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[Docs] Proposal for a practical deep-search / retrieval debugging companion guide #50

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@onestardao

Hi, I’d like to suggest a practical companion resource that may be helpful for users dealing with deep-search and retrieval-heavy workflows.

The resource is the WFGY RAG 16 Problem Map, a framework-agnostic troubleshooting checklist focused on common downstream failure modes in LLM and retrieval pipelines.

Reference:
https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY/blob/main/ProblemMap/README.md

It focuses on the kinds of issues that often appear after the search system technically “works,” but results still feel unreliable, such as:

  • relevant material not being surfaced
  • stale or low-quality evidence dominating retrieval
  • chunking and embedding mismatch
  • ranking instability
  • context overload
  • grounded evidence present, but final answer still drifts
  • multi-step reasoning becoming inconsistent

I think this may be useful as a practical companion reference because users often need a structured way to reason about “why a search-backed answer failed,” not just how to run the system.

This Problem Map has already been referenced or integrated by several public RAG / LLM ecosystem projects, including:

  • RAGFlow
  • LlamaIndex
  • ToolUniverse (Harvard MIMS Lab)
  • Rankify
  • Multimodal RAG Survey (QCRI LLM Lab)

If this sounds useful, I’d be happy to open a small docs-only PR with concise wording and repo-style scope.

Thanks for your time.

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