RAGNARDoc

RAGNARDoc (RAG Native Automatic Reingestion for Documents) is a tool that runs natively on a developer workstation and automatically ingests local documents into various Retrieval Augmented Generation indexes. It is designed as a companion app for workstation RAG applications which would benefit from maintaining an up-to-date view of documents hosted natively on a user's workstation.

Quick Start

pip install ragnardoc
# Initialize ragnardoc on your system
ragnardoc init
# Add a directory to be ingested
ragnardoc add ~/Documents
# Run an ingestion
ragnardoc run
# Start as a background service
ragnardoc start & disown

Configuration

The configuration for RAGNARDoc is managed by a yaml file. The default location is $HOME/.ragnardoc/config.yaml, but can be overloaded with the RAGNARDOC_HOME environment variable. All default values can be found in config.yaml in the codebase.

Configuring

To initialize your RAGNARDoc config, do the following:

mkdir -p ~/.ragnardoc
echo "scraping:
  roots:
    # Fill in with the list of directories to ingest
    - ~/Desktop
    - ~/Documents
" > ~/.ragnardoc/config.yaml

Once done, you can add entries to your config.yaml to add supported ingestion plugins (see below).

Ingestion Plugins

RAGNARDoc operates with a plugin model for connecting to applications to ingest docs. Each plugin is responsible for connecting to a given app. RAGNARDoc's native ingestion capabilities are:

AnythingLLM Desktop

To configure a connection to AnythingLLM, follow these steps:

1. Download and install the desktop app from their site: https://anythingllm.com/desktop
2. In the app, go to settings (wrench icon in the bottom panel of the left-hand sidebar)
3. Under Admin -> General Settings, toggle on Enable network discovery and wait for the app to reload
4. Under Tools, select Developer API
5. Create a new API Key
6. Add the plugin to your config (default location $HOME/.ragnardoc/config.yaml)

ingestion:
  plugins:
    - type: anything-llm
      config:
        apikey: <YOUR API KEY>

Open WebUI

To configure a connection to Open WebUI, follow these steps:

1. Follow the Getting Started guide to get Open WebUI running locally. TLDR:

pip install open_webui
# Run without login
WEBUI_AUTH=False open-webui serve

2. Open the UI in a browser tab (http://localhost:8080 by default)
3. Click on the user icon (top right) and select Settings
4. Click Account on the left panel of the settings view
5. Click Show (right side) for API keys
6. Click + Create new secret key under API Key to create a new API Key
7. Click the copy icon to copy the api key
8. Add the plugin to your config (default location $HOME/.ragnardoc/config.yaml)

ingestion:
  plugins:
    - type: open-webui
      config:
        apikey: <YOUR API KEY>

TODO

• Per-ingestor inclusion / exclusion
• Abstract scrapers to allow non-local scraping