Library / SDK
Retrieval & Memory
RAGatouille
1Easy 2state-of-the-art 3ColBERT 4retrieval 5for 6RAG
the six Ws · specification
W1
Who
Maintained by Answer.AI.
W2
What
Makes ColBERT late-interaction retrieval easy to use.
W3
Where
A Python library on your infrastructure.
W4
When
When you need stronger retrieval than plain embeddings.
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Why
Brings state-of-the-art ColBERT models to practical RAG.
W6
With
Python, a ColBERT model, and your documents.
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Watch
Community-maintained; open-source (Apache-2.0), library only. Runs locally; indexes and models stay on your machine.