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RAG Evaluation Metrics for Retrieval Quality: My Production Playbook

If your RAG app got worse after an embeddings or chunking change, grading answers won’t tell you why. Here’s a retrieval-first eval workflow: recall@k, MRR, citation accuracy, leakage tests, and a frozen offline corpus so regressions are real—not vibes.

September 14, 2026 11 min read
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