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## Agents
Two agentic flows are provided by haiku.rag:
- Simple QA Agent — a focused question answering agent
- Research MultiAgent — a multistep, analyzable research workflow
### Simple QA Agent
The simple QA agent answers a single question using the knowledge base. It retrieves relevant chunks, optionally expands context around them, and asks the model to answer strictly based on that context.
Key points:
- Uses a single `search_documents` tool to fetch relevant chunks
- Can be run with or without inline citations in the prompt (citations prefer
document titles when present, otherwise URIs)
- Returns a plain string answer
Python usage:
```python
from haiku.rag.client import HaikuRAG
from haiku.rag.qa.agent import QuestionAnswerAgent
client = HaikuRAG(path_to_db)
# Choose a provider and model (see Configuration for env defaults)
agent = QuestionAnswerAgent(
client=client,
provider="openai", # or "ollama", "vllm", etc.
model="gpt-4o-mini",
use_citations=False, # set True to bias prompt towards citing sources
)
answer = await agent.answer("What is climate change?")
print(answer)
```
### Research Graph
The research workflow is implemented as a typed pydanticgraph. It plans, searches (in parallel batches), evaluates, and synthesizes into a final report — with clear stop conditions and shared state.
```mermaid
---
title: Research graph
---
stateDiagram-v2
PlanNode --> SearchDispatchNode
SearchDispatchNode --> AnalyzeInsightsNode
AnalyzeInsightsNode --> DecisionNode
DecisionNode --> SearchDispatchNode
DecisionNode --> SynthesizeNode
SynthesizeNode --> [*]
```
Key nodes:
- Plan: builds up to 3 standalone subquestions (uses an internal presearch tool)
- Search (batched): answers subquestions using the KB with minimal, verbatim context
- Analyze: aggregates fresh insights, updates gaps, and suggests new sub-questions
- Decision: checks sufficiency/confidence thresholds and chooses whether to iterate
- Synthesize: generates a final structured report
Primary models:
- `SearchAnswer` — one per subquestion (query, answer, context, sources)
- `InsightRecord` / `GapRecord` — structured tracking of findings and open issues
- `InsightAnalysis` — output of the analysis stage (insights, gaps, commentary)
- `EvaluationResult` — insights, new questions, sufficiency, confidence
- `ResearchReport` — final report (title, executive summary, findings, conclusions, …)
CLI usage:
```bash
haiku-rag research "How does haiku.rag organize and query documents?" \
--max-iterations 2 \
--confidence-threshold 0.8 \
--max-concurrency 3 \
--verbose
```
Python usage (blocking result):
```python
from haiku.rag.client import HaikuRAG
from haiku.rag.research import (
PlanNode,
ResearchContext,
ResearchDeps,
ResearchState,
build_research_graph,
)
async with HaikuRAG(path_to_db) as client:
graph = build_research_graph()
question = "What are the main drivers and trends of global temperature anomalies since 1990?"
state = ResearchState(
context=ResearchContext(original_question=question),
max_iterations=2,
confidence_threshold=0.8,
max_concurrency=2,
)
deps = ResearchDeps(client=client)
result = await graph.run(
PlanNode(provider="openai", model="gpt-4o-mini"),
state=state,
deps=deps,
)
report = result.output
print(report.title)
print(report.executive_summary)
```
Python usage (streamed events):
```python
from haiku.rag.client import HaikuRAG
from haiku.rag.research import (
PlanNode,
ResearchContext,
ResearchDeps,
ResearchState,
build_research_graph,
stream_research_graph,
)
async with HaikuRAG(path_to_db) as client:
graph = build_research_graph()
question = "What are the main drivers and trends of global temperature anomalies since 1990?"
state = ResearchState(
context=ResearchContext(original_question=question),
max_iterations=2,
confidence_threshold=0.8,
max_concurrency=2,
)
deps = ResearchDeps(client=client)
async for event in stream_research_graph(
graph,
PlanNode(provider="openai", model="gpt-4o-mini"),
state,
deps,
):
if event.type == "log":
iteration = event.state.iterations if event.state else state.iterations
print(f"[{iteration}] {event.message}")
elif event.type == "report":
print("\nResearch complete!\n")
print(event.report.title)
print(event.report.executive_summary)
```