I made a small tool to inspect retrieval results before feeding them into RAG
Summary
A developer created a small local tool for inspecting retrieval results from search providers like Brave, Serper, Tavily, and Exa before feeding them into a RAG pipeline, checking signals such as source diversity, duplicates, freshness, and SEO/GEO pollution risk.
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