# Ragas: toolkit for evaluating LLM applications, README overview

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The README presents Ragas as a toolkit for measuring LLM and RAG application quality.

Source: https://github.com/vibrantlabsai/ragas

What it supplies: The README presents Ragas as a toolkit for measuring LLM and RAG application quality.

Useful for: - Score RAG pipelines with objective metrics.
- Generate test datasets for evaluation.

First action: - Run pip install ragas.
- Run ragas quickstart rag_eval to create an example project.

Prerequisites and limits: The README text read gives no version requirements.

- Only a RAG evaluation template is available; agent evals are listed as coming soon.
- Detailed usage is in the documentation, which was not read.

Source-documented: a badge names Apache-2.0. LLM-based metrics may call paid model APIs.

Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run.
Based on intro, features, installation, quickstart and licence badge README text; the documentation was not read. Nothing was installed or run.

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