# grounded-rag-mcp

> An MCP server that gives any LLM host grounded, cited retrieval over your own documents — hybrid BM25 + dense retrieval, cross-encoder reranking, and built-in eval.

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/grounded-rag-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Chetan C
- homepage: https://github.com/chetan1521/grounded-rag-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/chetan1521/grounded-rag-mcp
- version: 0.1.0
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: embeddings, hybrid-search, llm, mcp, rag, reranking, retrieval
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:grounded-rag-mcp

### Description (declared)

# grounded-rag-mcp

An **MCP server that gives any LLM host grounded, cited retrieval over your own documents** — hybrid retrieval (BM25 + dense), cross-encoder reranking, citations, and a built-in eval harness.

> Point it at a folder of documents. Your MCP host (Claude Desktop, an IDE, a custom agent) can then `search` and `answer` over them — grounded in the real text, with citations, and an honest "not in the documents" path.

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## Why

Most RAG-over-MCP examples are toys. This one is built production-flavored:

- **Hybrid retrieval** — BM25 (exact terms) + dense (semantics), fused with Reciprocal Rank Fusion.
- **Cross-encoder reranking** — precision on the top candidates without blowing latency.
- **Grounding + citations** — answers cite their sources; if the answer isn't in the docs, it says so.
- **Built-in eval** — measure retrieval quality (recall@k, MRR, hit-rate), not just vibes.
- **Local-first** — the default path runs with no external services or API keys.
- **Both transports** — stdio and Streamable HTTP.

## Status

🚧 Early development. Building in public, phase by phase (see `PROJECT_REQUIREMENTS.md`).

- [x] Phase 0 — scaffold, packaging, CI
- [x] Phase 1 — core retrieval (chunk → embed → BM25 + dense → RRF)
- [x] Phase 2 — MCP server (stdio) with `ingest` / `search`
- [x] Phase 3 — rerank + grounding + `answer` (via MCP sampling)
- [x] Phase 4 — tests, types, docs, resource + prompt
- [x] Phase 5 — Streamable HTTP transport + `evaluate_retrieval`
- [ ] Phase 6 — publish to PyPI

## Install

```bash
pip install grounded-rag-mcp            # lean, local-first default (no torch)
pip install "grounded-rag-mcp[st]"      # + sentence-transformers for semantic embeddings & reranking
```

## Tools

| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| `ingest_documents` | Chunk, embed, and index files or …

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- data.vector-search (1, declared)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/grounded-rag-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-09T16:25:01.298Z)

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