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title: TorchDocs Agent
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# TorchDocsAgent

> ℹ️ **The table at the very top is not part of the README** — it's the
> [Hugging Face Spaces](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/spaces-config-reference)
> config block (SDK, entrypoint, title). Spaces requires it as the file's first
> lines, so it can't be moved or removed; GitHub just draws it as a table. The
> real content starts here. (Details: [docs/deploy-hf-spaces.md](docs/deploy-hf-spaces.md).)

AI-powered chat agent for PyTorch — ask questions about the library, get code examples, and explore documentation through natural language. This is a personal project and is not official PyTorch team.

## Use it on Hugging Face Spaces

The agent runs as a live web app on Hugging Face Spaces — nothing to install:

**▶️ https://huggingface.co/spaces/eliezeravihail/torchdocs-agent**

Type a question in English and press **Ask** (or Enter):

- Answers are served instantly from content stored in the index, then the cited pages are **revalidated against the live docs** in the background — the index self-heals and the answer is corrected if the docs changed.
- Every answer lists the **exact documentation pages** it used as clickable citations, plus a link to the source license.
- Questions about implementation internals (source code) are **referred out** to GitHub / DeepWiki rather than guessed.

Try: *"How do I use torch.optim.SGD with momentum?"*, *"What LR schedulers are supported?"*, *"How do I build a CNN to classify images?"*

### Deploying your own Space

The repo **is** the Space: the YAML header above configures it, `app.py` is the entrypoint, and `requirements.txt` lists the dependencies. Every push to `main` auto-syncs to the Space via [`.github/workflows/sync-to-hf.yml`](.github/workflows/sync-to-hf.yml). Set these under the Space's **Settings → Variables and secrets**:

| secret | purpose |
|---|---|
| `NEON_URL` | Postgres connection string (holds vectors + pointers) |
| `TORCHDOCS_PROVIDER` | LLM provider, e.g. `openai-compat` (OpenRouter) |
| `OPENAI_COMPAT_BASE_URL` | e.g. `https://openrouter.ai/api/v1` |
| `OPENAI_COMPAT_API_KEY` | your OpenRouter key |
| `TORCHDOCS_OPENAI_COMPAT_MODEL` | comma-separated free model slugs (a fallback chain) |
| `GEMINI` / `GEMINI_API_KEY` | fallback provider key |

If the primary provider is unreachable or a free model is rate-limited, the app **self-heals** to the next model, then to any other provider that has a key — so one broken secret doesn't take the Space down. A push-triggered smoke test ([`.github/workflows/smoke-hf.yml`](.github/workflows/smoke-hf.yml)) asks the live Space a question after each deploy and fails if it can't answer. See [docs/deploy-hf-spaces.md](docs/deploy-hf-spaces.md) for the full walkthrough.

## Goals

- Answer natural-language questions about PyTorch APIs, concepts, and usage patterns — from "how do I use SGD?" through "what LR schedulers exist?" to "how do I build a network that detects cats?".
- Ground every answer in the official PyTorch documentation site, with clickable citations to the live pages used.
- Include illustrative code snippets drawn from the docs and tutorials (statically checked, not executed).
- When a question goes beyond the docs, say so honestly and point to where to look (source links, GitHub search) instead of guessing.
- Stay easy to run locally with minimal setup.

See [PLAN.md](PLAN.md) for the current roadmap and TODO list, and
[docs/](docs/README.md) for the design rationale and a per-package reference
(one doc per code package: `agent/`, `index/`, `ingest/`, `eval/`, `app/`,
`scripts/`).

## Results (measured, not asserted)

All numbers come from the project's own evaluation harness ([`eval/`](docs/eval/README.md)),
reproducible via the `Eval` workflow. Sample sizes are stated so nothing is
oversold — the judge set in particular is still small.

| Metric | Value | How it was measured |
|---|---|---|
| Corpus | **18,393 chunks / 4,517 pages** | Indexed pages across `core` (3,435), `vision` (535), `tutorials` (287), `audio` (260); [`eval/index_manifest.jsonl`](eval/index_manifest.jsonl). |
| Retrieval | **recall@8 0.79**, MRR 0.62 | Hybrid (pgvector + tsvector, RRF) over a 100-question set; [`eval/results/retrieval_v1.jsonl`](eval/results/retrieval_v1.jsonl). |
| Answer quality | **faithfulness 0.95**, relevance 1.00, citation 0.78 (overall 0.91) | LLM-as-judge on **n=10** (v1 sample) — a relative gauge, not an absolute grade (same-family judge; see [PLAN.md](PLAN.md) M4). |
| Latency | **p50 ≈ 6 s**, p95 51 s, max 78 s | End-to-end question→answer, n=10. The tail is free-tier LLM rate-limiting, not the retrieval pipeline. |

Two honest caveats worth keeping in view: the reranker was **removed** because
an ablation showed it didn't move retrieval (recall/MRR identical with and
without — [`retrieval_v1_norerank.jsonl`](eval/results/retrieval_v1_norerank.jsonl)),
and the latency tail is dominated by a single slow free-tier LLM call, which a
timeout+failover or a paid provider would cap.

## Building the index

One command crawls the docs site and embeds everything into Neon
(embeddings run locally on CPU, so only `NEON_URL` is needed in `.env`; must
run on a machine with open internet access):

```bash
pip install -e .
python scripts/build_index.py
```

Safe to interrupt: crawling skips unchanged pages, embedding skips chunks
already in the DB, and every batch commits — re-running continues where it
stopped. `--skip-crawl` re-embeds the existing snapshot; `--libraries
core,tutorials` limits the run to part of the seed list.