# rewrite_retrieve_read This template implemenets a method for query transformation (re-writing) in the paper [Query Rewriting for Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.14283.pdf) to optimize for RAG. ## Environment Setup Set the `OPENAI_API_KEY` environment variable to access the OpenAI models. ## Usage To use this package, you should first have the LangChain CLI installed: ```shell pip install -U langchain-cli ``` To create a new LangChain project and install this as the only package, you can do: ```shell langchain app new my-app --package rewrite_retrieve_read ``` If you want to add this to an existing project, you can just run: ```shell langchain app add rewrite_retrieve_read ``` And add the following code to your `server.py` file: ```python from rewrite_retrieve_read.chain import chain as rewrite_retrieve_read_chain add_routes(app, rewrite_retrieve_read_chain, path="/rewrite-retrieve-read") ``` (Optional) Let's now configure LangSmith. LangSmith will help us trace, monitor and debug LangChain applications. LangSmith is currently in private beta, you can sign up [here](https://smith.langchain.com/). If you don't have access, you can skip this section ```shell export LANGCHAIN_TRACING_V2=true export LANGCHAIN_API_KEY= export LANGCHAIN_PROJECT= # if not specified, defaults to "default" ``` If you are inside this directory, then you can spin up a LangServe instance directly by: ```shell langchain serve ``` This will start the FastAPI app with a server is running locally at [http://localhost:8000](http://localhost:8000) We can see all templates at [http://127.0.0.1:8000/docs](http://127.0.0.1:8000/docs) We can access the playground at [http://127.0.0.1:8000/rewrite_retrieve_read/playground](http://127.0.0.1:8000/rewrite_retrieve_read/playground) We can access the template from code with: ```python from langserve.client import RemoteRunnable runnable = RemoteRunnable("http://localhost:8000/rewrite_retrieve_read") ```