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R2R

SoTA production-ready AI retrieval system. Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with a RESTful API.

From SciPhi-AI·Updated June 12, 2026·View on GitHub·

Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with a RESTful API. The project is written primarily in Python, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2024. It has gained significant community traction with 7,884 stars and 636 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: artificial-intelligence, large-language-models, python, question-answering, rag.

Latest release: v3.6.5
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About

R2R is an advanced AI retrieval system supporting Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with production-ready features. Built around a RESTful API, R2R offers multimodal content ingestion, hybrid search, knowledge graphs, and comprehensive document management.

R2R also includes a Deep Research API, a multi-step reasoning system that fetches relevant data from your knowledgebase and/or the internet to deliver richer, context-aware answers for complex queries.

Usage

python
# Basic search results = client.retrieval.search(query="What is DeepSeek R1?") # RAG with citations response = client.retrieval.rag(query="What is DeepSeek R1?") # Deep Research RAG Agent response = client.retrieval.agent( message={"role":"user", "content": "What does deepseek r1 imply? Think about market, societal implications, and more."}, rag_generation_config={ "model": "anthropic/claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219", "extended_thinking": True, "thinking_budget": 4096, "temperature": 1, "top_p": None, "max_tokens_to_sample": 16000, }, )

Getting Started

bash
# Quick install and run in light mode pip install r2r export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-... python -m r2r.serve # Or run in full mode with Docker # git clone git@github.com:SciPhi-AI/R2R.git && cd R2R # export R2R_CONFIG_NAME=full OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-... # docker compose -f compose.full.yaml --profile postgres up -d

For detailed self-hosting instructions, see the self-hosting docs.

Demo

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/173f7a1f-7c0b-4055-b667-e2cdcf70128b

Using the API

1. Install SDK & Setup

bash
# Install SDK pip install r2r # Python # or npm i r2r-js # JavaScript

2. Client Initialization

python
from r2r import R2RClient client = R2RClient(base_url="http://localhost:7272")
javascript
const { r2rClient } = require('r2r-js'); const client = new r2rClient("http://localhost:7272");

3. Document Operations

python
# Ingest sample or your own document client.documents.create(file_path="/path/to/file") # List documents client.documents.list()

Key Features

  • 📁 Multimodal Ingestion: Parse .txt, .pdf, .json, .png, .mp3, and more
  • 🔍 Hybrid Search: Semantic + keyword search with reciprocal rank fusion
  • 🔗 Knowledge Graphs: Automatic entity & relationship extraction
  • 🤖 Agentic RAG: Reasoning agent integrated with retrieval
  • 🔐 User & Access Management: Complete authentication & collection system

Community & Contributing

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