# Haystack Pipeline

> Haystack NLP pipeline configuration for document processing and QA

- Skill: `a5c-ai/haystack-pipeline` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add a5c-ai/haystack-pipeline`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/a5c-ai/haystack-pipeline/raw
- Safety review: pending (external: skill-scanner PASS, skillspector PASS)
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: DevOps & Infra
- Author: a5c-ai (https://skillmd.com/u/a5c-ai)
- Updated: 2026-09-09
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/a5c-ai/haystack-pipeline

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# Haystack Pipeline Skill

## Capabilities

- Configure Haystack pipeline components
- Set up document stores and retrievers
- Implement reader/generator models
- Design custom pipeline graphs
- Configure preprocessing pipelines
- Implement evaluation pipelines

## Target Processes

- rag-pipeline-implementation
- intent-classification-system

## Implementation Details

### Core Components

1. **DocumentStores**: Elasticsearch, Weaviate, FAISS, etc.
2. **Retrievers**: BM25, Dense, Hybrid
3. **Readers/Generators**: Extractive and generative QA
4. **Preprocessors**: Document cleaning and splitting

### Pipeline Types

- Retrieval pipelines
- RAG pipelines
- Evaluation pipelines
- Indexing pipelines

### Configuration Options

- Component selection
- Pipeline graph design
- Document store backend
- Model selection
- Preprocessing settings

### Best Practices

- Modular pipeline design
- Proper preprocessing
- Evaluation integration
- Component versioning

### Dependencies

- haystack-ai
- farm-haystack (legacy)