Retrieval and knowledge

Haystack

Compose retrieval, generation, and agent pipelines from reusable components.

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Where it fits

What you can use it for

Python teams building search and document-answering systems.

Find relevant information and give AI applications useful context.

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What to check for your team

Measure retrieval quality with your own documents; deepset hosted products have separate terms.

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Licence and scope

Apache-2.0

The pinned repository licence is Apache-2.0, confirmed from its text even though GitHub reports no automatic classification. Hosted deepset products are separate.

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