- name
- skill-for-ragflow
- description
- Operate RAGFlow v0.25.x deployments through the bundled Node CLI and API client. Use when user needs to manage RAGFlow datasets, documents, uploads, parsing, chunks, retrieval, chat assistants, chat sessions, agents, agent sessions, embedded website access, metadata filters, model discovery, system settings, or API diagnostics. Also use when the user asks about knowledge bases, document chunking, vector retrieval, embed code, or RAG workflows and the current context explicitly involves a RAGFlow server or deployment.
- version
- 1.2.0
- metadata
- openclaw
- requires
- bins
- env
- primaryEnv
- RAGFLOW_API_KEY
- homepage
- https://github.com/LunarCache/ragflow-skill
RAGFlow Skill
Use this skill to operate RAGFlow through scripts/ragflow.js. The CLI wraps the full v0.25.x REST API - every action goes through node {baseDir}/scripts/ragflow.js <command> [options]. Prefer --json on any command when the output will be parsed or chained into another step.
Requirements
- Set
RAGFLOW_URLandRAGFLOW_API_KEYin the environment or this skill's.env. - Use Node.js to run bundled scripts.
- Set
RAGFLOW_WEB_TOKENonly whenlist-modelsneeds a web-session token for/v1/llm/my_llms. - Tune chunk deletion retries only when needed with
RAGFLOW_DELETE_CHUNK_RETRIESandRAGFLOW_DELETE_CHUNK_RETRY_DELAY_MS. - Tune the chunk deletion diagnostic script only when needed with
RAGFLOW_REPRO_TIMEOUT_MS,RAGFLOW_REPRO_DELETE_RETRIES,RAGFLOW_REPRO_DELETE_RETRY_DELAY_MS, andRAGFLOW_REPRO_EMBEDDING_MODEL.
Quick Command Reference
| Scenario | Commands |
|---|---|
| Knowledge base setup | create-dataset, list-datasets, get-dataset, update-dataset, delete-datasets |
| Document ingestion | upload-documents, list-documents, get-document, update-document, delete-documents, metadata-summary |
| Parsing & chunking | start-parsing, stop-parsing, wait-parsing, list-chunks, add-chunk, update-chunk, delete-chunks |
| Direct retrieval | retrieve |
| Chat assistant | create-chat, list-chats, get-chat, update-chat, patch-chat, delete-chats |
| Chat sessions | create-session, list-sessions, delete-sessions, chat, chat-session |
| Agent | create-agent, list-agents, get-agent, update-agent, delete-agents |
| Agent sessions | create-agent-session, list-agent-sessions, delete-agent-sessions, agent-chat |
| Embedded website access | list-system-tokens, create-system-token, delete-system-token, embed-code, embed-info, embed-chat, embed-agent-chat |
| Model discovery | list-models |
| System | system-version, get-log-levels, set-log-level |
Common Workflows
Full RAG pipeline (upload -> parse -> retrieve)
create-dataset --name "My KB" --chunk-method naiveupload-documents --dataset <id> --files ./doc1.pdf ./doc2.txtstart-parsing --dataset <id> --doc-ids <doc_id1> <doc_id2>wait-parsing --dataset <id> --doc-ids <doc_id1> <doc_id2>retrieve --question "What is X?" --datasets <id>
Chat assistant with sessions
create-chat --name "Q&A" --datasets <id> --llm-id qwen-turbo@Tongyi-Qianwencreate-session --chat <chat_id>chat-session --chat <chat_id> --session <session_id> --question "Hello"
Agent workflow
create-agent --title "Assistant" --dsl @agent_dsl.jsoncreate-agent-session --agent <agent_id>agent-chat --agent <agent_id> --session <session_id> --question "Hello"
agent-chat is streaming by default. Use --stream false when you need the final JSON result in one response.
Embedded website access
embed-code --chat <chat_id> --type fullscreenorembed-code --agent <agent_id> --type widgetembed-info --chat <chat_id>orembed-info --agent <agent_id>embed-chat --chat <chat_id> --question "Hello"orembed-agent-chat --agent <agent_id> --question "Hello"
embed-chat automatically creates the embedded chatbot session when --session is omitted. RAGFlow's shared-site route only creates a session and returns the prologue on the first no-session request, so the CLI bootstraps session_id first and then sends the real question.
Workflow Decision Guide
The first step in any RAGFlow operation is resolving the target resource ID. After that, choose the right path:
- Authoring or debugging a custom agent DSL? -> Read references/AGENT_GUIDE.md - it is a self-contained guide to the current RAGFlow agent DSL schema and includes minimal examples.
- Need CLI syntax or option details? -> Read references/COMMANDS.md - it's organized by workflow scenario with full option tables.
- Editing client code or checking request/response shapes? -> Read references/API.md - it has code examples for every
RagflowClientmethod. - A command failed? -> Read references/TROUBLESHOOTING.md - common errors with causes and fixes.
- Formatting output for the user? -> Read references/REFERENCE.md - consistent response templates and status labels.
Key Constraints
- Destructive deletes need confirmation. RAGFlow deletes are immediate and irreversible. Confirm before running
delete-datasets,delete-documents,delete-chunks,delete-chats,delete-sessions, ordelete-agents- unless the resource is a temporary artifact you created in the same workflow and the user asked you to clean up. - Upload and parsing are separate steps. RAGFlow does not auto-parse on upload because different documents may need different chunk methods. Upload first, adjust config if needed, then start parsing explicitly.
- Preserve user-uploaded filenames. RAGFlow stores the multipart
filenameas the document name. If a user attachment is materialized as a task ID or temporary path, pass the original filename inline:upload-documents --files <original-name>=<path>. - Use v0.25.x route shapes from the references. The RAGFlow API has changed between versions. The routes and payloads in the reference docs match v0.25.x - inventing fallback payloads will produce errors on real servers.
- Tenant model identifiers use the
model@providerformat. When creating datasets with--embedding-modelor chat assistants with--llm-id, the server expects the full identifier, for exampletext-embedding-v4@Tongyi-Qianwenorqwen-turbo@Tongyi-Qianwen, not a numeric model row ID. Uselist-modelsto discover model names and providers. - Chat sessions use the API-key SDK route.
chat-sessionposts to/api/v1/chats/{chat_id}/completionswithsession_idin the body. This is the v0.25.x API-key route - the login-session frontend route is intentionally avoided. - Embedded access uses beta tokens and embedded sessions.
embed-code,embed-info,embed-chat, andembed-agent-chatuse the shared-site/api/v1/chatbots/*or/api/v1/agentbots/*routes. If--betais not supplied, the CLI reuses the first/api/v1/system/tokensitem withbetaor creates one. For chatbot completions, the CLI auto-bootstrapssession_idunless--sessionis supplied. - Treat embed auth material as sensitive output. System tokens,
betavalues, and embed URLs or iframe HTML containingauth=are operational secrets. Use them when needed for the task, but do not print the full values back to the user unless the user explicitly asks for them. - Embed URL generation assumes a public RAGFlow origin.
embed-codeuses--originwhen supplied; otherwise it falls back toRAGFLOW_URL. When the API base URL and the public web origin differ, pass--originexplicitly so the generated iframe points at the actual shared-site page. - Prefer the current Agent DSL schema from
AGENT_GUIDE.md. In practice, hand-authored agents should includecomponents,history,path,retrieval,variables,globals, andgraph, plusgraph.nodes[].data.namefor every component-backed node. - Iteration agents should iterate over a real list output. When an upstream
Agentproduces loop items, prefer an object-shaped structured output such as{"items":[...]}and pointIteration.params.items_refatagent:0@structured.items. Start fromreferences/examples/agents/04-iteration-agent.json. - Chunk deletion may need retries. The v0.25.0 server can return
rm_chunk deleted chunks 0, expect Ndue to document-store refresh lag even when the chunk exists. The CLI handles this automatically - it retries after confirming the chunk is still visible via exact ID lookup. If retries still fail, runscripts/repro-delete-chunks.jsfor a clean diagnosis.
Output Format
When presenting results to the user, follow the templates in references/REFERENCE.md. Key conventions:
- Use a two-layer output model. For execution, chaining, and parsing, prefer the CLI's raw
--jsonoutput. For the final user-facing response, convert that raw result into a concise summary that follows the reference templates instead of pasting the CLI payload verbatim. - 3+ items with attributes -> Table, abbreviating long IDs
- Sequential steps -> Numbered list
- Parsing status -> Use labels:
UNSTART,RUNNING,CANCEL,DONE,FAIL - Search results -> Table with similarity scores, content as quote blocks
- Embed/token operations -> Summarize what was generated or fetched; redact
token,beta, and anyauth=query value unless the user explicitly asks for the secret - Errors -> Show code and human-readable message
For embed and token-related commands, apply these response rules:
- Use the CLI result internally, but do not mirror the raw JSON back to the user by default.
- Lead with the operational outcome: what resource was targeted, what mode was used, whether a token was reused or created, and whether a session was created or reused.
- Only include the minimum secret material needed to complete the user's request. If the user did not explicitly ask for the value, redact it.
- If the user needs copy-paste embed material, provide it only when explicitly requested and call out that it contains sensitive auth data.