Astro Intelligence
Anchor

Cookbook

Practical recipes and patterns for building with anchor

Cookbook

Ready-to-use recipes that go beyond the basics. Each recipe is a self-contained guide with working code you can copy into your project.


  • Chatbot with Memory — Build a conversational chatbot with sliding-window memory, automatic eviction, and persistent facts.

  • RAG Pipeline — Complete Retrieval-Augmented Generation with dense retrieval, hybrid search, reranking, and provider-formatted output.

  • Document Ingestion — Ingest raw text and files, chunk with different strategies, enrich metadata, and index the results into a retriever.

  • Custom Retriever — Implement the Retriever protocol to create your own retriever and integrate it with ContextPipeline and HybridRetriever.

  • Evaluation Workflow — Evaluate retrieval quality with standard metrics and compare configurations using A/B testing with statistical significance.

  • Agent with Tools — Build an agent with custom tools, skills, and memory using the @tool decorator and SkillRegistry.

  • Production Patterns — Battle-tested patterns for deploying anchor in production: error handling, observability, performance tuning, and testing strategies.

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