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rank-llm-verify

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Use when validating rank_llm artifacts after rerank, retrieve-cache, or related CLI workflows. Checks JSONL integrity, TREC formatting, candidate shape, invocation-history structure, and duplicate query identifiers. Wraps rank-llm view plus custom assertions.

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rank_llm Verify

Validates stored RankLLM artifacts for correctness and structural consistency.

When to Use

  • After rank-llm rerank
  • After rank-llm retrieve-cache
  • Before using rerank outputs for evaluate or analyze
  • When comparing artifacts across models or prompt templates

What It Checks

JSONL Integrity

  • Every line is valid JSON
  • No empty files
  • No truncated or malformed records

Request Input

  • Every record has query and candidates
  • Every record has at least one candidate
  • Candidate entries expose either doc or text

Rerank Output

  • Every record has query and candidates
  • Every candidate has docid, score, and doc
  • No duplicate query identifiers when qid values are present

Invocation History

  • Top-level file is a JSON list
  • Each record has an invocations_history list
  • Every invocation entry is object-shaped

TREC Output

  • Every non-empty line has 6 columns
  • Rank field is an integer
  • Score field is numeric

Usage

Run the verification script:

bash .claude/skills/rank-llm-verify/scripts/verify.sh <artifact-path> [artifact-type]

Supported artifact types:

  • request-input
  • rerank-output
  • invocations-history
  • trec-output

If no artifact type is provided, the script attempts to auto-detect it with rank-llm view.

Verification Script

See scripts/verify.sh for the runnable verification wrapper.

Gotchas

  • rank-llm validate rerank checks input contracts before execution. The verify script checks stored output artifacts after execution.
  • rank-llm view only detects supported artifact families. If a file is not one of those shapes, pass the artifact type manually or inspect the file directly.
  • A rerank JSONL file can be structurally valid and still be low quality. Use evaluate and analyze for score and response diagnostics.