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title: Guides
description: Complete a specific Sci RAG Kit task, from domain specialization to deployment and operations.
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# Guides

Each guide starts from an outcome. Use the reference section when you need an exact command, field, or contract.

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[<span class="srag-row__title">Bring your own domain</span><span class="srag-row__copy">Replace the ontology, prompts, source manifest, and seed questions while keeping the pipeline testable.</span>](bring-your-own-domain.md){ .srag-row }

[<span class="srag-row__title">Run an open-access campaign</span><span class="srag-row__copy">Discover DOI candidates, resolve explicit rights through Unpaywall, and download only verified direct PDFs into a manifest.</span>](campaigns.md){ .srag-row }

[<span class="srag-row__title">Evaluate your pipeline</span><span class="srag-row__copy">Run retrieval ablations and judged-answer evaluation, compare reports, and calibrate the judge.</span>](evaluation.md){ .srag-row }

[<span class="srag-row__title">Extend the seams</span><span class="srag-row__copy">Add a parser, corpus collector, reranker, model provider, or authentication backend without creating a plug-in framework.</span>](extend.md){ .srag-row }

[<span class="srag-row__title">Operations</span><span class="srag-row__copy">Back up, restore, snapshot, delete, garbage-collect, and re-embed a changing corpus.</span>](operations.md){ .srag-row }

[<span class="srag-row__title">Deploy on Google Cloud</span><span class="srag-row__copy">Provision Cloud SQL and Cloud Run from the included Terraform and verify the running service.</span>](deploy-gcp.md){ .srag-row }

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