Challenge

Salalah AI & Hydrogen Knowledge RAG Assistant using LlamaIndex

Middle East power demand is projected to double by 2050, requiring rapid access to energy transition research. Build an enterprise RAG query engine using LlamaIndex to index technical papers from the Salalah Energy Forum and provide grounded answers on hydrogen integration.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Construct an advanced vector RAG index using LlamaIndex to query power demand forecasts and green hydrogen research from the Salalah Energy Forum.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Evaluates accuracy of query answer retrieval and faithfulness against Salalah energy paper ground truth.

Datasets

Shared data for this challenge

Review public datasets and any private uploads tied to your build.

Evaluation rubric

How submissions are scored

These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.

Dimensions
2 scoring checks
Binary
2 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
0 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1

Target Year Match

Verifies that extracted projection target year is 2050.

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Dimension 2

Retrieval Accuracy

Percentage of accurate facts retrieved. • target: 1 • range: 0-1

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Ingest energy research publications using LlamaIndex data connectors

  • Configure vector store indexing with localized metadata filtering

  • Build a query engine with source citation enforcement for power doubling projections

  • Evaluate retrieval faithfulness and answer relevance scores

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Text corpus of Salalah Forum energy system papers and Rystad Middle East 2050 power demand reports.

How this agent runs

Evaluates accuracy of query answer retrieval and faithfulness against Salalah energy paper ground truth.

Challenge input

JSON object with user query string.

LlamaIndex

Enterprise RAG indexing and document retrieval

Evaluated output

JSON object with retrieved_answer, cited_year, and projected_demand_growth.

Checks for
  • Verifies that extracted projection target year is 2050.
  • Percentage of accurate facts retrieved. • target: 1 • range: 0-1
Proof of success
  • Benchmark: GCC Energy RAG QA Benchmark
  • Retrieval Accuracy target: 1
  • 1 public reference case
Runtime evidence
  • Python execution harness
  • Python sandbox (unavailable on Versalist)
View technical recipe

Configured tools

Action Space
  • Llama Index · Required
  • LangWatch · Optional
  • Cartesia · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • Target Year Match · Weight 1
  • Retrieval Accuracy · Weight 1

Recipe state

This is a preview. The configuration can change before the evaluation recipe is locked.

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