deepeval-goodmem

GoodMem retrieval for DeepEval.

Every retrieval is a DeepEval retriever span, and a retrieval turns directly into an LLMTestCase with retrieval_context populated — which is what ContextualPrecisionMetric, ContextualRecallMetric, ContextualRelevancyMetric and FaithfulnessMetric actually read.

pip install deepeval-goodmem

Retrieve and evaluate

from deepeval import evaluate
from deepeval.metrics import ContextualRelevancyMetric, ContextualRecallMetric
from deepeval_goodmem import GoodMemRetriever, GoodMemRetrievalHealthMetric

retriever = GoodMemRetriever(space_name="docs", limit=5)   # credentials from the environment

result = retriever.search("how do I rotate an API key?")
answer = my_llm(result["hits"])                            # your generation step
expected = "…"                                             # your reference answer

case = retriever.to_test_case(result, actual_output=answer, expected_output=expected)

evaluate([case], [
    ContextualRelevancyMetric(),
    ContextualRecallMetric(),
    GoodMemRetrievalHealthMetric(),
])

ContextualRecallMetric and ContextualPrecisionMetric compare against a reference answer, so they need expected_output; without it DeepEval's evaluate() raises MissingTestCaseParamsError. ContextualRelevancyMetric and FaithfulnessMetric do not.

search() is decorated with @observe(type="retriever") and reports top_k and the embedder through update_retriever_span, so the call appears as a retriever span with its query, latency and results.

If you only need the context, retrieve() returns the chunk text directly:

context = retriever.retrieve("how do I rotate an API key?")   # list[str]

What search() returns

A retrieval that reported a problem and returned nothing is an empty hits with partial: True and a warning — never an exception, and never indistinguishable from "no matches".

The health metric

from deepeval import evaluate
from deepeval.metrics import ContextualRecallMetric
from deepeval_goodmem import GoodMemRetrievalHealthMetric

# cases: LLMTestCases built with retriever.to_test_case(...), as above
evaluate(cases, [ContextualRecallMetric(), GoodMemRetrievalHealthMetric()])

Every other RAG metric scores the content that came back, so a broken reranker and a thin corpus look identical: both are poor recall. GoodMemRetrievalHealthMetric reads the diagnostics to_test_case puts in metadata["goodmem"] and scores the retrieval itself — 1.0 clean, 0.0 degraded, with the server's status codes in reason and score_breakdown. No LLM, so it costs nothing and never flakes. A test case with no GoodMem metadata is skipped rather than failed.

Scores

GoodMem returns two different things in the same field:

So results keep the server's order and are never re-sorted; score_kind says which scale you have; and min_score is applied client-side, only to reranker scores. The server's relevance_threshold is never sent.

score_kind says what the server actually did, not what was configured. When reranker_id is set but the reranker fails, the server reports RERANKING_FAILED (and NOT_FOUND for a missing reranker) and still returns the vector-stage hits. Those hits are score_kind: "vector" with their raw vector scores, and min_score is not applied to them, so a reranker threshold cannot discard what the server returned; partial is True and statuses carries both codes. (0.2.1 labelled them "reranker", and live, with a missing reranker, min_score=0.0 returned none of the 3 hits the server sent.)

Even with a reranker the scale is model-dependent: on the same documents Voyage rerank-2.5 scored 0.27..0.93 and Jina jina-reranker-v3 scored -0.14..0.43. A min_score tuned for one empties the other, so when a threshold removes every hit the retriever warns and names the observed range. Calibrate min_score for the reranker you use; there is no default.

Filtering

retriever = GoodMemRetriever(space_name="docs", metadata_filter={"category": "billing"})
retriever.search("refunds", metadata_filter={"lang": "en", "archived": False})  # AND-ed per call

Each value is compared as its own type; the Python type picks the cast:

Pass the type your metadata stores. Live (v1.0.320), 0.2.1 sent {"flag": True} as AS TEXT = 'True', which the server accepts with HTTP 200 and matches nothing, so a boolean filter looked like "nothing stored"; and {"n": 5.0} as '5.0', which misses a stored 5. AS BOOLEAN and AS NUMERIC match both. None and any other type (lists, dicts, bytes, NaN, infinity) raise ValueError before a request rather than being turned into text that silently matches nothing.

Text values are quoted for the GoodMem filter grammar (backslash escaping, verified against a live server; control characters refused). For anything more complex, pass an expression directly with filter=....

Attaching to a space by name

GoodMemRetriever(space_name="docs", embedder_id="…")                     # reuse or fail
GoodMemRetriever(space_name="docs", embedder_id="…", create_space=True)  # or create it

Attach-by-name is idempotent reuse: an existing space whose embedder matches is reused; a different embedder is an error, because retrieving across mismatched embedders returns plausible-looking nonsense. An ambiguous name is an error too.

Credentials

From GOODMEM_BASE_URL and GOODMEM_API_KEY, or as constructor keywords:

GoodMemRetriever(space_name="docs", base_url="https://goodmem.example.com",
                 api_key="gm_…")

verify_ssl defaults to on and exists for a local server with a self-signed certificate only; no example here turns it off.

They are deliberately not model fields, so they cannot reach a model_dump(), a repr() or a trace payload.

Development

pip install -e ".[dev]"
ruff check src tests examples && mypy && pytest -m "not integration"

CI runs the same three on Python 3.10–3.13, then builds the sdist and wheel, imports the wheel in a clean virtualenv, and fails if a GoodMem API key (gm_ followed by 20 or more lowercase letters or digits) is anywhere in the tree.

The offline suite replays NDJSON captured from a live GoodMem server (v1.0.320) through the real SDK decoders, so the wire format is never invented. The live suite needs a server and is skipped without one:

GOODMEM_BASE_URL=… GOODMEM_API_KEY=… GOODMEM_EMBEDDER_ID=… \
  GOODMEM_RERANKER_ID=… SSL_CERT_FILE=/path/to/local-ca.pem \
  pytest -m integration

GOODMEM_RERANKER_ID is optional — the working-reranker test skips without it. For a local server with a self-signed certificate, point SSL_CERT_FILE at its CA so TLS verification stays on (GOODMEM_VERIFY_SSL=0 turns it off). GOODMEM_E2E_SPACE_PREFIX names the temporary test space (default deepeval-goodmem-e2e-), so its owner is recognisable on a shared server.

There is no default credential anywhere in this repository.

License

MIT