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Evaluation metric example: RAG document relevance

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by David Roberts ✓ · 4,349 views · created 2025-05-21 · Engineering, AI Summarization

Needs changes. This template uses 1 thing(s) that n8n 3.0 removes: AI Agent v1 (old agent modes). 1 breaking item(s) found. Static check, last run 2026-10-19.

What this workflow does

This AI workflow has 19 nodes and runs manually, when you click “Execute workflow” (plus 2 other triggers). Along the way it connects Evaluation, Google Sheets, Embeddings OpenAI and OpenAI and 1 more.

How it runs

Trigger: Manually, when you click “Execute workflow” (plus 2 other triggers).

  1. Get dataset (Google Sheets): uses Google Sheets
  2. AI Agent: runs an AI agent, with model: OpenAI Chat Model; 1 tool (Simple Vector Store)
  3. Match chat format (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 1 field: chatInput
  4. Remove Duplicates: removes duplicate items
  5. Evaluating? (Evaluation): check if evaluating
  6. Simple Vector Store: stores documents in the Simple vector store, with embeddings: Embeddings OpenAI; document loader: Default Data Loader
  7. Extract documents (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 1 field: documents
  8. Calculate doc relevance metric (OpenAI): uses OpenAI
  9. Set metrics (Evaluation): set metrics

Services it uses

EvaluationGoogle SheetsEmbeddings OpenAIOpenAIOpenAI Chat Model

Before you upgrade to n8n 3.0

1 thing in this workflow is removed in n8n 3.0. Fix it before you upgrade:

  • AI Agent v1 (old agent modes) in AI Agent (v1.9): replace with Latest AI Agent node (Tools Agent). For SQL Agent, use a Postgres or MySQL tool with a recent AI Agent.
Removed in 3.0Replace with
AI Agent v1 (old agent modes)
AI Agent (v1.9)
Latest AI Agent node (Tools Agent). For SQL Agent, use a Postgres or MySQL tool with a recent AI Agent.

Nodes used (15)

From the author

AI evaluation in n8n This is a template for n8n's evaluation feature. Evaluation is a technique for getting confidence that your AI workflow performs reliably, by running a test dataset containing different inputs through the workflow. By calculating a metric…

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