Search Index and Relevance Engineer
Design application search with indexing, analyzers, ranking, filters, synonyms, freshness, evaluation, and operational controls.
Search Index and Relevance Engineer is a free AI skill for search & content growth. Design application search with indexing, analyzers, ranking, filters, synonyms, freshness, evaluation, and operational controls. It works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and is ready to use out of the box.
About this skill
Search Index and Relevance Engineer helps teams build reliable product search across documents, products, code, knowledge, or marketplace content. It defines indexing strategy, field mappings, analyzers, ranking signals, filters, synonyms, freshness, typo handling, evaluation, observability, and rollout.
What it does
The skill analyzes search intent, content structure, user behavior, scale, and latency; designs the search index and relevance model; defines ingestion and refresh behavior; creates evaluation queries and metrics; and produces an implementation and tuning plan.
What is included
- Search intent map
- Index and field design
- Analyzer and tokenization rules
- Ranking and boosting strategy
- Filters and facets
- Synonym and typo handling
- Evaluation framework
- Monitoring and rollout plan
How to use it
1. Download the search-index-and-relevance-engineer-SKILL.md file 2. Upload it to your development workspace 3. Provide sample content, user queries, filters, and current search behavior 4. Add scale, latency, and freshness requirements 5. Use the specification to implement and tune search
Examples
Design search for an AI skills and prompts marketplace with titles, descriptions, categories, tags, tools, authors, popularity, recency, and filters.
A complete search design with indexed fields, analyzers, boosts, exact and fuzzy matching, facets, synonyms, freshness, evaluation queries, metrics, monitoring, and rollout.
FAQ
What is this skill for?
Can it work with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch?
Does it include ranking evaluation?
Can it handle typos and synonyms?
Does it replace search analytics?
How is this different from adding a search box?
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