Agentic Retreival for sub-queries generation

[radhgupta]

The service now generates multiple subqueries based on the original issue’s title and body, retrieves relevant issues and documents for each subquery, and aggregates them with deduplication. This approach increases the diversity and relevance of retrieved context, improving the quality of answers and suggestions.

1. GenerateSubqueriesAsync : Generates Subqueries using RAG agent. The number of subqueries depends on the length of the original query.
2. For each subqueries and original query we call SearchIssuesAsync and SearchDocumentsAsync to retrieve relevant issues and documents.
3. We Deduplicate the resultant issue and documents as they are added.
4. We call SendMessageQnaAsync to generate the Open AI response.

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[Copilot]

Pull Request Overview

This pull request enhances the retrieval process by generating multiple subqueries from the original issue details and aggregating deduplicated results for issues and documents. Key changes include:

• Adding a new method GenerateSubqueriesAsync to derive subqueries from prompts.
• Introducing configuration support for subqueries generation.
• Updating the OpenAiAnswerService to process results from multiple subqueries and merge them with the original query results.

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 3 out of 3 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

File	Description
tools/issue-labeler/src/IssueLabelerService/TraigeRag.cs	Adds the GenerateSubqueriesAsync method to generate subqueries.
tools/issue-labeler/src/IssueLabelerService/Configuration/RepositoryConfiguration.cs	Includes a new configuration property for subqueries prompt.
tools/issue-labeler/src/IssueLabelerService/Answers/OpenAiAnswerService.cs	Implements subquery handling, aggregation, deduplication, and updates result formatting.

[jeo02]

GitHub will ignore approval if I approve now and you make changes so LMK

[jsquire]

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	double scoreThreshold = double.Parse(_config.ScoreThreshold);
	double solutionThreshold = double.Parse(_config.SolutionThreshold);
	var scoreThreshold = double.Parse(_config.ScoreThreshold);
	var solutionThreshold = double.Parse(_config.SolutionThreshold);

[ShivangiReja]

Consider reducing the number of parameters passed to RetrieveAndAggregateSubqueryResults. Many of these values (like issueIndexName, documentIndexName, semantic names, field names, etc.) are already available via _config. Pulling them inside the method would improve readability and reduce boilerplate when calling the method.

[ShivangiReja]

Consider using your helper method AddUniqueItems here to keep deduplication consistent and reusable.

[ShivangiReja]

Consider extracting each step into a dedicated private method. This would significantly improve the readability and structure of the method. Something like:

// Step 1: Generate subqueries
var subqueries = await GenerateSubqueriesAsync(query, modelName);

// Step 2: Retrieve and dedupe subquery results
var (uniqueIssues, uniqueDocs) = await RetrieveResultsAsync(subqueries, top, scoreThreshold, labels);

// Step 3: Always include original query results
await AddOriginalQueryResultsAsync(query, top, scoreThreshold, labels, uniqueIssues, uniqueDocs);

[jsquire]

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	ModelName: config.AnswerModelName,
	IssueIndexName: config.IssueIndexName,
	IssueSemanticName: config.IssueSemanticName,
	IssueFieldName: config.IssueIndexFieldName,
	DocumentIndexName: config.DocumentIndexName,
	DocumentSemanticName: config.DocumentSemanticName,
	DocumentFieldName: config.DocumentIndexFieldName,
	Top: int.Parse(config.SourceCount),
	ScoreThreshold: double.Parse(config.ScoreThreshold),
	SolutionThreshold: double.Parse(config.SolutionThreshold),
	SubqueriesPromptTemplate: config.SubqueriesGenerationPrompt,
	SolutionInstructions: config.SolutionInstructions,
	SuggestionInstructions: config.SuggestionInstructions,
	SolutionUserPrompt: config.SolutionUserPrompt,
	SuggestionUserPrompt: config.SuggestionUserPrompt
	ModelName: config.AnswerModelName,
	IssueIndexName: config.IssueIndexName,
	IssueSemanticName: config.IssueSemanticName,
	IssueFieldName: config.IssueIndexFieldName,
	DocumentIndexName: config.DocumentIndexName,
	DocumentSemanticName: config.DocumentSemanticName,
	DocumentFieldName: config.DocumentIndexFieldName,
	Top: int.Parse(config.SourceCount),
	ScoreThreshold: double.Parse(config.ScoreThreshold),
	SolutionThreshold: double.Parse(config.SolutionThreshold),
	SubqueriesPromptTemplate: config.SubqueriesGenerationPrompt,
	SolutionInstructions: config.SolutionInstructions,
	SuggestionInstructions: config.SuggestionInstructions,
	SolutionUserPrompt: config.SolutionUserPrompt,
	SuggestionUserPrompt: config.SuggestionUserPrompt

[jsquire]

As a general convention, C# likes to indent line continuations. The named parameter use is wonderful for readability.

[jsquire]

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	string query = $"{issue.Title} {issue.Body}";
	var query = $"{issue.Title} {issue.Body}";

[jsquire]

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[jsquire]

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	var solution = highestScore >= _serviceConfiguration.SolutionThreshold;
	var isSolution = highestScore >= _serviceConfiguration.SolutionThreshold;

nit: C# convention is generally to name boolean instances using an is of has or similar prefix that invokes a "yes or no" connotation.

[jsquire]

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	string instructions, userPrompt;
	string instructions;
	string userPrompt;

nit: The current form is legal syntax, but generally our convention is to explicitly declare each on their own line.

[jsquire]

userPrompt = isSolution 
    ? _serviceConfiguration.SolutionUserPrompt, replacementsUserPrompt 
    : _serviceConfiguration.SuggestionUserPrompt, replacementsUserPrompt;

userPrompt = AzureSdkIssueLabelerService.FormatTemplate(userPrompt, replacementsUserPrompt, _logger);

Unless I'm misreading, the only difference in the if/else branches is the config parameter. I think we can simplify a bit.

[jsquire]

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	HashSet<Document> uniqueDocs
	)
	HashSet<Document> uniqueDocs)

nit: C# convention is generally to throw the closing parens on the same line as the last parameter.

[jsquire]

Looks good! Just a couple more C# discussion items and formatting nits.

[jsquire]

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	private readonly ServiceConfiguration _serviceConfiguration;
	private readonly ServiceConfiguration ServiceConfiguration;

This one gets inconsistently applied, but the _name pattern indicates a class-level variable. Since this is a member that is intended to be constant after the instance is created, we generally name these like we would a constant.

[jsquire]

nit: Can we move these to the first class members? Generally, C# conventions call for ordering by scope/visibility:

• const (which is static)
• static readonly
• static

and each type by visibility

• private
• protected
• internal
• public