The README had never been customized after cloning the
docs-mcp-template — title said "docs-mcp-template" and it read as
the template's generic introduction with no mention of EPA PPLS,
the Bayer scraper, the ~4k label corpus, or the production deploy.
Replace with a crop-chem-docs-specific README that covers:
- Corpus inventory: 4,159 indexed pages (91 Bayer + 4,068 EPA PPLS)
- MCP tool catalog with crop_chem_api_lessons specifics
- Eval baseline from eval/results/with_rerank.md showing
hybrid+rerank wins (MRR 0.672) over BM25-only (0.544) and that
hybrid-without-rerank actively HURTS (0.114) — same pattern
seed-mcp found independently
- Note that the deployed rerank was silently failing through
2026-05-25 due to the llama-rerank Docker network gotcha;
fixed and re-running eval is on the followup list
- Quick-start commands
- Repo layout reference
- Infrastructure: registry, embedder pool, shared llama-rerank
sidecar, PRODUCT_NAME=crop_chem
- Cross-link to the sibling seed-mcp project
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
justin