[Feature Request]: Add RAG-Anything Studio, a standalone multimodal-aware Web UI

[devinlovekoala]

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Feature Request Description

A standalone Web UI module for RAG-Anything, tentatively named RAG-Anything Studio.

The goal is to provide a practical local-first interface for using and debugging RAG-Anything without changing the core RAG-Anything pipeline.

This Web UI would be implemented under a separate /raganything_studio directory and would follow the existing LightRAG Web UI interaction style, while adding RAG-Anything-specific multimodal capabilities.

What this feature adds

• Query interface adapted for multimodal RAG results
• Display of image evidence and other multimodal evidence where available
• Image preview support for knowledge graph nodes
• Enhanced settings page for configuring more API endpoints with more types of combinations, including VLM enhancements
• Conveniently configure data formats and storage methods
• A practical interface for local development, testing, and demonstration

Why this is useful

RAG-Anything extends LightRAG from text-centric RAG to multimodal document RAG. However, many multimodal-specific outputs are difficult to inspect through a text-only or graph-only interface.

A Web UI would help users:

• test RAG-Anything more easily
• inspect multimodal evidence during retrieval
• preview image-related nodes in the knowledge graph
• configure model providers and vector databases more conveniently
• demonstrate RAG-Anything capabilities to new users
• debug multimodal retrieval behavior without modifying the core framework

Design principle

This feature should be low-risk and optional.

It does not require changing the RAG-Anything core pipeline, storage schema, or existing APIs. The Studio code can be isolated under /raganything_studio, so users who do not need the Web UI are not affected.

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[jihadajUAEU]

Thanks for opening this. This request is very close to what I have been building with Ragstudio: a standalone local web workbench for inspecting and operating RAG-Anything / MinerU-style multimodal document pipelines.

Repo: https://github.com/jihadajUAEU/Ragstudio
Proof/docs site: https://ragstudio.dev/

The emphasis is the operator layer around the RAG pipeline, especially the parts that are hard to see from a text-only UI:

• document upload and indexing workflow
• parser warnings and extraction quality review
• chunk metadata inspection and search
• graph projection / evidence visibility
• retrieval traces, timings, reranker/context evidence
• quality gates before material is trusted by downstream answers
• static proof packets for public-safe demos and reproducible review

It is not intended to replace RAG-Anything core. The idea is to keep the web UI optional and standalone, while making the multimodal evidence path inspectable from parsed artifacts through retrieval and answer evidence. That seems aligned with the low-risk /raganything_studio direction described here.

If the maintainers are interested, I would be happy to align the adapter/runtime boundary with RAG-Anything conventions or contribute the relevant lessons from Ragstudio as a reference implementation.