Install dependencies
Run the following command in the project root directory to install the dependencies listed in requirements.txt:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Set up environment variables
Copy the .env_copy_this file and rename it to .env:

cp .env_copy_this .env

Then, open the .env file and add your OpenAI API key:

OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_api_key_here

Prepare data for retrieval
Place the .md files you want to search in the data folder.

Generate Embeddings
Run the scripts/generate_embeddings.py script to generate the embeddings from the .md files in the data folder. The embeddings and the mapping index files will be saved in the embeddings folder:

python scripts/generate_embeddings.py

Run tests
Run the test script to verify the functionality:

python scripts/test.py