GSoC 2026 Midterm Update: Improving Evaluation and Retrieval for the Jenkins AI Chatbot

Hello everyone! I’m Mallikarjun G D, and this is my midterm update for my GSoC 2026 project, Continue AI-Powered Chatbot for Quick Access to Jenkins Resources. In my community bonding blog, I outlined three main areas for the coding period: an LLM-as-Judge evaluation pipeline, GraphRAG-based retrieval, and a Build Failure Diagnosis Agent.