PhantomDevs - India Runs 2026

Setup Instructions

NOTE: All Paths are POXIS-style paths (delimited by /)
that will work in Linux and BSD based Operating Systems.

In Windows: Use \\ as delimiter in paths.

1. Cloning the Repository

Clone the repository using the command below.

git clone https://github.com/the-visible-ghost/ir26.git

Change current working directory to the repository root using the command below.

cd ir26

2. Creating a virtual environment.

If you DON'T already have a .venv (python virtual environment)

Create a Python Virtual Environment using the command below -

python -m venv .venv

4. Activate the virtual environment

Source activate.bat or activate.fish or activate.zsh etc file based on your shell.

source .venv/bin/activate

5. Installing dependencies

Run the command below to install required dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Running the ranker

python rank.py --candidates ./candidates.jsonl --out ./submission.csv