diff --git a/metagpt/rag/engines/__init__.py b/metagpt/rag/engines/__init__.py
index 373181384..93699db88 100644
--- a/metagpt/rag/engines/__init__.py
+++ b/metagpt/rag/engines/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 """Engines init"""
 
 from metagpt.rag.engines.simple import SimpleEngine
+from metagpt.rag.engines.flare import FLAREEngine
 
-__all__ = ["SimpleEngine"]
+__all__ = ["SimpleEngine", "FLAREEngine"]
diff --git a/metagpt/rag/engines/flare.py b/metagpt/rag/engines/flare.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/metagpt/rag/factories/ranker.py b/metagpt/rag/factories/ranker.py
index f05599e15..15dc55bf9 100644
--- a/metagpt/rag/factories/ranker.py
+++ b/metagpt/rag/factories/ranker.py
@@ -3,18 +3,17 @@
 from llama_index.core.llms import LLM
 from llama_index.core.postprocessor import LLMRerank
 from llama_index.core.postprocessor.types import BaseNodePostprocessor
+from llama_index.postprocessor.colbert_rerank import ColbertRerank
 
 from metagpt.rag.factories.base import ConfigBasedFactory
-from metagpt.rag.schema import BaseRankerConfig, LLMRankerConfig
+from metagpt.rag.schema import BaseRankerConfig, ColbertRerankConfig, LLMRankerConfig
 
 
 class RankerFactory(ConfigBasedFactory):
     """Modify creators for dynamically instance implementation."""
 
     def __init__(self):
-        creators = {
-            LLMRankerConfig: self._create_llm_ranker,
-        }
+        creators = {LLMRankerConfig: self._create_llm_ranker, ColbertRerankConfig: self._create_colbert_ranker}
         super().__init__(creators)
 
     def get_rankers(self, configs: list[BaseRankerConfig] = None, **kwargs) -> list[BaseNodePostprocessor]:
@@ -28,6 +27,9 @@ class RankerFactory(ConfigBasedFactory):
         config.llm = self._extract_llm(config, **kwargs)
         return LLMRerank(**config.model_dump())
 
+    def _create_colbert_ranker(self, config: ColbertRerankConfig, **kwargs) -> LLMRerank:
+        return ColbertRerank(**config.model_dump())
+
     def _extract_llm(self, config: BaseRankerConfig = None, **kwargs) -> LLM:
         return self._val_from_config_or_kwargs("llm", config, **kwargs)
 
diff --git a/metagpt/rag/schema.py b/metagpt/rag/schema.py
index e98a6fc89..cacce3178 100644
--- a/metagpt/rag/schema.py
+++ b/metagpt/rag/schema.py
@@ -84,6 +84,12 @@ class LLMRankerConfig(BaseRankerConfig):
     )
 
 
+class ColbertRerankConfig(BaseRankerConfig):
+    model: str = Field(default="colbert-ir/colbertv2.0", description="Colbert model name.")
+    device: str = Field(default="cpu", description="Device to use for sentence transformer.")
+    keep_retrieval_score: bool = Field(default=False, description="Whether to keep the retrieval score in metadata.")
+
+
 class BaseIndexConfig(BaseModel):
     """Common config for index.
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 3e545d146..9bcd2a45b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ llama-index-readers-file==0.1.4
 llama-index-retrievers-bm25==0.1.3
 llama-index-vector-stores-faiss==0.1.1
 llama-index-vector-stores-elasticsearch==0.1.5
+llama-index-postprocessor-colbert-rerank==0.1.1
 chromadb==0.4.23
 loguru==0.6.0
 meilisearch==0.21.0