Knowledge Agent

AI Toolkit • knowledge_agent • Professional

Intelligent conversational agent that searches knowledge bases and provides grounded answers

Overview

The Knowledge Agent is a conversational AI that searches your knowledge collections to answer user questions. It engages in natural conversation, searches when needed, and provides answers backed by source information.

How It Works

Understand Question: The agent analyzes the conversation to understand what the user is asking
Search Knowledge: Generates search queries and looks through your selected knowledge collections
Generate Answer: Creates a response based on the information found, including source citations
Continue Conversation: Can ask follow-up questions, handle greetings, or route to other nodes when appropriate

Context Hint

Optionally provide guidance for the agent's search strategy (e.g., "Focus on billing information" or "Look for troubleshooting steps").

Configuration Fields

Context Hint (Optional) handlebars

Optional context to guide the agent.

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Supports Handlebars syntax:

{{variable_name}}

Knowledge Collections knowledge_collections Required

Select one or more knowledge collections to search.

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Select one or more knowledge collections to search. Collections are managed in the Knowledge section.

AI Configuration agent_settings

Configure the AI model and behavior.

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Configuration options:

AI model selection
Temperature (0.0-2.0) - Higher = more creative, Lower = more consistent
Conversation context length - Amount of chat history to include
Personality instructions - Defines how the AI interacts

Temperature guide:

0.0-0.5: Focused, deterministic, predictable
0.5-1.0: Balanced between creativity and consistency
1.0-2.0: Creative, varied, exploratory

Connection Points

Input

Accepts incoming connections from other nodes

Output

Connects to the next node in the flow

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