Build a Knowledge Assistant Agent
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Overview
Set up an agent that answers questions from your team's own documents and knowledge base—so people get accurate, sourced answers instantly instead of searching or asking around. This workflow covers grounding it in your content and citing sources.
Best For
- Operations leaders
- Knowledge managers
- Team leads
- Founders scaling a team
Problem
The knowledge exists—in docs, wikis, past decisions—but finding it means searching a system that doesn't surface answers well, or interrupting the one person who knows. As teams grow, the same questions get asked repeatedly and answered inconsistently. The knowledge is there; the retrieval is broken.
Solution
A knowledge assistant agent grounded in your team's actual documents can answer questions directly, with citations back to the source—turning a static knowledge base into something you can just ask. The design essential is grounding: it must answer only from your content, cite where each answer comes from, and say 'not found' rather than invent. That's what makes it trustworthy enough to reduce the repeat-question load instead of adding a new source of wrong answers.
Workflow Steps
- 1
Assemble and organize the source content: docs, wiki, past decisions, FAQs.
- 2
Set up an agent that can reference that content (a tool that connects to your knowledge base).
- 3
Instruct it to answer ONLY from the sources and to cite where each answer comes from.
- 4
Require it to say 'not found in our docs' rather than guess when something isn't covered.
- 5
Test with real questions your team asks; check answers and citations for accuracy.
- 6
Keep the source content current—the assistant is only as good as what it's grounded in.
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Example Prompt
You are a knowledge assistant grounded in our team's documents. Answer only from the provided sources, and cite them. Our knowledge sources: """ [PASTE OR CONNECT YOUR DOCS / WIKI / FAQS] """ Question: """ [THE QUESTION] """ Instructions: 1. Answer using ONLY the provided sources 2. Cite which document/section each part of your answer comes from 3. If the answer isn't in the sources, say "not found in our docs"—do not guess or use outside knowledge 4. If sources conflict or are outdated, point that out Accuracy and honesty matter more than completeness. A cited "I don't know" is better than a confident wrong answer.