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Discover Knowledge lets an Agent search connected company documents and, where configured, explore structured data sources without requiring you to add a separate search tool for every source. A default workspace Agent may already include it.

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Add the capability

In Agent Builder, open a custom Agent, select Discover Knowledge from Capabilities, and save. The Agent can use only the sources available to it through the relevant Spaces and permissions.

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What it can do

Depending on the connected sources and workspace configuration, Discover Knowledge can:
  • search documents by meaning across connected sources;
  • browse a source hierarchy to find folders, pages, schemas, or tables;
  • open and read a known document or page;
  • inspect warehouse databases, schemas, tables, columns, types, or sample values; and
  • query known warehouse tables to calculate counts, trends, rankings, or joins.
For document questions, the Agent can start with semantic search and then browse or read a complete source when more context is needed. For data questions, it can combine a query result with related business definitions in documents. Results depend on the source connector and access actually provided.

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When to use it

Add Discover Knowledge to a general-purpose Agent that needs to find information across several connected sources, locate a document whose exact path is unknown, or combine written context with structured analysis. It is for finding and analyzing information, not writing to third-party applications. Use Discover Tools when the Agent needs to take actions in those applications.