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Knowledge Base Management

Build and manage knowledge bases that give your agents the context they need to respond accurately.

What Is a Knowledge Base?

A Knowledge Base is a collection of documents and sources that give your agents context about your business, products, and processes. When an agent processes a task, it draws on its assigned knowledge bases to generate accurate, on-brand responses.

Symbi supports two types:

  • Company — created and managed by your team, shared across one or more agents
  • Learned — automatically generated from reviewed and edited actions (see the Operation Center docs for how learning works)

Source Types

You can add several source types:

  • Document Upload — PDF, DOCX, or TXT files. Symbi processes and indexes the content so your agents can reference it
  • URL Crawl — give Symbi a URL and it will fetch, crawl, and index the content. Useful for product pages, help centers, or public documentation
  • FAQ Generated — automatically created from patterns detected in your agents' interactions over time
  • Learned From Review — captured from actions you edited during review. These help the agent learn from your corrections

Processing States

After adding a source, it goes through a processing pipeline:

  1. Uploading — file or URL is being received
  2. Processing — content is being extracted and indexed
  3. Ready — fully indexed and available to your agents
  4. Failed — something went wrong (retry or re-upload)

Info

URL sources can be re-crawled on demand so your agents always have the latest content from your web pages.

Assigning Knowledge Bases to Agents

From an agent's detail page, assign one or more knowledge bases with priority levels. Higher-priority bases are weighted more heavily when the agent generates responses.

This lets you build a shared company-wide base for general information and layer role-specific sources on top for individual agents.

Permissions

Only Owner or Admin users can create, edit, or delete knowledge bases and sources. Member users can view knowledge base assignments but cannot make changes.

Tip

Start with your most frequently referenced documents — product guides, FAQs, and company policies. Add more as you identify gaps from reviewing agent actions.

What's Next?