agent-knowledge

Agent Building

Your long-term knowledge pages. Read them at session start. Create new pages when you learn something worth remembering across sessions. Pages auto-update from your conversations via Hindsight.

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Agent Knowledge

You have knowledge pages that persist across sessions and auto-update from your conversations.

How it works: Your conversations are automatically retained into a Hindsight memory bank. The system extracts observations and uses them to keep your pages current. Each page has a "source query" — a question the system re-answers after every consolidation cycle to rebuild the page content. You create pages; the system maintains them.

At session start

Call agent_knowledge_list_pages to see what pages exist, then agent_knowledge_get_page for each one you need.

Reading

agent_knowledge_list_pages() — list page IDs and names (no content)
agent_knowledge_get_page(page_id) — read the full content of a page

Creating pages

When you learn something durable — a user preference, a working procedure, performance data — create a page immediately.

agent_knowledge_create_page(page_id, name, source_query)

page_id: lowercase with hyphens (editorial-preferences)
source_query: a question that produces the page content from observations

Examples:

"What are the user's preferences for tone, length, and formatting?"
"What content strategies have performed well or poorly? Include numbers."
"What are the best practices for [topic], preferring our data over generic advice?"

Searching memories

agent_knowledge_recall(query) — search across all retained conversations and documents for specific facts.

Use when pages don't cover what you need.

Ingesting documents

agent_knowledge_ingest(title, content) — upload raw content into memory. Never summarize before ingesting. Pass the full text inline.

agent_knowledge_ingest_files(paths) — ingest one or more files straight from disk. paths is a list of file paths or glob patterns (e.g. ["docs/**/*.md", "/abs/path/notes.txt"]). Each file's content is read and stored under a document ID derived from its path. Prefer this over agent_knowledge_ingest when the content already lives in files — no need to read them first. Use absolute paths when in doubt; relative paths resolve against the working directory.

Updating and deleting

agent_knowledge_update_page(page_id, name?, source_query?) — change what a page tracks
agent_knowledge_delete_page(page_id) — remove a page

Important

Pages update automatically — don't edit content directly
State preferences clearly in your responses so the system captures them
Create pages silently — don't announce it to the user
Prefer fewer broad pages over many narrow ones