Integrating Your Own Data into Team Dialogs

Sentienta agents are based on best-of-class LLMs, which means that they have been trained on vast stores of online content. However, this training does not include current data, nor does it include your proprietary content. In a future post, we’ll discuss how your agent teams can access and utilize current online data, but today I want to talk about loading your own content into your team dialogs.

An Easy Way: Copy-and-Paste

Sentienta provides several mechanisms for entering your content into team discussions. Perhaps the easiest method is to simply copy text that you want your team to know about onto the clipboard and paste it into the query box.

You can add a question about the content to the end of what you’ve pasted so that the team has some context for what you added. This method works for short passages when you want to add perhaps a few paragraphs to the discussion, but is impractical when working with larger documents.

Loading Files for the Team

For larger documents, a better method is to load the file into the dialog. This is done by clicking the paperclip button (located in the toolbar below the query box), and browsing for the file you’d like to load. You can also simply drag-and-drop a file onto the query box.

The query box will tell you that the file content has been loaded, and you can append questions and comments to the content to aid the agents in determining how to use the content for discussion.

The advantage of this approach is that it ensures that all the agents on the team see the same content and have the same context for discussing and using it in subsequent dialogs.

A disadvantage of both this method and the first is that the content doesn’t persist indefinitely. Team dialogs become part of each agent’s semantic memory (as discussed here), but this memory is limited in both size and time.

Persisting Your Content

There are many cases where you want your agents to retain document knowledge indefinitely. For example, an HR agent that maintains company policies and procedures—since these rarely change. Manually reloading these documents regularly is impractical, so Sentienta offers an agent that can store and retrieve files from its own dedicated folder.

To see this in action, add the ‘Ed’ agent from the Agent Marketplace under the Document and Content Access section. Simply select the Ed agent and assign it to a team. This agent provides tools for adding individual files or entire folders. You can manage stored files by listing them and removing any that are no longer needed.

The Ed agent retains these files and can answer questions about them anytime. This approach allows you to load the files once and then add the agent to any team with the stored information. However, unlike the second method discussed, other agents on the team won’t automatically share Ed’s knowledge. Nevertheless, Ed can communicate its information to other agents through the dialog.

Final Thoughts

With the methods we’ve discussed here, you can integrate company-specific documents into team dialogs, ensuring that relevant information is always accessible when solving problems. This approach enhances collaboration and keeps your teams aligned with the most current data.