Overview
The Add Knowledge to Agent automation action lets you grow your AI agent’s knowledge base automatically. You can pass in content from a variety of sources — structured or unstructured — and Taskade will store it as searchable knowledge.
💡 Note: Visit Add Project to Agent Knowledge to learn how to automatically train your agents using dynamic project data.
How to Use It
Click ➕ Add Step and choose the Add Knowledge to Agent action.
Configure the action in the sidebar.
Select the agent you want to fine-tune.
Choose the type of knowledge you want to add:
- Website Link
- YouTube
- File
- Plaintext
- Finish the automation or add more steps for further processing.
Add Knowledge to Agent (Settings)
Connector options give you full control over the Add Knowledge to Agent automation:
| 🏷️ Field | 🔤 Description |
|---|---|
| (required) Agent | The agent that will be fine-tuned. |
| (required) Knowledge Type | The type of knowledge to be added. |
| (required) File Download | The URL of the knowledge source. |
| (required) YouTube URL | The URL of the YouTube video. |
| (optional) Title | The title of the knowledge file. |
| (required) Content | The content of the knowledge file. |
Add Knowledge to Agent Use Cases
Not sure how to use the Add Knowledge to Agent action? Here are a few ideas:
| 🪄 Use Case | ⏩ Action Flow |
|---|---|
| Expand industry knowledge | ✅ Trigger: Schedule (weekly) ➡️ Action: Scrape Webpage (industry blog) ➡️ Action: Add Knowledge to Agent (with scraped content) |
| Incorporate company policies | ✅ Trigger: New File (Google Drive Trigger) ➡️ Action: Convert File to Text (PDF of policy) ➡️ Action: Add Knowledge to Agent (with content) |
| Update product information | ✅ Trigger: New Row (in Google Sheets) ➡️ Action: Find Row(s) with product update details ➡️ Action: Transform Array to String ➡️ Action: Add Knowledge to Agent |
| Integrate training materials | ✅ Trigger: Task Added (video URL in a "Training" project) ➡️ Action: Transcribe YouTube Video ➡️ Action: Add Knowledge to Agent |
| Update compliance documents | ✅ Trigger: New File (legal folder in Google Drive) ➡️ Action: Convert File to Text ➡️ Action: Add Knowledge to Agent (extracted text) |