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Build a knowledge base for your agents

Add approved text and website sources, group them into context packs, attach them to agents and campaigns, and test what the agent can actually retrieve.

An agent that only knows its persona will guess. The Knowledge tab is where you give it facts it is allowed to use on a call — pasted text or a website — and group them into packs you attach to specific agents and campaigns. Nothing here is automatic: a source is only searchable once it is in a pack the agent carries.

Before you start

Adding or removing sources needs the voice edit permission. Attaching packs to an agent needs an editable draft version.

Source

Pasted text or a website you control

Context pack

A source in no pack is unreachable

Attached

To an agent version, and optionally a campaign

Retrieved mid-call

Only if the search matches how the caller asked

A fact has to survive all four hops. Most knowledge that never reaches a call stopped at the second or the fourth.

Three things that hold knowledge, and which one wins

What it holdsAuthority
Product playbookThe offer: FAQs, objections, pricing, claim rulesAuthoritative. A campaign must pin a published product version
Context packApproved background the agent may search mid-callSupporting. Context that is not supported by the product never becomes a claim
Agent personaWho the agent is and how it talksStyle, not facts

That ordering is deliberate. If a context source and the product playbook disagree about price, the playbook wins and the agent does not quote the source as a claim.

Add a text source

Open the Knowledge tab

Go to CRMVoice AgentsKnowledge, add a source, and choose the text type.

Write a Title

Required for text sources. This is how you will find it again in a list of forty.

Set the Language

A language code — the placeholder is en-US.

Paste into Approved context

The field says what it wants: Paste facts, FAQs, policies, or call guidance. Separate sections with blank lines. Blank lines are not cosmetic — they are how the text is chunked for retrieval.

Set the Authority

How authoritative this source is relative to the product playbook.

Tick the packs it belongs to

Optional here, but a source in no pack is a source no agent can reach.

Add a website source

Same flow, but you paste a Website URL — the placeholder is https://www.example.com — and the Title becomes optional. Use this for pages you control and keep current. A stale pricing page becomes a stale answer on a live call.

Group sources into packs

A context pack is the unit you attach. Create one under Context packs:

SettingWhat it changesDefault
Pack nameThe pack's display name, shown in the agent and campaign pickers.
DescriptionShown beside the pack when you attach it. Write it for the person attaching, not for the agent.
Available to agents and campaignsWhen off, the pack cannot be newly attached. Packs already attached show as unavailable rather than disappearing.

Name packs after the campaign, not the content

Spring campaign brief tells you when to attach it. Pricing notes does not — and you will end up with three of them.

Source settings

SettingWhat it changesDefault
TitleThe source name. Required for a text source, optional for a website.
LanguageThe source's language code.en-US (placeholder)
Website URLThe page to ingest, for a website source.
Approved contextThe literal approved text. Separate sections with blank lines.
AuthorityHow authoritative this source is relative to the product playbook.

Attach packs to an agent and a campaign

Packs attach in two places and they stack:

  1. On the agent version, in the agent configuration. These travel with the agent everywhere it is used.
  2. On the campaign, under Campaign context packs. These are added after the agent's own packs, for knowledge that is true of this run only.

If you open an agent and see No context packs exist yet. Create one in the Context Library, then attach it here. — that is the message, not an error. Create the pack first.

Test what the agent can actually find

The What the agent knows panel runs a live retrieval search against your sources. The search placeholder is How much does a new website cost? — ask it the questions a real caller asks, not the questions your document answers.

Retrieval is not the same as having pasted it

A fact can be in the library and still not come back for the phrasing a caller uses. If the search does not surface it, the agent will not either. Rewrite the source in the caller's words rather than assuming the model will bridge the gap.

Products: the offer playbook

Products live on the Agents tab, behind the pill at the top: Voice AgentsAgentsProducts. They are versioned exactly like agents.

Switch the pill to Products

Then click New product. The name placeholder is Starter plan.

Fill the product playbook

FAQs, objections, pricing and the claim rules the agent must respect.

Save draft, then Publish…

A campaign cannot be approved against a draft product.

Troubleshooting

SymptomCauseFix
The agent editor says no context packs existSources exist but no pack has been createdCreate a pack in the Context Library, then attach it
A pack shows as unavailable on an agentAvailable to agents and campaigns was switched off after it was attachedSwitch it back on, or attach a different pack
A fact is in the library but never used on callsThe source is in no pack, or retrieval does not match the caller's phrasingAdd it to an attached pack; test it in What the agent knows
The agent quotes a price the playbook contradictsContext is supporting, not authoritative — but the source is misleadingCorrect the source; keep pricing in the product playbook
A campaign will not approve with product version is not publishedThe pinned product is still a draftPublish the product version and re-select it on the campaign