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.
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- 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 Create Project 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)

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