A chatbot builder from Agent Bricks, now legacy, that answers questions from documents and gives citations. Genie Agents (low-code) and the Agent Bricks CLI (code) are the routes for anything new.
Read more: Databricks docs
In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains Knowledge Assistant in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Agent Bricks
Code-first tooling from Databricks for creating and shipping agents, including AgentKit, a CLI, a runtime, and memory and session features. Low-code agents are a separate product, Genie Agents.
- Legacy
A label Databricks gives to older agent offerings: their documentation remains so that existing agents can be kept running or migrated, but new agents should avoid them.
- Genie
Genie Agents (once called Genie spaces) let Azure Databricks users ask about curated data in everyday language; Genie writes a read-only SQL query behind the scenes and shows what it finds, with charts.
- Agent Bricks CLI
The
agentbrickstool, in Beta and installed through thedatabricks-agentbrickspackage, creates the skeleton of a custom agent, lets you try it on your own machine and then ships it to Agent Runtime.
Related terms
- Knowledge source
Material outside a model's own knowledge that an LLM application relies on. Each Knowledge Assistant is limited to 10, drawn from files held in volumes or tables, or from AI Search indexes.
- TXT
Files holding unformatted text. Knowledge Assistant can ingest them whatever their length in pages.