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Use case

Build a Knowledge Base Agent

Answer natural language questions over internal documents, Notion pages, and code using retrieval-backed responses with source citations.

Every organization has documentation that nobody reads because nobody can find the specific answer they need in a wall of text. A knowledge base agent inverts this: you ask a question in plain English, the agent retrieves the relevant passages from your docs, and returns a direct answer with a citation. Engineering teams use these for internal runbooks. HR teams use them for policy questions. Customer success teams use them for product detail questions that do not belong in a public help center.

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  1. 1
    O OSS Document Index

    Anything LLM

    by Community

    Why this: AnythingLLM handles ingestion, chunking, embedding, and retrieval across multiple document types: PDFs, markdown files, Notion exports, and plain text. It runs locally or on a small VPS, keeping sensitive internal docs off third-party infrastructure.

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  2. 2
    M MCP Source Sync

    Notion MCP Server

    by Notion

    Why this: Notion MCP keeps the knowledge base current by reading updated pages on a schedule and pushing changed content back into the AnythingLLM index. Without this sync, the agent answers based on stale docs within weeks.

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  3. 3
    M MCP Code Documentation

    GitHub MCP Server

    by GitHub

    Why this: For engineering knowledge bases, GitHub MCP pulls README files, inline comments, and architecture docs from repositories so the agent can answer questions about how the codebase works, not just what is written in Notion.

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  4. 4
    A Agents Query Handler

    Claude Code

    by Anthropic

    Why this: Claude Code orchestrates the retrieval-answer pipeline: parse the question, retrieve from AnythingLLM, format the answer with source citations, and handle follow-up questions within a session. It applies guardrails to stay within the indexed knowledge and flag questions it cannot answer.

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  5. 5
    S Skills Web Source Augmentation

    Webpage Info Skill

    by Anthropic

    Why this: For questions that touch public documentation or vendor APIs not in the internal index, the webpage-info skill fetches the relevant public page and includes it as a source in the response. This covers the gap between internal docs and external references.

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Why we picked this stack

Get this running with Enterprise DNA.

Enterprise DNA stores the knowledge base configuration, index credentials, and document sync schedules as project-level settings in OPM so the setup is reproducible across team members and devices. The EDNA secrets store holds the AnythingLLM API key and any GitHub tokens for private repository access. New document sources get added through the EDNA project interface rather than by editing config files directly.

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