Knowledge bases
A knowledge base is a named collection of sources that Kumkuat crawls on a schedule and keeps searchable. Link one to a persona and its most relevant recent passages are retrieved into that persona's prompt.
Source types
| Type | What Kumkuat fetches |
|---|---|
| URL / newsroom | Pages under a site, crawled by Kumkuat's own crawler with a hosted crawl service as fallback for sites that block plain crawlers |
| RSS | New items as they are published |
| Search | A saved web search, rerun on schedule to find recent coverage of a person, company or topic |
| Social | Public posts and profile data from X, LinkedIn, Bluesky and Truth Social, via public APIs and a dataset partner |
| Drive | A connected Google Drive or SharePoint library, read-only, with change detection (see below) |
Every source shows its last crawl, document count and status. Discover on a newsroom knowledge base queues a search for the newsroom's feeds and section pages.
Connected libraries
The SharePoint / OneDrive and Google Drive connectors read a library or folder you choose through delegated OAuth granted by a user, with read-only scopes. Tokens are encrypted at rest and revocable at any time. New, updated and deleted files are synced. The sync itself makes no model calls; automatic tagging of synced documents can be switched off for a workspace on request, so proprietary text is not sent to a model provider unless a user deliberately submits it for testing.
SharePoint uses a Microsoft Entra app registration that a workspace admin saves under Workspace → Integrations → Cloud sources, which is also how a Microsoft 365 US Government (GCC High) library is connected. The full setup, including the API calls, is in SharePoint & OneDrive.
Linking to personas
On a persona, choose Link knowledge base. A persona can read several knowledge bases; a knowledge base can serve many personas. Retiring a knowledge base that personas depend on leaves them ungrounded, so Kumkuat warns before you delete one.
Scheduling
Crawls run on the schedule you set per source. Pausing a knowledge base pauses every source in it.