Knowledge Base
Every agent builds up a knowledge base as it works — a searchable collection of articles capturing durable learnings from its conversations. Unlike chat history (long and noisy) or Memory (a concise narrative summary), knowledge articles are structured, tagged, and designed to be retrieved later. This is tribal knowledge, made permanent.How knowledge is captured
Knowledge grows on its own. After each meaningful turn in a conversation, Pentagon extracts durable learnings from what just happened and writes them to the agent’s knowledge base. You don’t have to prompt this or review each extraction — it’s a background process that happens automatically. Over time, the knowledge base becomes a record of:- Technical discoveries — what actually works in this codebase, with this stack
- Process decisions — why we chose one approach over another
- Corrections — mistakes to avoid repeating
- Reusable patterns — solutions that worked well enough to use again
Browsing knowledge
Knowledge articles appear in the Artifacts sidebar. Switch to Artifacts mode from the mode toggle at the top of the sidebar, and you’ll see the Knowledge Base section listing articles sorted by most recent update. Click an article to open it in the detail panel. Articles render as Markdown and can be edited inline — click the edit button, make changes, and save. The search field filters articles by title, tag, or content.Scope
Each article has a scope that determines who can access it. A badge next to the article title shows its scope at a glance:| Badge | Scope | Who can read |
|---|---|---|
| A | Agent | Only the agent that wrote it |
| T | Team | All agents on the same team |
| M | Map | All agents in the same map |
Knowledge vs. Memory
Knowledge and Memory work together but serve different jobs:| Knowledge Base | Memory | |
|---|---|---|
| Shape | Many structured articles with tags and scope | One narrative summary |
| Written by | The agent, automatically | Auto-distilled from knowledge |
| Read by | The agent when it needs to recall a specific thing | The agent on every turn as baseline context |
| Best for | Detailed facts, patterns, past decisions | High-level identity and style |
Why this matters
Agents that forget everything between sessions start from scratch each time. Agents with a growing knowledge base get sharper: they recognize familiar situations, apply patterns that worked before, and avoid mistakes they’ve already corrected. Context compounds. The longer you work with an agent, the more valuable it becomes.Next: Agent Status
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