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# Knowledge search

# Knowledge search

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Builds reusable retrieval agents that answer from a curated document corpus — embeddings, a search index, a knowledge library, schema and header mapping, reuse of prior decisions, confidence thresholds and a human review loop.
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- **Used when**
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— When a question should be answered from a defined corpus rather than from a model's general knowledge, and the answer needs a confidence and a reviewer.
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- **Loads first**
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- The retrieval-system and agent-building skills.
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- The shared engineering guidelines.
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- **Returns**
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- Whether the use case is retrieval at all, and why.
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- The reusable agent boundary and its runtime contract.
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- The corpus and metadata contract.
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- The retrieval and confidence policy.
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- The production stack and the local emulation path that replays it.
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- The human review and learning loop for runtime decisions.
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- The evaluation and operations plan, and an implementation checklist.
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- **Hands off**
- Search to production — taking a retrieval system from prototype to production

## Others in Data

- Counterparty document expectations
- Data-lake assistant
- Dataset fulfilment
- Metric reconciliation
- Model curator
- Pipeline control panel
- Property data exploration
- Public record ingestion
- Question answering
- Report catalog
- Search to production
