Add knowledge sources

View as Markdown

The AI agent answers only from the sources you list. That is what keeps its answers accurate and lets it link to where an answer came from.

Open AI agent, then Knowledge. Only admins and owners can add or change sources.

Upload documents

  1. Select Choose files to upload.
  2. Pick up to 10 files at a time.
  3. Upload them.

Accepted types are Markdown (.md, .markdown, .mdx), plain text (.txt), HTML (.html, .htm), PDF and Word (.docx). Each file can be up to 25 MB and must not be empty. A file that fails a check is listed with the reason, and the others still upload.

Crawl a website

  1. In Crawl a website, enter a sitemap address, such as https://example.com/sitemap.xml, or the address of a single page.
  2. Set Most pages to index. The default is 100 and the limit is 500.
  3. Select Start crawl.

A sitemap crawls each page it lists. Tirver respects your robots.txt and crawls at a polite rate, then turns each page into text with its title and address.

Source status

Status Meaning
Pending Waiting its turn.
Indexing Being read and prepared.
Indexed Ready. The agent can answer from it.
Failed Something went wrong. The reason is shown.
Skipped Left out, for example blocked by robots.txt.

For a website, the status summarises its pages, and a few failed or skipped pages are listed with their reasons.

Keep sources fresh

  • Re-crawl fetches a website again. Pages that have not changed are skipped, changed pages are updated, and pages that disappeared are removed.
  • Re-index processes a source again without fetching it.
  • Refresh updates the list.
  • Delete a source, after confirming, to stop the agent using it.

The Last synced column shows when each source was last updated.

Tips for good answers

  • Prefer clear, current pages over long archives.
  • Put each topic in its own page or section.
  • Test with real customer questions. See test the agent.

Your help articles are for customers to read in the widget. To let the agent use their content too, point a crawl at your published help pages or upload the articles as documents.

Did this answer your question?

Get Tirver news by email

New features and improvements, when they ship.