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Connected Knowledge Search Agent Skill

Search indexed enterprise systems and answer only from the connected knowledge available to the user.

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What is the Connected Knowledge Search Agent Skill?

The Connected Knowledge Search Agent Skill helps an agent retrieve and synthesize information from indexed enterprise systems such as Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Drive, email, calendars, and meeting sources. Answers stay grounded in available connected content, and the underlying connectors and access controls determine what can be retrieved.

Product behaviour reviewed against VDF AI Cloud · 2026-09-04
At a glance

When to use Connected Knowledge Search

Match the Skill to the job, provide the required context, and decide what a useful output must contain before the agent begins.

Best for

  • Internal questions across systems
  • Project and meeting context
  • Knowledge discovery with source boundaries

Inputs

  • A question about internal work
  • Connected source inventory
  • User and connector permissions

Outputs

  • Grounded answer
  • Source references
  • Coverage or indexing gaps
Repeatable workflow

How the Connected Knowledge Search procedure works

The Skill supplies structured judgement and sequencing. VDF AI supplies the separately governed capabilities used during each step.

01

Scope

Identify which connected systems and time range are likely to contain the requested information.

02

Inventory

Confirm that relevant source collections are indexed before treating a missing result as evidence.

03

Retrieve

Search permitted collections and preserve source identity as material is brought into context.

04

Answer

Synthesize only what the indexed evidence supports and state when the available corpus is incomplete.

Tool boundary

Capabilities the procedure can use

Connected Knowledge Search can call these capabilities only when they are assigned to the agent and authorised for the user. The Skill itself never expands access.

Practical example

A representative connected knowledge search request

Example request

“Find our latest decisions, tickets, and meeting context for the identity migration and summarize the open work.”

Expected outcome

A source-grounded project brief with links to indexed records and a visible list of missing coverage.

How the capability model fits together

A procedure between the agent and its tools

Connected Knowledge Search gives the agent a repeatable method. Tool permissions stay separate, and the capability can run inside a governed multi-agent Network.

  1. 1
    Agent The governed worker Identity, model, instructions, access, and runtime policy.
  2. 2
    Skill Connected Knowledge Search The procedure and supporting context for specialised work.
  3. 3
    Tool Permitted capabilities Search, parse, generate, analyse, or write under access control.
  4. 4
    Network Orchestrated execution Model-driven nodes compose Skills into observable workflows.
  5. 5
    Outcome Reviewable work Evidence, files, decisions, or approved external actions.
Where it fits

Agents, use cases, and Network patterns

Use these relationships as starting points, then narrow the agent’s access and workflow to the actual business context.

Network patterns

  • Private retrieval before analysis
  • Internal context paired with public research
  • Knowledge lookup feeding a drafting agent
Governance and limitations

What remains under platform and human control

A reliable Agent Skill states its boundaries as clearly as its capabilities, especially when the workflow can influence decisions or external systems.

Operational controls

  • Connector permissions remain authoritative
  • Only indexed content can be retrieved
  • Source coverage is stated honestly

Known boundaries

  • It does not search systems that are not connected or indexed
  • A missing result is not proof that information does not exist
  • The skill cannot bypass source-level permissions
FAQ

Questions about Connected Knowledge Search

Which systems can Connected Knowledge Search use?

It can search the systems that your VDF AI environment has connected and indexed, including supported work-management, code, document, email, calendar, and meeting sources.

Does the skill bypass permissions?

No. Retrieval remains bounded by configured connectors, indexed collections, and the user and agent permissions enforced by the platform.

What happens when a source is not indexed?

The result should report the coverage gap instead of pretending the requested information was not found anywhere in the organisation.

Put the procedure to work

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