What is Knowledge Agent?
A Knowledge Agent answers questions from a governed body of source material and cites the passages it used. Its job is to know: it retrieves, reasons over evidence and refuses when the evidence is missing, rather than taking actions in other systems.
Also known as: knowledge agent vs skills agent.
The counterpart is a Skills Agent, which executes multi-step expert workflows - drafting, checking, routing, filing. Most enterprise deployments need both, but they fail for different reasons and should be evaluated separately.
How Uthereal handles it
Cortex ships both agent types on the same governed knowledge layer, so a workflow agent inherits the same permissions and citations.
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Last updated 2026-09-18 · plain-text glossary for AI tools