Company
Date Published
Author
Bharath Swamy
Word count
2177
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The project showcases the creation of a complete chatbot agent using SingleStore, a unified data platform for both vector and full-text search. The agent leverages this platform to provide an intelligent conversation flow that effectively answers questions about SingleStore, supplements that knowledge with web search when needed, and maintains conversational context across sessions. The system consists of several key components, including database persistence, LLM integration with tool calling, citation formatting, and a comprehensive REST API for both standard and streaming response modes. The agent framework can be extended to include features like multi-step reasoning, memory management, tool combination, self-evaluation, user preferences, interaction history, caching common queries, query similarity detection, batched embedding generation, distributed processing, source tracking, data retention policies, access controls, and audit logging. One of the most exciting aspects of this project is its potential to create domain-specific agents for other knowledge bases or applications by adapting key components such as scraping and processing pipelines, chunking strategies, embedding models, tool definitions, and guardrails.