Knowledge Base Q&A Assistant

Ask a question; get an answer grounded in your knowledge index, with citations — or an honest "not found.".

Build an agent that answers questions strictly from an Azure AI Search index — an internal wiki, product docs, an engineering runbook, an HR FAQ — and cites the documents it used. It retrieves the most relevant passages for the question, answers from those passages only, and attaches the sources so the reader can verify. When the index doesn't contain the answer, it says so rather than reaching for general knowledge.

This is a single-tool retrieve → grounded answer pattern using natural-language prompt structure. The defining design decision is loyalty to the index: the agent treats retrieved passages as its only source of truth, cites them, and refuses to fill gaps from its own training. Natural language suits the conversational Q&A surface, and the instructions handle the failure modes that sink retrieval agents — no good match (say so), partial match (answer what you can, flag the rest), ambiguous question (ask, or answer the most likely reading and name it).

This pattern applies anywhere there is a trusted document set and people asking it questions. Common scenarios for this pattern:

• Internal wiki / handbook Q&A
• Product and API documentation assistants
• Support knowledge-base lookup
• Engineering runbook and on-call helpers
• Benefits / policy FAQ (non-regulated)

This manifest uses: Azure AI Search

How to build single-shot agents using natural language prompt structure for cited narrative answer output.

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