Demand-Driven Context: A Methodology for Coherent Knowledge Bases Through Agent Failure

AI Engineer · Intermediate ·🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture ·2mo ago

Key Takeaways

Building demand-driven context bases for coherent knowledge bases through agent failure using practical exercises

Original Description

Enterprise teams spend a lot of time trying to guess what AI agents need to know. This workshop flips that around. Instead of curating context top-down, Raj Navakoti shows how to build a demand-driven context base by giving agents real problems, watching where they fail, and using those failures to reveal exactly what knowledge is missing. Using practical exercises and real examples from IKEA Digital, the session walks through how to grow a knowledge base problem by problem, structure it in Markdown, and use agents with different roles and reasoning boundaries against the same shared context. If you're building enterprise AI systems and want a more grounded way to create useful context, this is a strong practical framework. Speaker info: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/raj-navakoti-529880b1/ Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction and speaker background 2:47 - The situation: Analogy to the movie Memento and AI's memory constraints 3:55 - Evolution of AI: From prompt engineering to deep agents 4:33 - Enterprise AI challenge: Why productivity isn't moving 5:33 - The problem: Green (general), Orange (taught), and Red (institutional/tribal) knowledge 10:11 - The Monolith: Why institutional knowledge is often outdated or missing 11:24 - Solution introduction: Demand-driven context 13:05 - The "Pull" strategy: Learning by doing vs. pushing information 14:48 - The agent lifecycle: Problem to discovery to documentation 17:46 - Demo introduction: Using a framework for context management 19:12 - Live demo: Incident root cause analysis and context discovery 24:05 - Scaling: 14 incidents to show confidence level improvement 26:27 - Automated scale: Validating knowledge across the monolith 33:01 - Storage strategy: Why GitHub is preferred for knowledge repositories 34:47 - The Meta Model: Navigating domain relationships 36:27 - Value proposition: Knowing the unknown and managing knowledge 39:02 - Summary: The 80/20 rule and cache-based context blocks 40:15 - Workshop takeaways: Reposit
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Chapters (18)

Introduction and speaker background
2:47 The situation: Analogy to the movie Memento and AI's memory constraints
3:55 Evolution of AI: From prompt engineering to deep agents
4:33 Enterprise AI challenge: Why productivity isn't moving
5:33 The problem: Green (general), Orange (taught), and Red (institutional/tribal)
10:11 The Monolith: Why institutional knowledge is often outdated or missing
11:24 Solution introduction: Demand-driven context
13:05 The "Pull" strategy: Learning by doing vs. pushing information
14:48 The agent lifecycle: Problem to discovery to documentation
17:46 Demo introduction: Using a framework for context management
19:12 Live demo: Incident root cause analysis and context discovery
24:05 Scaling: 14 incidents to show confidence level improvement
26:27 Automated scale: Validating knowledge across the monolith
33:01 Storage strategy: Why GitHub is preferred for knowledge repositories
34:47 The Meta Model: Navigating domain relationships
36:27 Value proposition: Knowing the unknown and managing knowledge
39:02 Summary: The 80/20 rule and cache-based context blocks
40:15 Workshop takeaways: Reposit
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