A Folder of Docs Is Not a Knowledge Base

Short summary

A folder of markdown docs fails as a knowledge base because it retrieves prose chunks, not atomic facts, and loses provenance once embedded. The fix is a pipeline that distills sources into individual sourced claims before any agent queries them. The author's agentproto corpus-cli tool implements this with import, distill, validate, and serve steps that keep every claim traceable to its origin.

• •Docs-as-knowledge-base fails because chunks aren't facts and provenance is lost after embedding
• •Solution: distill sources into atomic, sourced claims before retrieval
• •agentproto corpus-cli provides a four-command pipeline to build, validate, and serve a queryable corpus

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