How Kasimir uses your knowledge
Understand knowledge types, Indexed vs. Live, and source citations.
Kasimir answers questions from your own knowledge — and always shows you where an answer comes from. This page explains the knowledge types, the two modes for external folders, and the source citations under answers.
Knowledge types
Notebook — pages you write yourselves (policies, glossaries, company knowledge). Pages marked “Always include” go into every answer.
Files — uploaded documents: private, in a team, in a project or company-wide.
External sources — folders from your cloud services (Nextcloud, ownCloud, Microsoft 365, Google Drive) connected as knowledge.
Chat attachments — files you drop into a chat. They apply only in that chat.
You control which sources a chat uses in the knowledge bar directly below the input field: the folder on the left, the enabled sources as chips in the middle, the Knowledge sources menu on the right – including the time of the last sync.
External folders: Indexed or Live?
Both modes find content by meaning. The difference lies elsewhere:
Indexed (recommended) | Live | |
|---|---|---|
Source citations | page-precise and clickable in every answer | none |
Freshness | as of the last sync | as of this second |
Size | entire libraries | max. 300 files |
Speed | instant | slightly slower per question |
Rule of thumb: knowledge bases (norms, manuals, contracts) → Indexed. Small working folders that change by the minute → Live.
How to tell how an answer was produced
Below every finished answer there is a slim bar with the toggles Sources, Steps and Model. Clicking Sources opens the numbered references with file name, page number and excerpt; the numbers [1] [2] in the answer text are clickable too – PDFs open directly at the cited page.
Under Model, answers that use documents also show how the documents were used:
Full context — the documents were small enough and were read completely.
Relevant passages — Kasimir picked the most relevant passages from the knowledge for each question.
While Kasimir is still writing, a single line above the answer shows the current step and how many sources were found so far. If your company sets a source priority, a note below the answer also states where it came from.
When files are missing
Not every file can become knowledge: images without text, very large files, or unknown formats are skipped during sync. The sources overview explains this in plain language (e.g. "3 files not imported: 2 not readable, 1 too large").