legacy GA
Knowledge Assistant
Knowledge Assistant is legacy, replaced by Genie Agents (legacy since October 2026).
Knowledge Assistant Genie Agents
Agent Bricks capability: a managed, document-grounded Q&A chatbot that answers questions over your uploaded documents with citations.
- Rather than plain similarity search it uses an "Instructed Retriever" that learns how each knowledge source is organized - Databricks claims up to 70% higher answer quality than simplistic RAG, with page-level citations on every response.
- Its January 2026 general availability came with an asterisk - select US regions only, and only for workspaces without the Enhanced Security and Compliance add-on; HIPAA workspaces had to wait until March 2026 to get it by default.
- It spent nine months as a GA product before the October 2026 release notes moved it to the legacy shelf, with the same notice as its sibling Supervisor Agent.
Limitations: Files larger than 100 MB are skipped during ingestion, as are PDF, DOC, DOCX, PPT and PPTX files with more than 500 pages and any file whose name starts with an underscore or a period. For Unity Catalog table sources only the selected content column is ingested, and AI Search indexes must use one of three supported embedding models (databricks-gte-large-en, databricks-bge-large-en, or databricks-qwen3-embedding-0-6b).
Open in REbricked →- Category
- AI / ML
- Also known as
- Knowledge Assistant Agent
- Verified
- 2026-10-14
Sources
- Official Official Databricks / Microsoft docs
- Official Databricks docs: Legacy agent offerings
- Official Databricks docs: Agent Bricks CLI (replacement for new agents written in code)
- Official Databricks release notes: Knowledge Assistant and Supervisor Agent are now legacy (October 12, 2026)
- Community Databricks blog: Knowledge Assistant GA (Jan 2026)
- Official Databricks release notes: Knowledge Assistant GA (January 2026)