How to Create a Knowledge Base for your AI Harness
Your AI agents keep producing generic, off-brand slop? The problem probably isn't the model. It's that your agents are working blind, with zero context about your business.
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In this video I open up my actual workspace and show you how a set of plain-English markdown files keeps six websites, apps, and sales pages perfectly on-brand, with agents doing most of the work. What used to take weeks now takes hours.
What you'll learn:
• What a knowledge base actually is (not a database, and you don't need to know code)
• The receipts: 6+ on-brand properties running from 2 interconnected knowledge bases
• Context engineering 101: why giving your agent MORE context makes output WORSE
• How CLAUDE.md / agents.md route your agent to the right file for every task
• Live demo: on-brand media generated with zero brand instructions in the prompt
• Knowledge infrastructure: one correction ("always use Remotion") permanently rewires the workspace
• The 4-step framework to start your own knowledge base today
You'll also watch me build a fresh knowledge base from scratch in OpenCode with GLM 5.2, letting the agent interview me (Hormozi-level questions, honestly) to write the avatar doc, then wire everything into an agents.md routing table. Plus a quick word on privacy: which providers should and shouldn't hold your personal knowledge base.
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🔧 TOOLS USED IN THIS VIDEO:
OpenCode: https://opencode.ai/
VSCodium: https://vscodium.com/
Venice AI (get $10 free API credits): https://venice.ai/chat?ref=PA5RHk
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - You're Doing AI Agents Wrong
00:39 - What a Knowledge Base Actually Is (Not a Database)
01:41 - The Receipts: 6 On-Brand Properties, One Source of Truth
04:51 - Inside the Workspace: VSCodium + KB Anatomy (No Code Needed)
11:02 - Context Engineering 101: More Context = Worse Output
12:17 - CLAUDE.md: The Routing File That Ties It Together
15:15 - The Skills Layer: On-Brand Media Templates
17:34 - Live Demo: "Notice I Did Not Tell It Anything"
20:40 - Knowledge Infrastructure: Fix It Once, Fixed Forever
23:48 - The 4 Steps to Build Your Knowledge Base
25:44 - Live Build: The Agent Interviews You (+ Privacy Note)
31:05 - Wiring It Into agents.md + Your Next Step
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