# Capturing from Conversations



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Answers worked out in conversation are easy to lose. When a Q&A or troubleshooting session settles something worth keeping, ask the Agent to capture it. What you bring becomes a source, the Agent plans which pages it affects, and the normal update flow turns it into reviewed knowledge.

```mermaid
flowchart LR
  qa["Q&A or discussion"] --> keep{"Worth keeping?"}
  keep -->|yes| src["Save as a source<br/>summary / document / code / MR"]
  src --> plan["Agent proposes<br/>affected pages"]
  plan --> upd["Update and Review"]
  upd --> kb["Approved knowledge"]
```


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## What can become a source

| You have | It becomes |
| --- | --- |
| The conclusions of this conversation | A [session summary](</context/llms/pages/9ef52909ce6db4f3b229b8a7ea119525.txt>), optionally linked to commits or merge requests |
| Text you paste or an excerpt you hold | A [note](</context/llms/pages/90474554e682f858092546bb5cea1e31.txt>) |
| A new document | A [document](</context/llms/pages/8c2b49b432214167855ee9d7e2888616.txt>) or [Lark](</context/llms/pages/fafe8d11c18d92f5a291f0d33365cebc.txt>) source, captured |
| Specific code or a merge request | An update of the registered [repository](</context/llms/pages/08a9b212fa4ad7acc9f41f2c6fc74733.txt>) to the merged commit |

```text
That explanation of the retry limits is right. Save this conversation as a
session summary linked to the merge request, and update the affected pages.
```


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## What the Agent does

1. Saves the material. A conversation is summarized — the problem, confirmed decisions, reasons and open questions — never stored as a transcript.
2. Proposes a plan: which existing pages to revise and whether a new page is warranted. A new topic goes through structure review first.
3. Runs the update with the saved source in the affected pages' scope, and brings the changed pages to Knowledge Review.

Saving a source alone starts no knowledge work, so you can also save now and update later. A summary that arrives after the code was already processed can still update a page; the code version is reused, not re-parsed.


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## When a question finds a gap

When querying shows that the knowledge is missing or out of date, the query Skill suggests an update with the affected page, the proposed change and the source scope — and starts nothing until you accept. On acceptance it hands the evidence to the production entry in the selected Context knowledge workspace. See [Asking Questions](</context/llms/pages/9f737b01f7c056374ecc2d13199e8600.txt>).


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## Boundaries

- Only material you supply or authorize is captured; the Agent does not scan its own history.
- A linked merge request records an association; it does not prove the change was merged or tested.
- Saving a conversation or approving knowledge does not approve any upstream change discussed in it.

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## Sources

- note:20261012/knowledge-service-agent.md · knowledge-service-agent.md L47–L47
- [context/packages/context/docs/guides/sessions.md L3–L8 · 3b0ce0a](<https://github.com/context4ai/context/blob/3b0ce0a0a1761f5fceb3bb48fb9dc29b54c0786b/packages/context/docs/guides/sessions.md#L3-L8>)
- [context/packages/context/docs/guides/sessions.md L22–L29 · 3b0ce0a](<https://github.com/context4ai/context/blob/3b0ce0a0a1761f5fceb3bb48fb9dc29b54c0786b/packages/context/docs/guides/sessions.md#L22-L29>)
- [context/packages/context/docs/getting-started.md L71–L74 · 3b0ce0a](<https://github.com/context4ai/context/blob/3b0ce0a0a1761f5fceb3bb48fb9dc29b54c0786b/packages/context/docs/getting-started.md#L71-L74>)
- [context/packages/context/docs/guides/sessions.md L10–L15 · 3b0ce0a](<https://github.com/context4ai/context/blob/3b0ce0a0a1761f5fceb3bb48fb9dc29b54c0786b/packages/context/docs/guides/sessions.md#L10-L15>)
- [context/packages/context/docs/guides/knowledge-updates.md L450–L457 · 3b0ce0a](<https://github.com/context4ai/context/blob/3b0ce0a0a1761f5fceb3bb48fb9dc29b54c0786b/packages/context/docs/guides/knowledge-updates.md#L450-L457>)
- [context/packages/context/docs/guides/knowledge-updates.md L492–L497 · 3b0ce0a](<https://github.com/context4ai/context/blob/3b0ce0a0a1761f5fceb3bb48fb9dc29b54c0786b/packages/context/docs/guides/knowledge-updates.md#L492-L497>)
- [context/plugins/context/skills/context-inspect-search/SKILL.md L462–L471 · 3b0ce0a](<https://github.com/context4ai/context/blob/3b0ce0a0a1761f5fceb3bb48fb9dc29b54c0786b/plugins/context/skills/context-inspect-search/SKILL.md#L462-L471>)
- [context/packages/context/docs/guides/sessions.md L25–L26 · 3b0ce0a](<https://github.com/context4ai/context/blob/3b0ce0a0a1761f5fceb3bb48fb9dc29b54c0786b/packages/context/docs/guides/sessions.md#L25-L26>)
- [context/packages/context/docs/guides/sessions.md L48–L49 · 3b0ce0a](<https://github.com/context4ai/context/blob/3b0ce0a0a1761f5fceb3bb48fb9dc29b54c0786b/packages/context/docs/guides/sessions.md#L48-L49>)