Knowledge Assistant turns your docs into a natural-language answer surface. Readers can ask questions from your published docs site and get answers grounded in the context you make available to Radiant.
Use the assistant when you want readers to find the right answer without knowing the exact page title, navigation label, or API endpoint name.
What the assistant can answer from
The assistant uses context that belongs to the active docs site:
- Published MDX docs pages.
- Generated API reference pages from OpenAPI sources.
- Public web pages you add as assistant context sources.
- Custom notes you add in the dashboard.
The assistant uses available context only. If the answer is not supported by the docs or approved context sources, it should say that it could not find the answer in those sources.
Why it exists
Docs navigation is great when readers know where to look. Natural-language questions are better when readers know what they want, but not where the answer lives.
The assistant helps with questions like:
- How do I publish a dashboard edit?
- Why is my custom domain still pending?
- What does this API endpoint require?
- Where do I configure the assistant button?
- What should I do after adding a new page?
Good docs still matter. The assistant is strongest when the source pages explain prerequisites, plan limits, permissions, steps, expected status changes, and common questions in clear text.
Availability
Knowledge Assistant is available on Pro plans. The assistant appears only when the docs site has an active assistant index and the feature is available for the organization.
After a successful deployment, Radiant indexes the published docs. The dashboard activity table can also show assistant indexing status for Pro sites.
Sources and citations
The assistant includes links to supporting docs pages, API reference pages, and web pages within its answers. Links can appear naturally in a sentence or after the statement they support, and can point to a specific section of a page. A small website icon appears beside citation links.
Custom notes can inform an answer, but they do not have a public link.
This makes the assistant a guide into your documentation, not a replacement for clear source material.
What to configure
There are two parts to configuring the Knowledge Assistant:
- Assistant context controls what the assistant can answer from.
- Assistant appearance controls how the assistant appears on the published docs site.
Use the dashboard Knowledge Assistant page to add web pages and custom notes.
Use dashboard Settings or docs.json to configure the public button, navbar
button, heading, suggested questions, and icon.