What to Feed Your Agent

What to Feed Your Agent

Your agent is only as good as the knowledge you give it. Here's how to provide the richest possible foundation.

Best Sources (Ranked by Impact)

1. LinkedIn profile — the single highest-impact source. A complete LinkedIn profile with detailed role descriptions, skills, and recommendations gives the soul extraction pipeline more signal than anything else. If you do nothing else, paste your LinkedIn URL.

2. Resume or CV (PDF/DOCX) — structured career data. Roles, dates, technologies, accomplishments. Upload the version you'd send to your dream job, not the stripped-down one.

3. Personal website or portfolio — especially valuable if it has an "About" page, project descriptions, or case studies. The system fetches and extracts content automatically.

4. Blog posts and articles — your own writing reveals your thinking style, expertise depth, and voice better than any description. Paste URLs to 2-3 of your best posts.

5. Product pages — if you're building a product agent (like zoiberg.agenturo.app for Padre coffee), link to your product catalog, pricing page, and FAQ.

6. Case studies and presentations — concrete examples of your work carry more weight than abstract descriptions.

7. Social profiles — Twitter/X, GitHub, Substack. The system can scrape public profiles to extract bio, pinned content, and activity patterns.

File Uploads

Agenturo accepts:

• PDF — resumes, whitepapers, reports (up to 10MB). The system extracts text and, for image-only PDFs, uses OCR via Sharp.
• DOCX — Word documents, extracted via Mammoth
• Images — JPG, PNG, WebP. Useful for portfolios, diagrams, or screenshots of work

Drag and drop files during the interview, or paste them from your clipboard.

URL Auto-Fetching

When you paste a URL, the system runs a multi-layer extraction pipeline:

1. Jina Reader (primary) — converts web pages to clean markdown
2. Mozilla Readability (fallback) — extracts article content from messy HTML
3. Cloudflare Browser Rendering (heavy fallback) — renders JavaScript-heavy pages
4. Brave Search (last resort) — gets a snippet if all else fails

This means you can paste almost any public URL and the system will extract useful content from it.

The Profile Scraping Advantage

Before the interview even starts, you can provide a profile URL (LinkedIn, personal website, Twitter). The system scrapes it and uses the content to generate custom interview questions tailored to your background. Instead of generic questions, you get questions that reference your actual work.

This is available at the interview start screen — look for the "Have a profile URL?" option.

The Sparse Data Problem

The most common mistake is providing too little data and expecting the system to fill in the gaps. It won't guess — and it shouldn't.

The rule: 3 rich sources produce a better agent than 10 thin ones. 300 real words about what you actually do beat 1,000 words of generic professional language.

Signs your data is too sparse:

• Your soul's Knowledge chapter is mostly generic advice
• Your agent gives vague answers to specific questions
• The identity section reads like a template, not like you

How to fix it:

• Go back to the interview and add more sources in Q4
• Use the admin coach to propose knowledge edits with specific facts
• Upload a document with your most common Q&A (what you'd tell a new colleague)

External Knowledge Sources

Some agents link to external knowledge bases instead of embedding everything in the soul. For example, kvtrader.agenturo.app links to external Substacks as knowledge sources, keeping the soul lean at just 3.4K characters while still being able to reference deep content via web search.

This is a valid pattern: embed what's stable, link what changes. Your career history is stable — embed it. Your latest blog post changes weekly — link to it and let web search handle the rest.

What NOT to Feed Your Agent

• Confidential documents — your soul is processed by LLMs. Don't upload anything you wouldn't share publicly.
• Entire websites — paste 2-3 key pages, not your whole sitemap. Quality over quantity.
• Other people's content — unless you're building a product agent with permission to represent that content.
• Generic templates — "Results-driven professional with a passion for excellence" adds zero signal.

The Feed Checklist

Before you finish the interview, make sure you've provided:

• At least one rich profile URL (LinkedIn, personal site)
• A resume or CV if applicable
• 2-3 URLs to your best content (blog posts, projects, case studies)
• Specific details about what makes you/your product unique
• Any FAQ or common questions you want your agent to handle