Design an Enterprise Knowledge Agent

Design an internal company assistant that answers employee questions by searching across Slack, Docs, Jira, and other tools — while respecting each user's access permissions.

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Key Requirements

Index and search across multiple internal data sources
Enforce per-user permissions on every retrieval
Keep the index fresh as documents change constantly
Handle queries that span multiple systems
Prevent data leakage across teams and roles

Interviewer Follow-ups

Q1How do you prevent data leakage across teams?
Q2How do you keep the index fresh when docs change every minute?
Q3How do you handle a query that requires joining data from Slack and Jira?

Design a Long-Term Memory System

Design a Trust & Safety / Content Moderation Agent at Scale