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Overview

When you create a new Contextual AI account, you automatically have access to several global datastores—pre-built knowledge bases you can use immediately to test agents, run demos, or explore the platform without uploading your own documents. These datastores are read-only and available to all users.

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Available Global Datastores

Materials Science Research Papers

7,546 docs · 41.3 GB

Star Wars Wookiepedia

497 docs · 4.8 GB

Rocket Science

7 docs · 59.1 MB

RFC Library

1,786 docs · 50.7 MB

3GPP Spec

8,102 docs · 27.8 GB

Raspberry Pi Docs

54 docs · 82 MB

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Using Global Datastores

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In the Platform UI

  1. Go to Datastores in the left navigation
  2. Global datastores are marked with a Demo badge
  3. When creating an agent, select any global datastore from the dropdown

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In Agent Composer YAML

Reference a global datastore by its ID in your YAML configuration: 
nodes:
  search:
    type: SearchStep
    config:
      datastores:
        - <your-datastore-id>
    input_mapping:
      query: __inputs__#query

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Via API

Use the datastore ID when creating or configuring agents: 
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.contextual.ai/v1/agents \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "name": "My Demo Agent",
  "datastore_ids": ["78f6bb93-04a5-4883-95f4-d681da6eee23"]
}'

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Example Agents

See these demos built on global datastores: