Agentforce Data Library setup and considerations
How an Agentforce Data Library turns Knowledge articles or uploaded files into a working RAG setup: what Salesforce provisions in Data 360, who builds a library and where, file limits, the locked source type, connecting it to an agent, and when to outgrow it with hand-built retrievers.
Explain the considerations of Agentforce Data Library and its concepts.
~8 min read · 28 practice questions ·
What the exam expects
- Explain what an Agentforce Data Library does and list what Salesforce provisions in Data 360 when you create one.
- Create a library (who, where, which sources, file size limits) and know that its source type is locked.
- Connect a library to an agent and explain why content is not answerable straight after upload.
- Explain how retrieval from a library respects data access.
- Decide when a library is enough and when to build retrievers in AI Models, or to use an agent action instead.
Key terms: grounding adds domain knowledge to a prompt so the LLM answers from your data; chunk is a small, self-contained passage of a document; search index stores the chunked, vectorized content; retriever searches an index and returns relevant results to AI features; data library is the quick-start bundle that builds all of these for you.
Key facts
- Detail
- Setup, Agentforce Data Library, New Library; or the Knowledge tab in Agentforce Builder
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- System Administrator plus Data Cloud admin (now Data Cloud Architect)
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- 4 MB for text or HTML, 100 MB for PDF
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- One source per library, can't be changed; each feature uses one library at a time
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- Not supported for new libraries; use the Search the Web standard action
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- Knowledge tab, select library, save, Activate
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- Governance policies and row-level access checks apply to retrieved content
Sources for this section (7)
- Create a Data Libraryhelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Create a Data Library for AI Agents Effectivelytrailhead.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Setting Up Data Librarieshelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Data 360 Standard Permission Setshelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Answer Questions with Knowledgehelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Choose A Data Source for Your Libraryhelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Retrieve Datahelp.salesforce.com (opens in a new tab)
- Why might an agent fail to find answers minutes after several hundred PDFs are uploaded?
- When should a specialist build retrievers in AI Models instead of relying only on a library?
- Which four components does a library provision automatically in Data 360?
- Why is a data library the wrong fit for telling a customer their order's ship date?
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