Gen AI Builder Hub

Gen AI Builder is the developer-facing environment of AI Factory, designed to help you build advanced agentic AI applications on trusted data and governed infrastructure.

Builder gives you fine-grained control over Knowledge Bases, Retrievers, Rulesets, Structures, and Tools — letting you compose AI-powered applications that integrate deeply with your business context.

Gen AI Builder is the foundation for building Sovereign AI agents and data-powered AI workflows in AI Factory.

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Core Capabilities

• Manage Knowledge Bases and power RAG-based experiences

• Create and manage Retrievers for optimized semantic and structured search

• Define Rulesets to control assistant tone, behavior, and compliance

• Build and deploy Tools to extend agent capabilities with API calls, calculations, and more

• Package and run Structures — complex Griptape-powered workflows and data pipelines

• Monitor and analyze Threads — conversation history and system behavior

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Learning Paths

Start here to learn Builder step-by-step:

• Getting Started - AI Factory 101

• Building Production-Ready AI Features - AI Factory 201

• Advanced AI Factory Usage and Extensibility - AI Factory 301

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Concepts and Explained

• Gen AI Builder Concepts (Assistants, Knowledge, Tools, Threads)

• Assistants Reference Manual

• Knowledge Bases Reference Manual

• Retrievers Reference Manual

• Rulesets Manual

• Tools Reference Manual

• Structures Reference Manual

• Threads Reference Manual

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How-To Guides

• Create a Knowledge Base in Gen AI Builder

• Create a Retriever in Gen AI Builder

• Create a Ruleset in Gen AI Builder

• Create a Tool in Gen AI Builder

• Create a Structure in Gen AI Builder

• How-To View and Manage Threads in Gen AI Builder in Hybrid Manager

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Reference

• Gen AI Builder SDK reference

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Related Hub Pages

• Gen AI in Hybrid Manager

• Model Serving Reference Manual

• Vector Engine Hub

• AI Factory Hub Map

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When to use Gen AI Builder

Use Gen AI Builder when:

• You need fine-grained control of what your assistants retrieve and how they behave.

• You want to integrate structured and unstructured data into your agents.

• You need to build trusted, compliant, production-grade agents — not simple chatbot demos.

• You want to extend agents with Tools that connect to your real-world systems.

• You are building multi-step AI pipelines and workflows using Structures.

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AI Factory Gen AI Builder gives you the tools to build advanced, extensible, enterprise-ready AI applications — entirely under your governance and with full visibility.

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