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Guru

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Velocity6.3

AI-powered enterprise knowledge management, internal wiki, and knowledge-agent platform

Guru is turning its Knowledge Agent from a Q&A bot into a KB operator

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Current state
Guru's recent work centers almost entirely on the Knowledge Agent. It has moved from answering questions to doing the underlying knowledge work: creating and organizing collections, bulk-moving and archiving cards, and running the full draft-to-publish loop. That capability sits inside a governance layer built over the same stretch — skill permissions, jailbreak and custom-prompt guardrails, scheduled automations, and drafts that now survive employee offboarding.
Where it's heading
Guru is betting that the value of a knowledge base is no longer search but autonomous upkeep. The direction is a self-maintaining KB: agents that act on schedules, connect into Microsoft 365 to work across Outlook, SharePoint, and Teams, and are configured conversationally through Operator Mode rather than settings screens. Each governance release is the counterweight that makes handing an agent write access to the knowledge base defensible.
Prediction
Expect Guru to close the loop by letting the Knowledge Agent trigger its own maintenance from Quality signals — detecting stale or unverified content and running the create-organize-publish cycle without a human prompt.

Recent moves

  1. 28d ago

    Hand your knowledge base upkeep to your Knowledge Agent

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    The Knowledge Agent can now create and organize collections and folders, bulk-move and archive cards, and run draft-to-publish itself — real knowledge management, not just answering questions about it. This is the pivot the whole recent arc was building toward.

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  2. 29d ago

    Never lose a draft to employee turnover again

    Drafts now persist when an owner leaves the workspace, and admins can recover them — closing a real data-loss gap. A governance fix that makes the agent's draft-to-publish loop safer to depend on.

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  3. 1mo ago

    Operator Mode

    Operator Mode lets admins configure and refine the Knowledge Agent by describing what they want in chat instead of clicking through settings. A meaningful configuration-UX shift that lowers the bar to tuning agent behavior.

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  4. 1mo ago

    Microsoft Work IQ

    Microsoft Work IQ connects Knowledge Agents into Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Word, and Excel in real time. A substantial integration that pushes the agent's reach beyond Guru's own content into where work actually happens.

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  5. 2mo ago

    Manage Skill Permissions

    Skill permissions let owners restrict specific agent skills to defined users or groups while keeping the rest open. Part of the governance scaffolding that makes broader agent autonomy administrable.

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  6. 2mo ago

    Create Guardrails for your Knowledge Agents

    Two guardrails — jailbreak detection on inputs and a custom input-prompt guardrail — let owners lock down agent behavior before requests reach it. Security groundwork that arrives just ahead of giving the agent write access to the KB.

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