> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.maia.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Context Engine overview

export const admin = "Admin";

export const super_admin = "Super Admin";

export const AIAgents = () => <>the <strong>AI Agents</strong> icon <span style={{
  whiteSpace: "nowrap"
}}><img src="/images/global-nav/ai-agents.png" width="20" height="20" style={{
  verticalAlign: "text-bottom",
  display: "inline",
  margin: "0 1px"
}} /></span></>;

export const mission_control = "Mission Control";

export const maia_team = "Maia Team";

export const context_engine = "Context Engine";

export const maia = "Maia";

{context_engine} helps you build a knowledge graph of your business logic. Use it to add and manage knowledge graphs that capture the structure, relationships, and meaning of your data. You select a knowledge graph when [creating a task in {mission_control}](/docs/guides/mission-control-tasks#creating-tasks), or tell {maia_team} to use a specific knowledge graph in a chat. For more information, read [Knowledge graphs in chats](/docs/guides/maia-sessions-and-tools#knowledge-graphs-in-chats).

With a knowledge graph selected, {maia_team} understands your business terminology and builds pipelines relevant to your data landscape. By using knowledge graphs, you can enrich the answers {maia_team} provides with more knowledge about your business data, semantics, and processes.

{context_engine} is kept up to date using your chat history with {maia_team}, refining semantic information based on past conversations. We also recommend you add metadata, such as column descriptions and tags, to your data—that is, your databases, schemas, or datasets. This metadata will help {maia_team} understand your data landscape and provide better responses to your prompts.

To get started with your first knowledge graph, read [Creating knowledge graphs](/docs/guides/creating-knowledge-graphs). If you've already created a knowledge graph, read [Managing knowledge graphs](/docs/guides/managing-knowledge-graphs) and [Visualizing knowledge graphs](/docs/guides/visualizing-knowledge-graphs) to learn how to configure additional crawlers, manage access to knowledge graphs, and explore the data in your knowledge graphs.

<Tip>
  Visualizing a knowledge graph for the first time? We've included the demo **Ecommerce Knowledge Graph** in Maia to help you learn about visualizing data in knowledge graphs. Open it up, ask Maia Team about it, and explore the data it contains. For more information, read [Exploring knowledge graphs](/docs/guides/context-engine-visualization#exploring-knowledge-graphs).
</Tip>

Expand this box to watch our video about {context_engine} and how to use it to build and manage knowledge graphs.

<Accordion title="Video: Unlock data insights with Context Engine">
  <p>
    <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rjl6C7YKGfc?si=UOWtmcV7jBC4v75g&enablejsapi=1" title="Context Engine overview video" frameBorder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share; fullscreen" referrerPolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowFullScreen />
  </p>
</Accordion>

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## Accessing Context Engine

The {context_engine} dashboard shows all the knowledge graphs you can access or request access to. Use the **Projects** drop-down to filter the displayed knowledge graphs by project, or use the search field to search for a knowledge graph by name or description.

To open the {context_engine} dashboard, in the left navigation, click <AIAgents />, then **{context_engine}**.

Access to {context_engine} and knowledge graphs depends on your account settings and role:

* {context_engine} is only visible in the left navigation if the [**Enable AI Agents** permission](/docs/administration/manage-accounts#edit-account-details) is enabled for your account.
* By default, only users who have an [account role](/docs/administration/account-roles) with the **Create knowledge graph** permission can create and edit knowledge graphs and crawlers. However, all users can request contributor access to edit specific knowledge graphs.
* All users can select knowledge graphs when creating tasks in [{mission_control}](/docs/guides/mission-control), and {maia_team} will automatically use knowledge graphs in chats with all users if they enable [{context_engine} in chats](/docs/guides/maia-sessions-and-tools#context-engine-in-chats).

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## Data encryption

{context_engine} encrypts data both at rest and during crawling.

Data at rest is encrypted in the {context_engine} backend, which uses Amazon Neptune to store the knowledge graph and a PostgreSQL database to store vector content. Data being crawled is also encrypted throughout the crawling process, including while data is staged during harvesting, before it's added to the knowledge graph as nodes and edges.


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