Expanding Genie Agents: Deep analysis, file reasoning, and more

Summary

Genie Agents updates expand expert-curated business agents beyond quick factual lookups to deeper analysis across structured and unstructured data. Agent mode can create and refine research plans, issue iterative queries, and return reports with findings, visualizations, and citations; Agent mode APIs extend this workflow to custom applications, chatbots, scheduled reports, and internal tools through streaming Server-Sent Events. Agents can analyze PDFs, documents, slide decks, and images in Unity Catalog volumes alongside governed tables, with permissions and content search indexing applied to retrieval. Genie Code helps authors create baseline agents, diagnose conversation or benchmark failures, and identify knowledge gaps from user feedback, while authors retain review control over proposed changes. Shared chats keep follow-up messages and edited visualizations visible to authorized users, supporting collaboration and agent-quality review.

Takeaways

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   Agent mode creates and refines research plans, explores data through iterative queries, and returns findings with visualizations and citations; its APIs support custom applications, chatbots, scheduled reports, and internal tools.

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   Genie Agents can combine governed tables with PDFs, documents, slide decks, and images stored in Unity Catalog volumes. Access permissions apply, and content search indexing improves retrieval across larger file collections.

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   Genie Code can generate a baseline agent, diagnose conversation or benchmark failures, and summarize feedback trends to suggest context improvements. Authors review suggestions before saving changes.