Creating a basic AI agent for polling inventory.

[danielrosehill]

Cleaning Up & Exporting A Static Inventory

So my ultimate objective is to get a proper setup that uses the Homebox API in order to be able to look up items dynamically.

But for a simple proof of concept I decided to do it the dumb way and export my inventory statically.

Step one, export your inventory from the Homebox.

This is totally optional, but I thought it would make sense to do a little bit of cleaning of the data so that irrelevant data for retrieving inventory information could be excluded:

Basically, I got rid of the columns that I thought didn't need to be there.

One thing you can also try is rewriting the headers so that they're a bit more obvious for an AI agent to interpret.

Something like this:

For the purpose of scalability testing, here's where I'm at currently in my inventory:

Once I thought that I'd done enough cleaning, I downloaded a CSV.

Creating Agent In LibreChat

The next step is to create an agent configuration in LibreChat or your preferred large-language model frontend.

The agent is basically a model with a system prompt attached and related to the custom knowledge.

These instructions could almost certainly be improved upon but they should get the job done:

Once you upload your knowledge, the CSV is being vectorized, embedded into a RAG pipeline using the built-in vector database that comes with the stack:

When you can see the file name display, the process has been successful and your agent can now access the inventory:

Make sure to click on save to make sure that the knowledge has been added:

Now our chatbot is ready for use and we can ask you questions about our inventory:

You can see that it's checking the files when asked a question:

It was able to identify all the infrared controllers in my tech cabinet and isolate the one that I was looking for, number 3!

You can ask follow-up questions to retrieve details about the thing you're looking for:

And the chatbot will even respond in the format you requested with the data you wanted and provide a link to the catalog entry:

[supaeasy]

Isn't this WAY more complicated and slower than a standard search?

[danielrosehill]

Haha - yes, indeed it is. The reason I did this however is that I find the search functionality in the UI very unreliable. I'm not sure what it is about it exactly, but I frequently find that it just doesn't retrieve matches. This works far better. But yes, hopefully they'll figure that out at some point.