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Using it

Once connected, just ask your assistant questions in natural language. The gateway works best for questions about how the platform works and what's available — getting started, environment setup, deployment and promotion, and the archetype catalog.

Getting good answers

Ask the way you'd ask a teammate. Mention the gateway by name if your assistant has other tools available — e.g. "Using the knowledge gateway, ..." — so it knows where to look.

Questions that work well

Each of these returns real platform documentation today:

"How do I onboard a new developer to the platform?" Returns the onboarding walkthrough — workstation setup, cloning a project, configuring your local environment, and making a first contribution.

"What are the prerequisites for setting up my dev environment?" Returns the required tools and workstation setup, including containerized local development.

"How do I promote a release to an environment?" Explains the promotion model — the same image digest that passed in DEV is promoted to PRD via a manifest dispatch that ArgoCD/Kargo syncs — and points at the release-promote-to-environment action that does it.

"How do I create a new Python service?" Points you at the right platform archetype and the archetect command to scaffold it — e.g. the Python REST or gRPC service templates — so you start from a production-ready project instead of an empty repo.

Tips

  • Ask follow-ups. The gateway can read the full documents it finds, so drill in: "Show me the workstation setup steps for macOS."
  • Be specific about the topic, not the file. You don't need to know where a doc lives — describe what you want to know.
  • It's read-only. The gateway answers questions; it won't change code, infrastructure, or configuration.

What it can't help with

  • Private application source code outside the curated set of privileged repositories.
  • Internal-only or customer-specific systems.
  • Live infrastructure state (it reads documentation, not your running clusters).