---
title: "Add context"
url: "https://docs.mekodata.ai/quick-start/add-context/"
---

# Add context

Add a document and ask your agent to answer from it

Knowledge is the curated material your agents should follow, such as your team's standards or a product spec. Save this as `CLAUDE.md` on your machine:

```text
# Project Guidelines: Triage agent for customer issues

## Core Coding Standards
- **Strict Typing**: Never use `any`. Define interfaces for all API responses.
- **Functional Style**: Prefer pure functions and immutable data over classes.

## Critical Commands
- **Build**: `npm run build`
- **Lint**: `npm run lint`
- **Test**: `npm test`
- **Format**: `npm run format`

## Quality Check Workflow
After every significant code change, run `npm run format`, then `npm run lint`,
then `npm test`, and fix any regressions before reporting completion.
```

Now we'll upload the document to Meko:

- Cloud
- Local

#### Cloud

In the portal:

1. Open **Datapacks**, select your datapack, and click **+ Add Knowledge**.
2. Upload the file.

Meko parses, chunks, and indexes it, which can take a few minutes. Free accounts can store up to 100 MB across knowledge files and [artifacts](/concepts/artifacts/), at 5 MB per file.

#### Local

Run the following command:

```sh
meko-cli upload CLAUDE.md
```

Meko uploads the file to your default datapack.

The command waits until the file is indexed (check **Knowledge files** status). It accepts PDF, text, Markdown, JSON, CSV, XML, or HTML, up to 50 MiB.

When the file is indexed, ask your agent:

```text
What are the critical commands for the project?
```

```output
The critical commands defined in your project guidelines are:

- Build: npm run build
- Lint: npm run lint
- Test: npm test
- Format: npm run format

After every significant code change, run them in this order: format, lint, test.
```

Meko read, chunked, and indexed the document, and your agent searched it using the MCP server.

Your agent can also upload files. See [Upload from your agent](/concepts/knowledgebase/#upload-from-your-agent).

Because you only have one datapack, Meko uses it automatically. When you have multiple datapacks, you switch between them by designating one as your active pin: the datapack where Meko saves conversations and memories. See [How to change your pin](/use-meko/datapacks/#how-to-change-your-pin).

### Next: [Watch your agent learn](/quick-start/watch-your-agent-learn/)