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When a template doesn’t fit your corpus, you can design a context’s manifest yourself. You define the artifact types and edge types that curation builds, and Pinecone Nexus handles the rest.

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Build the manifest

You design a manifest during a context’s guided setup, which has three steps: Add sources, Design your context, and Review and curate. See the quickstart for the full setup. The steps below start on Design your context.
Add at least one source to a context before you design its manifest. You can update it later from the context’s Manifest tab with Update design, importing a new manifest or applying a different template.
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Start from scratch

On the Design your context step, under Or start from scratch, choose Design your own, then click Review. The Review and curate step opens with an empty manifest, which you fill in over the next two steps.
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Add an artifact type

In Artifact types, click + Add artifact, then fill in the fields:
  • Name is the type’s identifier, shown in the console (for example, department).
  • Kind is the built-in shape it’s based on: summary, topic, entity, event, doc, or page. See artifact kinds.
  • Scope is corpus for one set across all sources, or document for one per source file.
  • Description tells curation, in plain language, what to extract.
Click Add, then repeat for each type you want.
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Add an edge type

Edges link your artifact types into a knowledge graph. This step is optional.In Edge types, click + Add edge, then fill in the fields:
  • Name is the relationship (for example, owns).
  • From and To are the artifact types the edge connects.
  • Description explains what the relationship means.
Click Add edge, then repeat for each relationship you want.
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Check the cost and curate

Check the Model and the Estimated cost. To see the manifest you built, expand Review manifest JSON. When it looks right, click Save and curate. The curation task opens.Curation runs in the background. When it finishes, your artifact types appear on the context’s Knowledge tab, and queries can traverse the edges you defined.

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Example manifest

A finished manifest looks like this, with your artifact and edge types under curate.artifacts:

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Import a manifest instead

If you already have a manifest, skip the builder. On the Design your context step, under Or start from scratch, choose Import your own manifest, paste a complete manifest in the shape shown above, then click Save and curate. Nexus applies it and starts curation.