April 29, 2025BKFC: An Agentic Workflow for Gathering Knowledge from Google Chat
This article introduces BKFC (Build Knowledge From Chats), a Python notebook designed as an agentic workflow to tackle the common problem of extracting useful information from cluttered Google Chat histories. The author explains how manually searching through chats is inefficient. BKFC automates this by fetching recent messages via the Google Chat API, processing them, and then using Vertex AI's Gemini model for analysis. Crucially, it prompts Gemini to return structured insights (like summaries, Q&A, action items, project updates) based on a predefined Pydantic schema. The tool demonstrates a practical way to use AI (specifically Gen AI and APIs) to turn conversational data into organized, actionable knowledge, saving time and improving team awareness.
