Drive knowledge ingestion

Knowledge Base Engineering — Full Pipeline

Class-level umbrella for ingesting, indexing, enriching, and visualizing knowledge from Google Drive. Three stages: Extract → Index → Enrich & Visualize.

When to load

• User says "scan my entire Drive" or "build a knowledge base"
• User asks for a dashboard of Drive/business data
• You need to understand a client's full document landscape
• User says "build an entity graph" or "prepare for Neo4j"

Triggers not to load

• Quick one-off file lookup (use google-workspace instead)
• Sending email or calendar ops (use google-workspace)

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Stage 1: Drive Scanning & Document Extraction

Full recursive scan

Use gog drive ls --all with pagination to list every file in the Drive:

gog drive ls --json --all --max 1000 --client <client>
# Check nextPageToken, paginate if present

Rebuild folder hierarchy from the parents field:

parent_map = {}
for f in all_files:
    for p in f.get('parents', []):
        parent_map.setdefault(p, []).append(f)

Type breakdown

from collections import Counter
types = Counter()
for f in all_files:
    mt = f['mimeType']
    if 'folder' in mt: types['folder'] += 1
    elif 'video' in mt or 'quicktime' in mt: types['video'] += 1
    elif any(x in mt for x in ['image','jpeg','png','heic','arw']): types['image'] += 1
    elif 'document' in mt or 'wordprocessing' in mt: types['document'] += 1
    elif 'pdf' in mt: types['pdf'] += 1
    elif 'presentation' in mt or 'slides' in mt: types['presentation'] += 1
    elif 'spreadsheet' in mt or 'sheet' in mt: types['spreadsheet'] += 1
    elif 'audio' in mt: types['audio'] += 1
    else: types['other'] += 1

Document text extraction

Use gog drive download --format <fmt> to export Google-native docs:

Google type	Export format	Tool
Google Doc	txt	gog drive download --format txt
Google Slides	pptx	gog drive download --format pptx
Google Sheets	csv	gog drive download --format csv
PDFs (native)	—	gog drive download → pdftotext

Disk management: download to temp, extract text, delete temp immediately. Never store media files (video/audio/images >500KB) locally.

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Stage 2: SQLite Knowledge Base

Schema

CREATE TABLE files (
    id TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
    name TEXT, mime_type TEXT, size INTEGER,
    modified TEXT, parents TEXT, web_link TEXT, category TEXT,
    ingested INTEGER DEFAULT 0, ingested_at TEXT
);
CREATE TABLE documents (
    id TEXT PRIMARY KEY, file_id TEXT,
    content TEXT, word_count INTEGER, char_count INTEGER, summary TEXT
);
CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE docs_fts USING fts5(content, content='documents', content_rowid='rowid');
CREATE TABLE document_tags (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, file_id TEXT, tag TEXT);

FTS5 Search

-- Full-text search across all document text
SELECT f.name, snippet(docs_fts, -1, '**', '**', '...', 32)
FROM docs_fts JOIN files f ON f.id = docs_fts.file_id
WHERE docs_fts MATCH 'search query';

Scripts

• scripts/knowledge-ingest.py — /root/.hermes/tools/knowledge-ingest.py Runs Stage 1 + 2. Idempotent (skips already-processed files).
• Cron job: drive-kennisbank-update (weekly auto-refresh)

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Stage 3: Entity Extraction & Knowledge Graph

Heuristics-based approach (no LLM needed)

Uses regex + known-person lists + keyword patterns instead of LLM calls. This is disk-safe, free, and fast — suitable for 5,000+ file Drives.

Entity types: person, project, company, location

Person matching: regex for capitalized names + a KNOWN_PEOPLE list. Project matching: regex for known brand/project names. Location matching: known locations from the client's context. Topics: keyword-based classification (coaching, finance, legal, marketing, etc.)

Graph schema (SQLite)

CREATE TABLE entities (
    id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, name TEXT, entity_type TEXT,
    mention_count INTEGER DEFAULT 1, first_seen TEXT
);
CREATE TABLE relationships (
    id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
    source_entity_id INTEGER, target_entity_id INTEGER,
    relationship_type TEXT, document_id TEXT, confidence REAL
);

Neo4j export

Export entities + relationships as CSV + Cypher script:

# Produces in /root/.hermes/neo4j-export/:
#   entities.csv  — nodes
#   documents.csv — document nodes
#   relationships.csv — edges
#   import.cypher — run against Neo4j

Scripts

• scripts/entity-pipeline.py — /root/.hermes/tools/entity-pipeline.py Runs Stage 3. Heuristics-only, no API calls.
• Neo4j export: auto-generated at /root/.hermes/neo4j-export/

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Stage 4: Dashboard

Architecture

data collector (cron 30m) → dashboard-data.json → HTTP server → HTML + Chart.js
                                                         → Vercel (static deploy)

Data collector: /root/.hermes/tools/dashboard-collector.py Gathers: Drive stats, system health, session activity, skills, GitHub PRs.

Dashboard HTML: /root/.hermes/dashboard.html Single-page app, dark mode, Chart.js visualizations.

Server: /root/.hermes/tools/dashboard-server.py [port] Serves HTML + JSON API endpoint at /data.

Cron: dashboard-data-refresh (every 30 min) — runs collector, copies data.json to Vercel project dir, and auto-deploys via vercel deploy --prod --yes.

Branding the dashboard

Every dashboard should carry the client's own visual identity. The workflow:

1. Find brand assets in Google Drive (search for logos, brand guidelines files)
2. Extract brand colors from SVG logos — download via gog, read fill attributes for exact hex
3. Inline the logo SVG directly in HTML (no external loads, no CORS)
4. Build a CSS custom-property token system (primary, secondary, accent, greys)
5. Design deliberately — use the client's existing visual language, not generic dark-mode
6. Dual-mode fetch so HTML works both locally and on Vercel:

   let res = await fetch('/data').catch(() => fetch('data.json'));
   

7. Auto-refresh pipeline: cron → collector → copy → vercel deploy

See references/dashboard-branding-guide.md for the full step-by-step.

Vercel deployment

The static dashboard + data.json can be deployed to Vercel: vercel deploy --prod --yes from the project dir. See references/dashboard-vercel-deployment.md for the full workflow.

Cron job dashboard-data-refresh should copy both the HTML and data.json to the Vercel project directory before deploying, so branding changes propagate automatically.

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Stage 5: Cognify Memory Integration

After the SQLite knowledge base is built, ingest into Cognify (Clark's LLM-powered knowledge-graph memory). This bridges the raw document index with typed entity/relation extraction, vector search, and hybrid recall.

Why

The SQLite FTS5 knowledge base is a text search index. Cognify adds:

• Typed entity extraction (Person, Organization, Project) via LLM
• Relation extraction (WORKS_AT, OWNS, PART_OF) between entities
• Vector embeddings for semantic search
• Graph traversal for multi-hop recall

Workflow

SQLite knowledge DB → filter by business domain → export .md files → Cognify ingest-dir

Step-by-step

1. Query the knowledge DB for documents with extracted text:

   SELECT f.id, f.name, d.content FROM files f
   JOIN documents d ON d.file_id = f.id
   WHERE d.content IS NOT NULL AND d.char_count > 100
   

2. Filter by business domain — exclude unrelated businesses. For Solaiman: include TGE/infobusiness, exclude Wethlete/Wheatleet. See references/tge-cognify-export-guide.md for keyword lists.

3. Export as .md with YAML frontmatter:

   frontmatter = f"---\nname: {name}\ntags: [{categories}]\ntype: {mime}\n---\n\n"
   

4. Batch ingest into Cognify — use background mode for 50+ files (LLM entity extraction per chunk is slow):

   python3 /root/.hermes/scripts/cognify-cli.py \
     --tenant solaiman ingest-dir /path/to/export/dir --glob "*.md"
   

5. Verify:

   cognify --tenant solaiman stats
   cognify --tenant solaiman recall "Wat zijn de coaching pakketten?"
   

Pitfalls

• Deduplicate first. The knowledge DB often has duplicate versions of the same doc. Group by normalized name and keep highest char_count.
• Filter businesses. Multiple businesses in one Drive = always keyword-filter to avoid polluting the knowledge graph.
• LLM cost. Every chunk triggers entity extraction. Expected and correct.
• --tenant before subcommand — required by argparse.

Related

• cognify skill — Core Cognify commands
• references/tge-cognify-export-guide.md — TGE filter keywords and patterns

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Disk-Safe Design Principles (8GB constraint)

Rule	Why
Never store media locally	Video (2.5K files) + images (1.8K) = 500+ GB in Drive
Download docs to /tmp, extract, delete	Each doc is <1MB, temp footprint stays under 50MB
SQLite instead of heavy vector DB	FTS5 fits in 2MB vs ChromaDB+Torch = 2GB+
Heuristics over LLM for entity extraction	0 API cost, 0 disk, 0 latency per file
Single-page HTML dashboard	No build step, no node_modules, no framework

References

• references/drive-research-workflow.md — Systematic Drive exploration steps (in google-workspace skill, shared reference)
• references/entity-extraction-methodology.md — Known person lists, keyword maps, and extraction patterns for this client's ecosystem

Related skills

• google-workspace — Raw Drive/Gmail/Calendar CLI ops (pre-pipeline)
• srt-subtitles — Parsing .srt subtitle files from Drive===ME:drive-knowledge-ingestion