One of Onyx’s most standout features is the ability to enrich the LLM’s general world knowledge with context unique to your team. Onyx uses Connectors to index knowledge from your team’s applications to build an understanding of the documents, people, and concepts within your organization. Documents, metadata, and access permissions are all kept up to date in near real time.

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Search UI

On the top left of the page, you can select the mode of the UI. Replace “Auto” with “Search” to always go into this view.
Onyx Search Interface
Onyx’s context retrieval respects user level permissions which is only configurable via the Enterprise Edition.
Onyx’s knowledge connectivity can be used via both the Search and Chat interface. The Search interface provides a better view of documents and is better for quickly accessing documents when the intent is not to get an answer. Users do not need to explicitly select this mode — when a query is classified by Onyx as a document search, it will automatically go into this UI experience.

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Filters

The Search UI also provides more advanced filtering options: Top Search Filters The top bar allows users to filter by time ranges (date range / time offset), authors, and tags (e.g. Folder: Engineering). Top Search Filters The side filters allow users to filter by the source type of the documents.

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Chat UI

Context from your applications are also available in the Chat UI and to Onyx Agents. Deep Research mode is also a Chat UI feature. Click here to learn more about the Chat experience.