
Cole Medin has published a tutorial and codebase for building a 'Team Brain' architecture using Oracle AI Database, designed to scale personal AI assistants to group contexts. The system ingests information from chat platforms, repositories, and documentation into a unified table, applying row-level security labels at the point of ingestion to enforce permissions on every query. Agents access this shared knowledge via MCP with distinct tokens, ensuring that sensitive data remains isolated based on user roles while maintaining individual agent personalities. The solution is presented as an open-source template available on GitHub, leveraging LangChain integrations for vector search and semantic retrieval.
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