> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.coconut.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Intelligence Gathering
> Turn information gathered from diverse sources into actionable intelligence
Coconut offers powerful ways to gather information from a wide array of sources (such as internal systems, third-party APIs, and the web itself) and turn it into highly actionable insights.
## Create a custom knowledge agent
It starts with the creation of a custom agent that's configured with your intelligence gathering goal. Common examples include (although are certainly not limited to) the following:
* Market analysis
* Competitor research
* Idea validation
* Customer discovery and enrichment
Coconut has a large registry of reusable agents
## Configure your sources
Sources can be very specific or as broad as a search engine query (conducted by the agent) which will then crawl the returned results. Popular services, along with their provided MCP servers, include [Apify](https://apify.com), [Tavily](https://www.tavily.com), [Firecrawl](https://www.firecrawl.dev) or [Serp API](https://serpapi.com).
> Please use the Firecrawl MCP server to crawl each of the following links in: **.nut/context/knowledge/sphere-links.md** and put a summary of your findings in a new document called: **.nut/context/knowledge/sphere-gtm.md**
Note the **.nut/context/knowledge/filename.md** path is a way of referencing knowledge base files (new or existing) within a Coconut's filesystem
## Set the schedule
The agent can then be run on-demand or scheduled to run on a pre-determined cadence (such as once a day or every Friday at noon).
## Use your research
Everything that lives within a Coconut instance can be referenced by everything else (such as coding or image generation agents). Now that you have research, use it to create a visual representation of your findings with Nano Banana Pro.
