The outcome

Learn the interaction loop using a small task with a clear outcome.

FastGPT is a Open-source AI application platform for knowledge bases, conversational agents, visual workflows, plugins, Agent V2, and OpenAI-compatible APIs. Building grounded Q&A applications from documents, composing visual AI workflows and plugins, and publishing controlled agents through web channels or APIs. This guide narrows that broad capability into one repeatable outcome, with checkpoints that keep the source material and your judgment in the loop.

Before you begin

Set the boundary before the tool starts.

Choose one real task, identify who will use the result, and decide what evidence or test will make the result acceptable. Gather only the source material needed for that task. If the work contains confidential, personal, regulated, or client-owned information, confirm that the platform and account are approved before sharing it.

Troiana principle

AI should make the work easier to inspect. If the workflow removes the source, the owner, or the review step, redesign the workflow.

Step by step

A workflow you can repeat.

  1. 01

    Define the users, team, use case, source owners, data classes, answer and citation rules, model set, workflow actions, retention, privacy, quality, latency, budget, and human-review gates.

  2. 02

    Create an isolated test team, configure scoped model credentials, build a small knowledge base from approved documents, and record document owner, version, rights, and expiry.

  3. 03

    Create a simple conversational app before adding workflow nodes, require retrieved evidence and abstention, bound history and output, and keep actions read-only until independently authorized.

  4. 04

    Test retrieval, citations, no-answer behavior, injection, permissions, all workflow branches, failures, token and concurrency cost, then publish with scoped expiring quotas and monitoring.

Working standard

What good use looks like.

  • State the outcome before the background.
  • Provide the real source material.
  • Review the result before expanding the task.

FastGPT API keys act with the current member's access inside a team, so they may reach more than one app. OpenAI compatibility does not narrow that scope. Self-hosting requires secure cookies, origins, proxies, SSRF controls, databases, object and vector storage, code sandboxing, secrets, and patches. Isolate teams, minimize keys, validate uploads, constrain HTTP and tool nodes, require human approval, and test backup, restore, deletion, and billing.

Official references

Check the current product documentation.

Features, plan limits, availability, and data controls change. These official pages are the starting points used for this collection.