Cookbook
Answer handbook questions with a cited app
Build an app that answers handbook questions with the exact policy citation, and escalates the rest.
Peopleadvanced
What this does
- Indexes the handbook into sections with stable citation anchors
- Answers employee questions only from indexed text, with the exact quote
- Escalates unanswerable or low-confidence questions to HR instead of guessing
- Re-indexes and redeploys the app the moment the handbook changes
Workflow
- Trigger
Handbook changes, or employee asks
New version uploaded, or a question comes in through the app.
- Prompt
Index the handbook
Section by section, with stable citation anchors.
- Prompt
Answer with citation
Every answer quotes the exact section it came from.
- Prompt
Escalate the gap
No confident match routes to HR instead of a guess.
- Result
Publish the app
Shareable Q&A app, live and versioned to the current handbook.
Recommended skills
Reusable skills the recipe pulls in, add them once, every agent can use them.
Handbook indexingBreak the handbook into cited, stable sections
Citation-grounded answeringAnswer only from indexed text, always with a citation
Escalation routingRoute low-confidence questions to HR instead of guessing
How to use this recipe
- 1Connect Notion or Drive, wherever the handbook lives, and Slack
- 2Set the trigger to re-index on every new handbook upload
- 3Paste the prompt; first run it asks where the handbook lives and the escalation channel, then remembers
- 4Review escalated questions in the HR channel before the app answers again
Recipe files
policy-qa-app/
recipe.mdskill.mdjobs-setup/
handbook-version-watch.mdskills/
handbook-indexing.mdcitation-grounded-answering.mdescalation-routing.mdworkflow.jsonCopy the prompt
Install the "Answer handbook questions with a cited app" recipe from the Eluu cookbook. 1. Fetch https://eluu.ai/cookbook/policy-qa-app/skill.md and save it into your skills folder as "policy-qa-app". 2. Ask me its first-run questions and store my answers in memory. 3. Offer to schedule the recurring jobs listed in the skill; only create the ones I approve. 4. Then run the skill once end to end so we can review the output together.
eluu.ai/cookbook/policy-qa-app.md
Paste it into any agent. It fetches the recipe file and pulls in the skills and prompts on its own, the prompt stays short, the detail lives at the URL.
