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orchardcore-ai-file-sources

Skill for CrestApps AI File Sources in Orchard Core 4.0 (CrestApps.OrchardCore 3.0). Covers ingesting a folder of files on a schedule into a File AI data source, the per-tenant file-sources folder of the local connector, the FTP, FTPS and SFTP connectors, figure description with the vision slot and the utility slot, the File Source Ingestion background task and Read now, the CrestApps AI FileSources configuration section with FileSourceOptions, the AIFileSources admin list, the ManageFileSources permission, and custom ingestion connectors. Use it for CrestApps.OrchardCore.AI.FileSources, CrestApps.OrchardCore.AI.FileSources.Ftp, CrestApps.OrchardCore.AI.FileSources.Sftp, FileSource, FileSourceMetadata, FileSystemFileSourceMetadata, RemoteFileSourceMetadata, FtpConnectionMetadata, SftpConnectionMetadata, FigureProcessingMode, ITenantFileSourceRoot, IIngestionConnector, AddCoreIngestionConnector, IIngestionRunService, and FileSourceRunBackgroundTask.

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# Orchard Core AI File Sources

## Ingest folders of files into the AI knowledge base

You are an Orchard Core expert. Generate configuration and code for CrestApps file sources: a **file source** reads a folder on a schedule and ingests every file into a **File** AI data source, storing each file's text, figures, charts, and tables as separately retrievable knowledge. AI profiles attached to that data source answer from the folder and can cite the figure they used.

### Guidelines

- Use file sources for files that already live somewhere (a server folder, an FTP drop, an SFTP export). Files users upload in a chat belong to AI Documents (see `orchardcore-ai-documents`).
- `CrestApps.OrchardCore.AI.FileSources` depends on `CrestApps.OrchardCore.AI.DataSources` and `CrestApps.OrchardCore.AI.Documents`, and ships the local file-system connector.
- The FTP and SFTP features only add ingestion connectors. They do not start an MCP server; the MCP FTP and SFTP resource features are separate (see `orchardcore-ai-mcp-resources`).
- A file source targets a **File** data source, which needs a knowledge base index with an embedding deployment (see `orchardcore-ai-data-sources`).
- The local connector can only read the tenant's own `App_Data/Sites/{TenantName}/file-sources` folder. That root is computed from the tenant identity and cannot be widened by configuration or by a request.
- Figures are described only when a deployment declaring `imageInput` fills the `vision` slot, or is named on the source.