# DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform Concepts

Generated on 26 Mar 2026

DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform lets you build fully-managed AI agents with knowledge bases for retrieval-augmented generation, multi-agent routing, guardrails, and more, or use serverless inference to make direct requests to popular foundation models.

[Best Practices for Context Management when Generating Code with AI Agents](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/gradient-ai-platform/concepts/context-management/index.html.md): Improve AI output quality by carefully managing LLM context.

[Agent Instructions Best Practices for DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/gradient-ai-platform/concepts/agent-instructions/index.html.md): Write effective agent instructions to align responses with your goals, minimize hallucinations, and enhance performance.

[Function Instructions Best Practices](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/gradient-ai-platform/concepts/function-instructions/index.html.md): Write concise and actionable function instructions by defining purpose, specifying outputs, ensuring concise descriptions, and addressing constraints with structured examples.

[Prompt Writing Best Practices for DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/gradient-ai-platform/concepts/prompts/index.html.md): Write effective prompts to maintain a neutral tone, ask focused questions, simplify complexity, and enhance clarity with examples or screenshots.

[Effectively Use Workspaces](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/gradient-ai-platform/concepts/workspaces/index.html.md): Learn to how you can effectively group agents in workspaces for various purposes.

[Chunking Best Practices](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/gradient-ai-platform/concepts/chunking-strategies/index.html.md): Choose and configure chunking strategies to improve retrieval accuracy, reduce hallucinations, and optimize token usage when indexing knowledge bases.