# Exploring the Data Store

> Browse, search, and inspect the objects your Data Sources have ingested.

*Published: 2026-08-06T12:00:00.0Z*


## Introduction

Once a Data Source has run, everything it pulled lands in the Data Store as objects. **Explore → Data Store** is where you read them back.

Use it to check that an ingestion worked, to see what a record contains, or to find what an object is connected to. It shows the same objects an agent sees over the `explore` MCP server, so you can also use it to check what your agents will be reading.

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## Scoping the view

The header carries a data source picker. Leave it on **All data sources** to search across everything, or scope to one Data Source to work within a single system's records.

The scope is shared with the [Graph view](/docs/context/data-store/graph/), so switching between the two keeps whatever you had selected.

## Searching and filtering

- **Search** does a free-text match across the selected Data Sources.
- **Column filters** narrow by an individual field. These apply when you are scoped to a single Data Source.
- **Sorting** is per column.
- **Columns** lets you hide fields you don't need. The columns available come from the fields a Data Source indexes, so a Data Source that indexes a title, a subtitle, and an image will surface those first.

Results are paginated. Filters and the chosen scope are held in the URL, so a filtered view can be shared as a link.

## Opening an object

Rows have two targets, and they do different things:

| Click | Result |
| --- | --- |
| Anywhere on the row | Opens the detail drawer, without leaving the list |
| The object's **title** | Navigates to the object's own page |

The drawer is useful for scanning a list. The title is a real link, so it can be opened in a new tab.

## The object page

An object's page shows:

- **Identity**: display name, the Data Source it came from, its entity type, and its object ID
- **Context groups**: the [Context Groups](/docs/context/context-groups/overview/) this object is a member of
- **Relationships**: every edge into and out of this object, with the relationship type and the object on the other end
- **Metadata**: the raw record as stored

Two actions sit in the header:

- **View relationship graph** opens the [Graph view](/docs/context/data-store/graph/) focused on this object.
- **Create direct relationship** adds a one-off edge by hand, for a connection no rule produces.

Direct relationships created here are editable and deletable from the Relationships section on the same page. They sit alongside the ones produced by rules. See [Relationships](/docs/context/data-store/relationships/).

## Next steps

- [Graph view](/docs/context/data-store/graph/)
- [Relationships](/docs/context/data-store/relationships/)
- [Context Groups](/docs/context/context-groups/overview/)