Create an agent

This guide creates a custom agent by describing it to the assistant. It assumes a running instance with a model configured so agents can run. For the bigger picture, see Building by chat.

Ask the assistant

Open Chat and describe the agent you want — what it does, and what it should reach for:

Create a support agent that answers customer questions from our knowledge base
and files a ticket when a question needs follow-up.

The assistant loads its agent-forge and asks the few things it needs: what the agent is responsible for, and how much it may do on its own.

Choose its autonomy

The forge asks for an autonomy level — how far the agent acts before pausing for a human:

• full — acts without pausing
• supervised — acts, but surfaces what it does
• approval-required — pauses for explicit approval before a gated action
• manual — driven step by step

Pick the level that matches how much you trust the agent to run unattended. The Information Architect writes the AGENT.md, commits it to the soul, and the agent is ready — no approval step and no restart.

Use it

Your new agent appears in the Agents list. To talk to it, select it in the chat agent picker, or mention it with @ in the composer to route a single turn to it.