1. Identity
Who the agent is and how it talks.Instructions is the field that decides whether the agent is any good. Write it as if
briefing a new employee on their first day: who we are, what we sell, our delivery times,
what to say when we are out of stock, when to fetch a human. Vague instructions produce
vague replies.
2. Guardrails
Limits on what it may say. Covered in detail in Guardrails.3. Knowledge
Two ways to give it facts:1
Upload documents
PDF, TXT, DOCX, CSV or MD, up to 10MB each. Price lists, policies, FAQs.
2
Learn from your website
Enter your site URL. We crawl it, extract the content and summarize it into the agent’s
grounding. This can take up to a minute.
4. Training
This step is easy to skim past and shouldn’t be. Press Find Gap Questions. The system generates the hard, business-specific questions the agent cannot confidently answer — the ones needing knowledge only you have. For each, it shows its own attempt and its confidence. Your job is to supply the correct answer. Pick a suggested answer, edit one, or write your own. You can discard questions that are not relevant.This is deliberately not “here are questions it answers well”. Those need no work. The
value is entirely in the gaps — the questions where the agent would otherwise invent
something plausible.
5. Review & Compile
Compiling assembles everything above into the agent’s working configuration and produces an eval score by re-asking its own training questions. Re-compile any time you change instructions, knowledge or training answers. Until you do, your edits are not in effect.6. Assign
Choose which channels it replies on. Nothing happens until this step — an agent with no channels is inert. A channel can only be assigned to one agent at a time; a channel already taken shows as Assigned to another agent.After it is live
- Overview → Edit to change any of the above, then re-compile.
- Set as Default from the agent list.
- Set Inactive to stop it without deleting it.
- Watch its first real conversations in the inbox. The eval score is not a substitute.
Related
Guardrails
Prohibited topics, never-rules, PII handling, escalation.
Tools
Giving it the ability to act, not just talk.

