Agents Hub

Build intelligent, conversational AI assistants that understand context, use tools, and complete tasks - all through AgenticFlow's intuitive visual interface. No coding required.

What are AI Agents?

AI Agents are interactive assistants that combine the power of large language models with real-world capabilities. Think of them as AI team members that can:

  • Converse Naturally - Chat with users in their own words, understanding context and nuance

  • Access Knowledge - Search through your documents, databases, and knowledge bases instantly

  • Use Tools - Connect to 300+ integrations including CRMs, databases, APIs, and business systems

  • Take Action - Execute workflows, send messages, create records, and automate tasks

  • Remember Everything - Maintain conversation history and context across multiple interactions

  • Handle Multiple Formats - Process text, images, audio, video, and documents

Unlike simple chatbots with scripted responses, AgenticFlow agents think, reason, and make decisions to solve problems.

When to Use Agents

Perfect for Interactive Assistance

Customer Service & Support

  • Answer customer questions 24/7

  • Look up order status and account information

  • Escalate complex issues to human agents

  • Provide personalized recommendations

Sales & Lead Qualification

  • Engage prospects in real-time conversations

  • Qualify leads with intelligent questioning

  • Schedule demos and meetings

  • Provide product information

Internal Knowledge Assistants

  • Answer employee questions from company knowledge bases

  • Onboard new team members

  • Provide policy and procedure guidance

  • Research and summarize information

Personal Assistants

  • Schedule appointments and manage calendars

  • Send reminders and follow-ups

  • Draft emails and documents

  • Organize tasks and projects

When to Use Other Tools

Use Workflows Instead When:

  • You need scheduled, automated processes (e.g., daily reports)

  • Tasks run without human interaction

  • You're processing batches of data

  • The sequence of steps is fixed and doesn't require decisions

Use Workforce Instead When:

  • Multiple specialized agents need to collaborate

  • Complex tasks require handoffs between different AI roles

  • You're building an entire AI team (sales, support, research, etc.)

  • Tasks need orchestration across many steps and agents


Getting Started

Quick Paths to Building Agents

New to AgenticFlow? Start here:

Ready to customize? Learn the configuration system:


The 11 Agent Capabilities

AgenticFlow agents are built by configuring 11 powerful capability areas. Each capability is independent - use only what you need, or combine them all for maximum power.

1. Identity & Personality

What it controls: Your agent's name, description, and behavior Set up:

  • Choose a name and description that reflects the agent's purpose

  • Write a system prompt that defines personality, tone, and expertise

  • Add a welcome message to greet users

  • Create suggested conversation starters

Example: A customer support agent might introduce itself as "friendly and professional," use a warm greeting, and suggest starters like "Check my order status" or "I need help with a return."

2. AI Model Selection

What it controls: Which AI model powers your agent and how it thinks

Choose from 100+ models across 7 providers:

  • OpenAI (17 models): GPT-4.1, GPT-5 family, O1/O3 reasoning models, GPT OSS

  • Anthropic (8 models): Claude 4.5, 4.0, 3.7, 3.5 families

  • Google Gemini (5 models): Gemini 3 Pro, 2.5, 2.0, 1.5 families (vision/video/audio)

  • Groq (14 models): Ultra-fast Llama, Kimi, Qwen, Mistral models

  • DeepSeek (2 models): Cost-efficient reasoning and chat

  • PixelML (50+ models): Unified access to all latest models

  • AgenticFlow (11 models): Budget-friendly curated selection

Fine-tune:

  • Temperature (0-1): Control creativity vs. consistency (default: 0.1)

  • Max Tokens: Control response length (1K-128K depending on model)

  • Context Window: Conversation history (50K-2M tokens depending on model)

Quick Recommendations:

  • General Business: GPT-4.1 ($2/M), Claude 4.5 Sonnet ($3/M)

  • High-Volume/Budget: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite ($0.075/M), GPT-4.1 Nano ($0.08/M)

  • Coding: GPT-5.1 Codex ($1.25/M), DeepSeek Reasoner ($0.55/M)

  • Multi-Modal: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite (vision+video+audio, $0.075/M)

  • Reasoning: O1/O3 ($1.10/M), DeepSeek Reasoner ($0.55/M)

📚 Complete Model Selection Guide →

3. Knowledge & RAG (Retrieval)

What it controls: Your agent's access to custom knowledge bases, documents, and data Connect to:

  • Knowledge bases you've created

  • Datasets and data tables

  • Uploaded documents (PDFs, Word, text files)

  • Web pages you've crawled

Configuration options:

  • Search Strategy: Hybrid search, semantic search, or full-text search

  • Auto-Retrieval: Automatically search when relevant, or let the agent decide

  • Top Results (Top-K): How many knowledge chunks to retrieve (1-10)

  • Relevance Threshold: Minimum similarity score (0-1)

  • Query Rewrite: Optimize user questions for better retrieval

  • Reranking: Re-score results for maximum relevance

Example: A product support agent can instantly search through 1,000 product manuals to answer technical questions.

📚 Complete Knowledge Configuration Guide →

4. Workflow Tools (Actions)

What it controls: Workflows your agent can execute as actions during conversations How it works:

  • Connect existing workflows from your project

  • Agent automatically calls the workflow when needed

  • Results are returned to the conversation

Configuration options:

  • Workflow Selection: Choose which workflow to execute

  • Tool Description: Define when and how the agent should use this workflow

  • Timeout: 1-300 seconds per execution (default: 150s)

  • Input Config: Pre-fill constant values, security constraints, or workspace context

Example: A sales agent can execute a "Create Lead" workflow that adds prospects to your CRM automatically during conversations.

📚 Complete Workflow Tools Configuration Guide →

5. MCP Tools (300+ Integrations)

What it controls: External tools and services your agent can use via the Model Context Protocol Available categories:

  • CRM systems (Salesforce, HubSpot)

  • Databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB)

  • Cloud storage (Google Drive, Dropbox, S3)

  • Communication (Slack, Email, SMS)

  • Search engines and APIs

  • 300+ total integrations

Configuration:

  • Select which tools from each MCP client the agent can use

  • Set auto-run or request confirmation per tool

  • Configure timeouts (1-300 seconds)

  • Override authentication headers

Example: An assistant agent can search Google, check your calendar, send Slack messages, and update spreadsheets - all in one conversation.

📚 Complete MCP Tools Configuration Guide →

6. Plugin Tools (Direct Node Execution)

What it controls: Individual workflow nodes your agent can execute directly How it works:

  • Select specific nodes from the 193+ available workflow nodes

  • Agent executes the node with custom inputs

  • Perfect for simple, single-step actions

Popular plugins:

  • API calls to any REST endpoint

  • Data transformation and formatting

  • File operations

  • Text processing and extraction

View all 193+ available nodes →

Example: An agent can call a "Send Email" node directly without building an entire workflow.

📚 Complete Plugin Tools Configuration Guide →

7. Sub-Agents (Agent Delegation)

What it controls: Other agents your agent can delegate tasks to How it works:

  • Create specialized agents for different tasks

  • Main agent routes requests to the right specialist

  • Sub-agents complete tasks and report back

Use cases:

  • Technical support agent → Escalates to billing specialist agent

  • Intake agent → Routes to sales, support, or account management

  • General assistant → Delegates research to research specialist

Example: A main receptionist agent delegates appointment scheduling to a calendar agent and customer inquiries to a support agent.

📚 Complete Sub-Agents Configuration Guide →

Learn more → for full multi-agent orchestration

8. Code Execution (Python Sandbox)

What it controls: The agent's ability to write and run Python code Capabilities:

  • Perform calculations and data analysis

  • Process files and text

  • Generate charts and visualizations

  • Execute custom logic

Security:

  • Runs in isolated sandbox environment

  • Optional file system access (restricted to project Drive)

Example: A data analyst agent can load a CSV, perform statistical analysis, and generate a summary report with charts.

📚 Complete Code Execution Configuration Guide →

9. File Attachments (Multi-Modal Input)

What it controls: What types of files users can send to your agent Supported formats:

  • Images (JPEG, PNG, GIF, WEBP)

  • Documents (PDF, Word, text)

  • Audio files

  • Video files

Configuration:

  • Max files per message: 1-10 (default: 5)

  • Max file size: 1-50MB per file (default: 10MB)

Example: A support agent can analyze screenshots of errors, a design agent can critique uploaded images, or a transcription agent can process audio recordings.

📚 Complete Chat Features Configuration Guide →

10. Task Management

What it controls: Whether your agent can create, track, and manage tasks Capabilities:

  • Create tasks during conversations

  • Assign tasks to users or teams

  • Track task status and completion

  • Link conversations to tasks

Use cases:

  • Support agents creating follow-up tickets

  • Sales agents tracking action items

  • Project assistants organizing work

Example: During a support conversation, the agent creates a task for the engineering team to investigate a bug report.

📚 Complete Task Management Configuration Guide →

11. Structured Output (Schema Validation)

What it controls: Format agent responses as structured JSON data How it works:

  • Define a JSON schema for the response format

  • Agent always returns data matching your schema

  • Perfect for feeding into other systems

Use cases:

  • Extract structured data from unstructured text

  • Generate forms and database records

  • Return consistent API responses

  • Integrate with business systems

Example: A lead qualification agent always returns responses in this format:

{
  "lead_name": "John Smith",
  "company": "Acme Corp",
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "qualified": true,
  "interest_level": "high",
  "next_steps": "Schedule demo"
}

How Agents Work Behind the Scenes

Understanding how agents think and operate helps you build better AI assistants.

Conversation Threads

Every agent interaction happens in a thread - a persistent conversation:

  • Automatic Creation: Threads are created automatically when a user starts chatting

  • Title Generation: Threads can auto-generate titles based on the conversation

  • History Preservation: All messages are saved and available for context

  • Multiple Conversations: Each user can have multiple separate threads with the same agent

How Agents Think (ReAct Pattern)

Agents use a sophisticated reasoning process:

  1. Understand the user's message and intent

  2. Reason about what information or actions are needed

  3. Act by using tools, searching knowledge, or executing workflows

  4. Observe the results of those actions

  5. Respond with a helpful answer

This cycle can repeat multiple times in a single response. You can control how many steps an agent can take with the recursion limit (10-100 steps, default: 25).

Streaming Responses

Agents stream responses in real-time, just like ChatGPT:

  • See responses appear word-by-word

  • Track tool usage as it happens

  • Cancel long-running responses if needed

  • Get immediate feedback, not delayed replies

Smart Context Management

Agents automatically manage conversation history:

  • Context Window: The amount of conversation history the agent can "see"

  • Automatic Trimming: Old messages are removed when the context gets too large

  • Token Counting: System tracks exactly how much context is used

Suggested Replies (Optional)

Enable this feature to have the agent suggest follow-up questions or actions after each response. This uses additional credits but creates a more interactive experience.


Agent Templates & Marketplace

Start faster with pre-configured agent templates.

Popular Templates:

  • Customer Support Agent - Answer questions, look up orders, create tickets

  • Sales Assistant - Qualify leads, schedule demos, provide product info

  • Research Assistant - Search knowledge bases, summarize documents, cite sources

  • Code Helper - Debug code, explain functions, write documentation

  • Content Creator - Draft emails, write social posts, create marketing copy

  • Data Analyst - Analyze datasets, create visualizations, generate reports

  • Personal Assistant - Manage calendar, send reminders, organize tasks

  • Knowledge Base Q&A - Answer questions from company documentation

Creating Templates

Turn your own agents into reusable templates:

  1. Build and test your agent

  2. Save as template (private, workspace, or public)

  3. Add example conversations to help others understand usage

  4. Share in the marketplace or keep private for your team


Building Great Agents: Best Practices

Learn from what works. Follow these proven patterns for success.

Writing Effective System Prompts

Be Specific About the Role

✅ Good: "You are a customer service agent for Acme Corp's software products.
You help users troubleshoot technical issues, process refunds, and escalate
complex problems to human agents."

❌ Vague: "You are a helpful assistant."

Set Clear Boundaries

✅ Good: "You can help with order status, returns, and general product questions.
For billing disputes or account changes, escalate to a human agent.
Never share customer data or make promises about features we don't have."

❌ Unclear: "Help users with whatever they need."

Include Examples of Good Interactions Show the agent how you want it to behave with 2-3 example conversations in your system prompt.

Use Personality Consistently Pick a tone (professional, friendly, technical, casual) and maintain it throughout the system prompt.

Choosing the Right Tools

Less is More Only add tools the agent actually needs. Each tool:

  • Increases response time (agent has to consider it)

  • Uses more credits (larger prompts)

  • Adds complexity (more things that can go wrong)

Maximum 50 tools per agent

Use Clear Tool Descriptions The agent decides which tool to use based on descriptions. Make them specific:

✅ Good: "Get customer order status by order ID. Returns shipping status,
tracking number, and estimated delivery."

❌ Vague: "Order lookup tool."

Choose Execution Mode Carefully

  • Auto-Run: For safe, read-only operations (lookup order, search knowledge)

  • Request Confirmation: For actions that change data (send email, create ticket, charge credit card)

Setting Appropriate Limits

Recursion Limit: How many steps the agent can take

  • Low (10-15): Simple Q&A agents, minimal tool use

  • Medium (20-30): Standard agents with moderate complexity (default: 25)

  • High (40-100): Research agents, complex multi-step tasks

Timeouts: How long tools can run

  • Short (10-30s): Quick API calls, database queries

  • Medium (60-120s): File processing, email sending

  • Long (180-300s): Complex workflows, data analysis

Temperature Settings for Different Use Cases

  • 0.0-0.2: Deterministic, consistent responses (customer support, data extraction)

  • 0.3-0.5: Balanced creativity and consistency (general assistants)

  • 0.6-0.8: More creative responses (content creation, brainstorming)

  • 0.9-1.0: Maximum creativity (creative writing, idea generation)


Deploying Your Agent

Once you've built and tested your agent, make it available to users.

Sharing Options

1. Web Chat Widget Embed your agent directly into your website. Users chat without leaving your site.

2. Public Chat URL Share a direct link to your agent. Anyone with the link can start a conversation (if agent is public).

3. Messaging Platform Integration Publish your agent to:

  • Discord - Automated server support and community engagement

  • Slack - Internal knowledge assistant and workflow automation

  • Telegram - Customer support and notifications

  • WhatsApp - Direct customer communication

Cost: 100 credits per platform publish

4. Webhooks & Triggers Trigger agent conversations from external events:

  • Form submissions on your website

  • Incoming emails

  • Scheduled tasks

  • Third-party app events

Testing Before Launch

The Testing Checklist:

  1. Basic Conversation - Start a chat, ensure agent responds

  2. Conversation Starters - Test every suggested prompt

  3. Knowledge Retrieval - Ask questions that require searching your knowledge base

  4. Tool Execution - Trigger each tool at least once

  5. Error Handling - Try to break it (invalid inputs, nonsense questions)

  6. Edge Cases - Test boundary conditions (very long messages, multiple file attachments)

  7. Multi-Turn Conversations - Have a 10+ message conversation to test context

  8. Privacy - Verify the agent doesn't share sensitive information


Monitoring & Optimization

Track performance and continuously improve your agent.

Key Metrics to Monitor

Usage Metrics:

  • Conversations per day/week

  • Messages per conversation

  • Active users

  • Peak usage times

Quality Metrics:

  • Average response time

  • Tool success rate

  • Knowledge retrieval accuracy

  • User satisfaction (if you collect feedback)

Cost Metrics:

  • Credits consumed per conversation

  • Cost per message

  • Most expensive tools/models

  • Token usage trends

Optimization Strategies

If responses are too slow:

  • Reduce number of tools

  • Lower recursion limit

  • Switch to a faster model (GPT-4o Mini, Claude Sonnet)

  • Reduce knowledge base size

  • Disable query rewrite and reranking

If costs are too high:

  • Use smaller models for simple tasks (GPT-4o Mini instead of GPT-4)

  • Reduce max_tokens limit

  • Disable suggested replies

  • Use cheaper models for knowledge retrieval

  • Optimize system prompt length

If knowledge retrieval is poor:

  • Enable query rewrite

  • Adjust top-k (try 5-7 instead of 3)

  • Lower relevance threshold (try 0.5 instead of 0.7)

  • Enable reranking

  • Restructure knowledge base documents

  • Try hybrid search instead of semantic-only: reranking is automatically use when hybrid search is on.

If tool usage is unreliable:

  • Improve tool descriptions

  • Reduce total number of tools

  • Add examples to system prompt

  • Use request confirmation for critical tools

  • Increase tool timeouts


Core Platform Features

Enterprise & Deployment

Learning Resources

Support


Quick Reference

Essential Settings at a Glance

Setting
Purpose
Recommended Default

Model

AI model selection

GPT-4o Mini or Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Temperature

Creativity vs. consistency

0.1 (consistent) to 0.7 (creative)

Recursion Limit

Max reasoning steps

25 steps

Tool Timeout

Max tool execution time

150 seconds

Top-K (Knowledge)

Knowledge chunks to retrieve

5 results

Search Strategy

Knowledge search method

Hybrid search

Max Tokens

Response length limit

Model default

Execution Mode

Tool auto-run behavior

Auto-run (safe tools), Request confirmation (data-changing tools)

Common Agent Types & Settings

Customer Support Agent:

  • Model: GPT-4o Mini (fast, cost-efficient)

  • Temperature: 0.2 (consistent, professional)

  • Knowledge: Product docs, FAQs, policies

  • Tools: CRM lookup, ticket creation

  • Recursion limit: 20

Sales Assistant:

  • Model: Claude 3.5 Sonnet (conversational)

  • Temperature: 0.4 (balanced)

  • Knowledge: Product catalog, pricing, case studies

  • Tools: CRM, calendar, email

  • Recursion limit: 30

Research Assistant:

  • Model: GPT-4 (highest quality reasoning)

  • Temperature: 0.3 (accurate)

  • Knowledge: Large knowledge bases, documents

  • Tools: Web search, scholar search

  • Recursion limit: 50

Data Analyst:

  • Model: GPT-4o (data handling)

  • Temperature: 0.1 (precise)

  • Knowledge: Data dictionaries, analysis guides

  • Tools: Code execution, file system

  • Recursion limit: 40

Content Creator:

  • Model: Claude 3 Opus (creative writing)

  • Temperature: 0.7 (creative)

  • Knowledge: Brand guidelines, style guides

  • Tools: None (pure generation)

  • Recursion limit: 15


Next Steps

Just Starting?

  1. Try a Template - Start with a pre-built agent

Ready to Build?

  1. Configure System Prompt - Define personality and behavior

  2. Select AI Model - Choose the right model

  3. Connect Knowledge - Add your documents and data

  4. Add Workflow Tools - Connect workflows as actions

  5. Add MCP Tools - Connect to external systems

  6. Enable Drive Access - Access file storage

  7. Set Up Triggers - Configure how to invoke your agent

  8. Configure Sharing - Make it available to users

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