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Describe the job. Give it tools. It figures out the rest.

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What is an agent?

An agent is someone you brief rather than something you configure. You write down the job in plain language, give it access to the apps it needs, and it handles the work as it arrives.

Each time it runs, it reads the situation, decides which tools to use, and keeps going until the job is done. Two similar cases can be handled differently, the same way a colleague would treat them differently.

Flow or agent?

FlowAgent
The logic isWritten down onceWorked out each run
Same input twiceSame steps every timeMay handle it differently
Best whenYou know the procedureThe work varies

What it can do

<CardGroup cols={2}> <Card title="Reach every app you use" icon="grid-2" color="#8143E3" href="/agents/tools"> Any action from 760+ pieces becomes a tool it can call. </Card> <Card title="Know your material" icon="book" color="#F59E0B" href="/agents/knowledge"> Answers grounded in your documents and tables. </Card> <Card title="Work inside a flow" icon="sitemap" color="#16A34A" href="/agents/in-flows"> Run one as a step and get structured data back. </Card> <Card title="Start from a sentence" icon="pen" color="#0EA5E9" href="/agents/create"> Say what you need and the agent gets written for you. </Card> </CardGroup>