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Agent Components

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Create and configure the pieces that make up an agent: its intellect (the agent's config), tools, knowledge base, avatar, and the agent record that ties them together.

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Agent Components · Create and Configure an Intellect Generate an Agent Profile, Create an Intellect, Configure an Intellect (prompts, base_directive, model, opening phrase, thread-start tools, session summary, capabilities table)
Agent Components · Preview a Prompt Preview a Prompt: render the assembled system prompt client-side before shipping an edit
Agent Components · Tools and Secrets Tools (api/csv/code/client/var), Secrets
Agent Components · Ground the Agent in Your Content (RAG) Ground the Agent in Your Content (RAG): knowledge records, sources, indexing status
Agent Components · Create an Avatar and an Agent Create an Avatar, Create an Agent

Lifecycle (event-driven rules) has its own doc: Lifecycle Rules.

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