Build an agent with AI

Build with AI turns a short, natural-language description into a starting agent draft — name, description, instructions, welcome message and conversation starters. Nothing is created until you review the draft and confirm.

Generate a draft

1. Open the form

   Go to Agents, click Create, and open the General section of the new agent form.

2. Open Build with AI

   Click Build with AI (sparkle icon) in the section header. The button only appears if you have permission to create or update agents in the project, and the project has a default LLM model configured.

3. Describe the agent

   Enter what the agent is for, what tasks it should handle, and any tone or constraints you want. Press Enter to generate (Shift+Enter adds a line break instead).

4. Review and edit

   Elitea returns a draft with Name (up to 32 characters), Description, Instructions, Welcome message (up to 768 characters) and up to four Conversation starters. Every field is editable before you create the agent. Use Back to prompt to revise your description and regenerate.

5. Create the agent

   Click Create Agent. The agent is created with the reviewed fields and the project’s default model, and the page opens on its Configuration tab for further setup.

Note

The review form also shows suggested toolkits, MCPs, pipelines, agents, and skills below the text fields, when the project has any that plausibly relate to the description you gave — a name/description match against the new draft, not an exhaustive search. Check the ones you want; unchecked suggestions are simply not shown, not hidden-but-attached.

Note

Suggested agents and pipelines are attached to the new agent when you check them and create it. Suggested toolkits, MCPs, and skills can be checked in the review form, but attaching them is not wired yet — checking one has no effect once the agent is created (tracked in #881). Attach a toolkit, MCP, or skill from the agent’s own Configuration tab after creating it instead.

The same generator is available for a skill (/skills/create) and for project context (Settings › public project context) — the underlying draft endpoint serves all three, so the same “describe it, review it, create it” flow applies there too. See Create and share a skill.

Edit instructions with AI

Once an agent exists, its Configuration tab’s General section can show an Edit with AI button next to the Instructions field. It needs a model configured on the agent’s version and an AI configuration the deployment has enabled; if either is missing, the button does not appear at all rather than failing on click.

1. Open the editor

   Click Edit with AI.

2. Describe the change

   Enter what you want changed about the instructions — for example, tightening scope or changing tone.

3. Review the diff

   Elitea proposes replacement instructions and shows a highlighted diff against the current text.

4. Apply

   Applying the suggestion fills in the Instructions field, the same way any manual edit would. Save the agent version afterward to keep the change.

This tool edits instructions only — it does not touch the name, welcome message, conversation starters, or attached toolkits/skills, and it has no separate “save as version” step of its own; use the agent’s normal version controls for that (see Version agents and pipelines).

Note

A chat conversation’s ”+” menu can also create a new agent directly, alongside attaching an existing one — it opens the same inline editor as /agents/create, and saving attaches the new agent to the conversation automatically. See Create and edit agents, pipelines, toolkits and MCPs from chat.

Guides and references

• Agents overview — creating and configuring agents manually
• Publish agents and skills
• Version agents and pipelines
• Toolkits overview