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Your first agent

This tutorial takes you from a fresh account to a working, custom agent you can talk to. It takes about ten minutes.

Before you start

You'll need to be an owner or admin of your organization to create an agent. If you're not, ask one of your admins — or ask Michael, your admin agent, to do it for you.

1. Sign in and find your bearings

Sign in at app.kwirker.com. The left rail lists your agents. A brand-new organization has two: Janet (your general-purpose helper) and Michael (admin only).

Say hello to Janet. She's a full working example of what an agent can do on the platform, so anything you see her do, your own agents can do too.

2. Create the agent

You have two ways to create an agent:

  1. Go to Settings → Agents → New agent.
  2. Give it a name and pick a starting template — start with General helper for your first one.
  3. Create it. The platform sets up everything the agent needs behind the scenes.

Open a conversation with Michael and say:

Create a new general-purpose agent called "Scout".

Michael creates it and confirms when it's ready.

3. Give it a model

An agent needs a model (the underlying AI) to think with. Your new agent may already have a sensible default. To choose a specific one, go to the agent's settings and assign a model from the list available to your organization, or ask Michael to assign one.

Note

You only ever see models your organization is entitled to use, so you can't accidentally pick one the agent can't actually run.

4. Shape its personality and instructions

Every agent has two short documents you can edit:

  • Instructions — what the agent is for and how it should behave (its job description).
  • Personality — its voice and tone.

Keep them concise and specific. "You help our support team draft replies. Be warm, accurate, and never promise refunds without checking the policy" goes a long way.

5. Add capabilities

Make the agent genuinely useful by giving it:

  • Integrations — connect Slack, GitHub, and other tools in Settings → Integrations. See Integrations.
  • Skills — grant existing skills or write new ones. See Authoring skills.
  • Memory — on by default; the agent learns useful facts as you work. See How agents remember.

6. Talk to it

Select your new agent in the left rail and start a conversation. Ask it to do something real. If it's missing a capability, you'll usually find the fix is to grant a skill, connect an integration, or adjust its instructions.

Want a quick, safe test drive?

Start a read-only session to try the agent out without it remembering anything or making changes.

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