Getting started with Agents

Agents are powerful assistants that can be equipped with a variety of Skills. Skills (i.e. Tools) are designed to target different goals and address different challenges. This is how with AI workforce, we can expand beyond what is traditionally possible.

Experiment and feedback have proven that best Agents are created by domain experts. Domain expert have the knowledge to design Skills/Tools that are best tailored to companies’ specific needs. consequently, Agents equipped with custom Tool(s) are more successful in addressing company-specific challenges.

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Creating an Agent

Creating an Agent is a simple process, taking only a few minutes.

On the Agent page, click on the ”+ Create agent” button on the top right. This will prompt you to a page with two options:

• Build your Agent from scratch
• Use a template (i.e. most settings options are prefilled)

For this guide, we select “Sales Rep Sean”.

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Instruct your Agent

Every Agent has a resume that describes their skills and experience. For best results, it is very important to think through what we want from an Agent and to include precise instructions while in the configuration phase.

Each Agent has the following attributes:

• Name
• Emoji
• System prompt
• Suggested replies
• Welcome message

Sean is a sales rep. So, the system prompt describes the company he is working for and what he does. In this case, his job is to research companies and write personalized outreach emails for them. That is helpful :)

However, to take Sean to the next level, we need to give him some skills to be able to achieve his goals - just like us, Sean would not be able to research a company without a device, the internet and google. Let’s make sure he has the right skills for the job.

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Equip with Skills

Skills are ways for Agents to interact with other systems. They can be used to perform actions, retrieve information and more. In Relevance, Tools that you create are the skills with which you equip your Agents. This is extremely useful for two reasons:

1. Agents are not limited to or restricted by the available functionality on the platform; you can expand on any functionality that you desire.
2. The best Agents have skills created for them by domain experts in a specific company and for a specific use case.

For example, with Sean we have Skills for enriching leads with LinkedIn, google search and web browsing to begin. Start with these and toggle the ones you would give permission for auto-run (i.e. if the toggle is off, Sean will ask for permission to run the Skill each time it is needed).

When finished configuring Sean, start talking to him by clicking on the “Talk to Sales Rep Sean” button.

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Working with the Agent

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Conversation

We can talk with Agents on the conversation view page. The current conversation can be seen and followed on the right side of tha page.

There is a list of all conversation on the left. Click on + new chat button to start a new chat.

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Check Skills

Clicking on the <N> tools button in the chat window, we can see the list of Skills/Tools with which the agent is equipped.

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Provide an input file

Click on the paperclip icon and follow the upload wizard. This works by uploading your file to Relevance in a temporary location and sending the temporary file URL to the Agent in the conversation. The Agent knows how to pass the URL to Tools for analyzing the data.

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Skills/Tools execution

When permission for auto-run is granted, a notification indicating what Skill/Tool is being used/executed is shown. When a Skill/Tool requires permission to run, a question appears in the conversation asking you whether it can be executed or not.

And that’s it, with your conversation you can quickly achieve tasks that previously would have taken hours.

If you have any questions reach out to our team on in-app live chat or join our Discord community.