Agents
A Strongly agent is a persistent AI assistant with its own memory, rules, and tools. You chat with it through the Strongly UI, your own apps, or the API. The platform handles deployment, lifecycle, and scale -- you focus on what the agent should do.
Two ways to build an agent
| Path | Best for |
|---|---|
| Agent Builder wizard | New agents authored from scratch. Pick a model, write a personality, wire in tools, seed starter content. |
| Promote from workflow | You already built a workflow with an agent node. Promote it to a deployable agent. |
Both paths produce the same kind of agent. The wizard is faster for new work; promotion is the right call when you have an existing workflow that already does what you want.
What you configure
| Setting | What it controls |
|---|---|
| Model | Which AI model powers the agent, plus optional fallbacks the runtime promotes if the primary is unhealthy. |
| Capabilities | What the agent is allowed to do. |
| Personality | The agent's voice, tone, and style. |
| Operating Prompt | The long-form instructions for how the agent should use its tools, memory, and rules. |
| Context Policy | How the agent fits long conversations into the model's context window. |
| Heartbeat | The agent's autonomous background loop. |
| Session Policy | Idle timeout, max session length, concurrent-session limits per user. |
| Connect data sources and tools | The data sources, add-ons, and tools the agent can reach. |
| Channels | Where the agent is reachable (for example a website embed). |
| Knowledge | Documents and knowledge the agent can draw on. |
Each setting has its own section in Agent Settings once the agent is deployed -- open it from the gear icon on the agent's row. Memory, rules, skills, tasks, and preferences seeded in the wizard are editable at any time from the Library.
Reference templates
Three reference templates, built and maintained by Strongly, can pre-fill the wizard: Iris (personal assistant), Atlas (research assistant), and Sage (support assistant). Walk the wizard, review the pre-filled values, and edit anything before submit. Ready-made packaged agents are also available to install from the Marketplace.
Operating an agent
After deploy, each agent has its own page in the Strongly UI with:
- Chat -- talk to the agent.
- Sessions -- see who's chatting right now, end / pause / transfer sessions.
- Tasks, Threads, Logs -- agent activity and history.
- Settings -- change any setting from the build process.