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 |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| Model + fallbacks | Which AI model powers the agent, plus optional fallback models if the primary is unhealthy. |
| Context policy | How the agent fits long conversations into the model's context window. |
| Session policy | Idle timeout, max session length, concurrent-session limits per user. |
| Memory, rules, skills, tasks, preferences | The starter content the agent loads on day one. Editable at any time. |
Each setting has its own tab in Agent Settings once the agent is deployed.
Reference templates
- Iris — a ready-to-use personal assistant template available from the wizard's "Start from Iris" option. Walk the wizard, review the pre-filled values, edit anything before submit.
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.