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Creating your first agent in the Agent Builder

Creating your first agent in the Agent Builder

From the course: Creating Agents with Python and the AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code

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Creating your first agent in the Agent Builder

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We're now ready to create the Sales Insight agent. Within the AI toolkit, the first thing that we'll want to do is navigate to the Agent Builder which is located under Agent and Workflow Tools. I'll go ahead and close this up so we can have a bit more space. This is the Agent Builder. Here within the Agent Builder is where we will be creating the agent and also testing the agent as well. On the left-hand side, we have basic information about the agent itself, such as the agent's name, the model that we're going to use, the instructions, also known as the system prompt. If there are any variables that we want to add, which just enables us to leverage that variable value to have dynamic values in the instructions, and then any tools that we're going to connect, such as the MCP server that we'll connect later in another section of this course. On the right-hand side, we have the playground as well as where we can also evaluate the agent's responses. We'll get to evaluations later, but…

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