The Agent Builder is where you configure every aspect of an agent. You open it by clicking an agent in the My Agents list or by clicking Create new agent (which goes toDocumentation Index
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/agents/builder/new).

- Top bar — back arrow, agent name (with quick actions), tab strip, Save and Release buttons.
- Tab panel (left) — the configuration surface. You can have up to six tabs pinned at once.
- Preview pane (right) — a live chat against your draft, or an Information view of the agent’s current config.
The top bar
From left to right:- ← Back arrow — returns you to
/agents. - Agent name — click the chevron next to the name to open a small menu with Tag, Share, and Delete actions. Edit the name itself from the Instructions tab.

- Tabs — a horizontal strip of the sections you’ve pinned. See below.
- Save — writes the current form values as a new draft version. Disabled when nothing has changed and on brand-new agents until required fields are filled.
- Release — opens the Publish dropdown. See Save & Release.
Some buttons fire “Please save the agent before [action]” toasts when you try to Tag, Share, or Delete a brand-new agent that hasn’t been saved yet.
The six tabs

Instructions
Name, icon, description, system prompt, model, prompt bubbles. Always pinned — you can’t remove it.
Tools
MCP connections, embedded services, agents-as-tools, workflows-as-tools.
Resources
Datastores, filestores, knowledge bases with Read / Write / Admin permissions.
Channels
Slack, Microsoft Teams, External (public URL).
Monitor
Replay this agent’s chats from inside the builder.
Advanced
Output Schema — structured JSON responses for API callers.
Pinning tabs
Only Instructions and Tools are pinned by default. Click the + at the end of the tab strip to pin Resources, Channels, Monitor, or Advanced. Pinned tabs persist across sessions. If a tab has validation errors, its label turns red.The Channels and Advanced tabs are hidden for Pinkfish’s built-in system agents.
The preview pane
The right side of the builder is a live sandbox against your current draft. It has two tabs:Test
The default view — a chat interface connected to the draft you’re editing. Type a message, watch the agent respond with the current instructions, model, and tools. This is where you validate changes before releasing.
“Save the agent first, then start a conversation to test it here.”Click + New Chat to clear the preview and start fresh — useful when you’ve changed instructions and want to see behavior from a clean starting point.
Information
The Information tab is a read-only summary of what the agent will actually do when invoked.
- Selected Model — the model label (e.g.
Sonnet 4.5). - Selected Tools (N) — tools you picked, grouped by server. Shows
All X toolswhen you’ve selected a server wholesale, or the exact tool names when you picked a subset. Expand rows with more than five tools via +N more. - Auto-selected Tools — built-in tools that every agent gets automatically (e.g. Write Artifact, Read Artifact, Run Code). These can’t be turned off.
- Selected Resources (N) — attached datastores/filestores/KBs with a Read / Write / Admin summary.
The full workflow
Open or create
Click a row in My Agents, or click Create new agent to land on
/agents/builder/new.Fill the Instructions tab
Name, instructions, icon, description, model. These are the minimum to save.
Pin the other tabs as needed
Click + to add Resources, Channels, Monitor, or Advanced. Configure each.
Iterate in Preview
Chat with the draft. Check the Information tab to confirm model, tools, and resources look right.
Related
- Save & Release — what Save vs Release actually does.
- Instructions — the first tab in detail.
- Monitor — the in-builder monitor, not the org-wide one.

