Introducing Sidekick: Your AI Assistant for Building Better Agents

🎯 What is it?

Sidekick is a new AI assistant integrated directly into the Agent Builder. Instead of starting from a blank canvas, you can now describe what you want your agent to do in natural language, and Sidekick will draft the instructions, recommend the right tools and skills, and suggest improvements. All changes appear as reviewable inline diffs—you accept what works and reject what doesn't. You remain in complete control.

💡 Why is it useful?

Building effective agents often requires expertise in prompt engineering and deep knowledge of available tools. Sidekick removes this barrier by translating your intent into working agent configurations. It also helps you iterate faster by analyzing feedback, usage patterns, and suggesting concrete improvements to existing agents.

⚙ How does it work?

Sidekick understands context. When you describe what you need, it may ask clarifying questions, then generates a complete agent configuration. For existing agents, it reads your current setup, reviews performance data, and proposes specific enhancements as inline suggestions you can approve or dismiss with one click.

✨ Concrete Use Cases

Here's how you could use it:

Creating a new agent: Describe "I need an agent that monitors our #support channel and summarizes urgent tickets every morning" → Sidekick drafts the full configuration with appropriate data sources and scheduling.

Improving existing agents: Open an underperforming sales research agent → Sidekick analyzes usage feedback and suggests "Add web search capability" and "Refine instructions to focus on competitor pricing" as reviewable changes.

Customizing templates: Select the "Meeting Summarizer" template → Instead of generic instructions, Sidekick asks about your meeting format and adapts the template to your team's specific needs.

Converting conversations: Had a productive back-and-forth with an agent? Use "Convert to agent" → Sidekick captures that conversation's tools, knowledge sources, and reasoning pattern into a reusable agent.

📈 Benefits for you

• Faster agent creation: Go from idea to working agent in minutes, not hours

• Better quality: Leverage best practices built into Sidekick's recommendations

• Continuous improvement: Get data-driven suggestions to optimize existing agents

• Lower barrier to entry: Build sophisticated agents without needing prompt engineering expertise

🚀 How to access it?

Sidekick is now available to all users directly in the Agent Builder. Open any agent or click "New Agent" to get started.

📚 Learn more: Agent Builder Sidekick documentation

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