What is conversational building
Conversational building lets you create, update, and archive agents and skills directly from a conversation. Instead of opening the Agent Builder or the Skill Builder, you describe what you want and the agent prepares the changes for you. It relies on the Build Agents and Skills skill. Type/ in the conversation input and select Build Agents and Skills to give the agent this capability.
Everything you can do by hand in the builders, you can also do through a conversation: write instructions, add tools, knowledge, and skills, change the model, rename, or delete.
How it works
The agent suggests, you decide
The agent never changes an agent or a skill on its own. Each change it wants to make shows up in the conversation as a suggestion card. Nothing happens until you accept the card.One card can hold several changes
A card groups changes that belong together. For example, a single card can add a skill to an agent and update the agent’s instructions to explain when to use that skill. You accept or decline the whole set at once. When a request involves separate changes, the agent suggests several cards. They pile up in the conversation, and you review them one by one.Review the changes
You can review a suggestion in two places:- In the card: see a summary of the proposed changes directly in the conversation.
- In the side panel: open the agent or skill to see the changes in the context of its full configuration.
Changes apply immediately
When you accept a card, the changes are applied right away:- A newly created agent or skill is available immediately.
- An update creates a new version of the agent or skill.
Permissions
The agent acts on your behalf and can only do what you can do yourself. Depending on the change, you need:- The permission to create agents
- The permission to create skills
- To be an editor of the agent or skill, to update or delete it.
Examples
Getting started
- “Create an agent that reads my calendar and prepares a summary of my meetings for the week.”
- “Create a skill that writes customer-facing release notes following our tone of voice.”
- “Add the web search tool to @research and explain in its instructions when to use it.”
- “Delete my old test-agent.”
Advanced use cases
Builders and admins can use conversational building to manage agents and skills across the workspace:- “Rename all agents to follow our naming convention: team name first, then purpose.”
- “Find all agents that use the GitHub tool, extract how they use it into a shared skill, then add that skill to each of these agents in place of the tool.”
- “Find all agents still using an older model and switch them to the latest one.”