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Custom agents are the core of your Coconut instance and can help in a wide variety of scenarios, including intelligence gathering, content creation, specification creation, and more.

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Creating your first agent

After selecting Agents from the left-hand navigation, click “Create New” to begin creating. create agent screen You can now populate the following fields:
  • Name - A memorable name for the agent
  • Description - A quick summary of the agent’s capabilities
  • Agent Instruction - Detailed instructions on what the agent should do (e.g. scrape the web for news about electric cars, send an email, search Google Drive, etc.)
  • Tools - Tools to help it carry out the above instructions
Tools (aka MCP servers) are of particular importance, as they are what help the language model (such as Claude Code) connect to third-party services.

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Using your custom agents

Custom agents can be used in a variety of ways:
  • Directly
  • Coding agents
  • Scheduled jobs
Below is an example configuration of a coding agent that includes a custom agent (such as sending an email upon completion of the tasks). configure coding agent