Your first agent
Five steps from sign-up to an agent doing real work. Each step names the button to press.
Before you start
Signing up creates your workspace, named after you, with 5 credits to spend. A credit is a dollar, and a turn on the default grade, Standard, costs 0.02 credits, so that is about 250 turns. You land on Agents.
Five steps
Create it
Press + New agent. Describe the job in plain English in the box, then press Build my agent.
The agent exists from that moment, as version 1, and the Build screen opens on it. The Agent Builder turns your description into its instructions and gives it a short name for the job. Rename it any time with the pencil beside its name.
Want a head start? Choose or hire a ready-made one and pick from 71 agents built and maintained by AgentNava. Configure opens your own copy in the Build screen. New session starts using it straight away. A ready-made agent brings its instructions and workflows; you connect its apps yourself, in step 3.
Tell it how to work
In the Build screen, tell the Agent Builder what to change, for example "every Monday, find
invoices more than 30 days late and draft a polite reminder for each". Or edit the Spec tab
yourself: instructions.md says how the agent behaves, and workflows/ holds the named
procedures it follows.
Messages to the Agent Builder are free: they use none of your credit.
Connect the apps it needs
Open the Connections tab and add each app the agent should use, such as Gmail or Google Drive. Connect apps and data explains whose account it uses and what to do when a sign-in expires.
Publish, then test
Your edits wait in a draft. Press Publish to save them as the next version: v2, v3 and so on. Then press Test on the agent's page. It starts a session with the published version and its real tools, and each turn is charged.
Test always runs the published version, never the draft. So the order is: edit, Publish, Test.
Put it to work
Talk to it in a session, send its share link to your team, put it on your website, or give it a schedule in the Trigger tab. Put it to work compares the ways.
The screen at a glance
The rail on the left is the same on every page. On a phone it becomes a bar along the bottom, with the rest under More.
| In the rail | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Agents | Your agents. Each agent's page shows its last 7 days, its website chat and its sessions. |
| Connections | The app accounts your agents sign in with. Connect one once, then pick it in any agent. |
| Data | The knowledge bases and databases your agents read. |
| Billing | Your balance, what a turn costs, and buying credit. |
| Developer | API keys, for calling your agents from your own code. |
| Usage | Requests and spend, per API key. |
| Team | The people who share this account, their roles, and seats. |
| Settings | Your name, the workspace name, its identifiers, and deleting the account. |
Your initials at the bottom of the rail open Account settings (profile, password and two-factor) and Sign out. Projects, teams of agents working toward one goal, joins the rail when it is available to you.
When you are stuck
| You see | What to do |
|---|---|
| "This workspace is out of credit. Add more at agentnava.com/account-billing to keep your agents running." | Buy credit in Billing. See when the balance runs out. |
| "The sign-up form did not load." | A privacy extension, an ad blocker or blocked third-party cookies are the usual cause. A private window is the quickest way to tell. |
| "Could not load your agents just now." | Press Try again. |
| A test still behaves the old way | Press Publish first. Test runs the published version. |
Still stuck? Write to contact@agentnava.com or use the support form, and we reply by email.