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Your first agent

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You signed up. Now what?

Go to Create, pick Anything, and describe what you need. Svortie decides whether to build an agent, a workflow, a schedule, or all three.

Summarize this week's top Hacker News posts about AI agents into a bullet-point briefing.

That's it. Hit Create, then Run.

What you get

Svortie generates an agent with a name, system prompt, task, model selection, and tool configuration. You can review all of this before running, or just hit Run and see what happens.

Understanding the settings

After generation, open the agent to see what Svortie configured. These live under Advanced Settings:

  • Model: usually Haiku (fast, cheap, good for most tasks). Svortie picks the model based on task complexity.
  • Max iterations: how many tool calls the agent can make before stopping. Default is 50.
  • Timeout: how long the agent can run. Default is 5 minutes.
  • Tools: command execution, file read/write, directory listing, file search. Web search if the task needs it.

Most agents work fine with defaults. Tweak if you need to, but don't feel obligated.

Reading the output

The agent spins up a sandbox, executes your task, and streams logs in real time. You see every tool call, every decision, every output.

When the run completes: files show up as downloadable artifacts, reports appear in the run output. Each run shows status, duration, and credit cost.

Iterating

First run shows what the agent understood. Adjust and re-run:

  • System prompt: tell it more about how you want things done
  • Task: be more specific about expected output
  • Tools: add web search if it needs internet access
  • Playbooks: attach structured instructions for repeatable quality

Two or three runs and it nails it.

Templates

If you'd rather start from a known-good configuration, go to Agents and click New agent. Templates for research, writing, code review, bug fixing, security audit, test generation, and code migration. Pick one and it pre-fills everything.

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