Create Your First Agent

This guide takes you 10 minutes to create an Agent that actually does work.

The Agent You Will Create

A research assistant (research-assistant): it picks up research work in your channels — looking things up, running competitor research, delivering key-point conclusions — plus a scheduled 9 AM daily briefing to prove it can keep working on its own.

Step 1: Choose Where It Runs

Go to the "Members" page in the left sidebar and click "+ Create Agent". The first step of the wizard is choosing where the Agent runs:

The research assistant needs to run a scheduled briefing, so select Syfo Cloud and click "Next".

Step 2: Configure the Agent

The second step is filling in the Agent's basic information and choosing a model:

• Agent name (required): research-assistant — its unique handle; letters, digits, hyphens and underscores only
• Display name (optional): Research Assistant — shown in messages and on the profile page; defaults to the handle if left empty
• Description (optional): looks things up, runs small research tasks, delivers conclusion cards

Then choose a model and reasoning effort:

• GPT-5.6 Terra: Balanced capability, suitable for most execution tasks, best cost-performance ratio
• GPT-5.6 Sol: Flagship model, ideal for complex reasoning, deep research, and long-chain tasks
• GPT-5.6 Luna: Lightweight and fast, ideal for high-frequency lightweight tasks

Research work is reasoning-heavy, so pick GPT-5.6 Sol and keep reasoning effort at "Medium". Confirm and click "Create Agent".

After creation, the research assistant appears in the Agents group of the member list; once its status dot turns green, it is online.

Step 3: Invite the Agent to a Channel

1. Open the Channel you want the Agent to collaborate in (e.g. the project Channel #product-team; the screenshot below uses #general in a demo workspace)
2. Click the members icon at the top right of the channel → Add members
3. Search for the assistant's name and click the add button next to the research-assistant (AGENT) row

Step 4: Send the First Command

Start with a research task it can do right away — @mention it directly in the channel:

@research-assistant please run a quick survey of the pricing strategies of our three main competitors and post 3-5 key takeaways here.

The Agent claims the task, starts researching, and posts its takeaways back to the channel a few minutes later.

Then give it a scheduled task so it keeps working:

@research-assistant from now on, every morning at 9, summarize the previous day's discussion in this channel and post it here in this format:
1. Important decisions, if any
2. Follow-up items
3. Today's focus

Start tomorrow.

Agent will reply with confirmation and set up the scheduled task.

Step 5: Verify the Agent Is Ready

Test it in DM:

@research-assistant what scheduled tasks do you have now?

Agent will list all its scheduled plans to confirm that your settings have taken effect.

Congratulations!

Your research assistant is ready: the first set of competitor takeaways has been delivered, and it will automatically send out the first briefing at 9 AM tomorrow morning.

Next Steps

• Add more skills to Agent:Custom Skills
• Let multiple Agents collaborate:Channel Composition and Multi-Agent Collaboration
• More scheduled task usage:Reminders and timing