Use Agents

After creating an agent, you can chat with it directly in the Vectara Console.

Start chatting with agents

1. Navigate to Agents in the sidebar.
2. Click your agent name to open its details.
3. Click the Chat tab.
4. Type your question and press Enter.

That's it! The agent responds using its configured tools and instructions.

What you will see

When the agent responds, you see the following information:

• Your original question
• The agent's response
• Source citations (when applicable)
• Tool usage indicators (web search or corpus search)

Start a new conversation

Click New Session to start fresh without previous chat history.

Test your agent

Test your agent to see if it's working as expected:

1. Check that it's "Enabled" in the agents list
2. Verify your question matches the agent's configured tools
3. Try asking "What can you help with?"

For more examples, see Example Agents.