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Use this guide to turn one customer-support job into a tested AI Agent.

Before you begin

Connect the channel and business systems the agent needs. Then decide:
  • which customer problem the agent should handle
  • which channels it should work on
  • what should start it
  • which data and actions it needs
  • when it should ask for human approval
  • when it should escalate

Create an AI Agent

Ask Torben turns your support goal into a draft with instructions, triggers, skills, actions, and tests.
1

Open AI Agents

Go to AIAI Agents, or open the AI Agents overview.
2

Start with Ask Torben

Click New agent, choose a template, or open Ask Torben. Edit the prompt before sending if needed.
3

Describe the job

Explain what customers ask, what a successful outcome looks like, and when a person must take over.
4

Review the draft

Check the instructions, triggers, skills, actions, and approval settings. Connect any missing integration or MCP connection.
5

Choose a model

Use GPT 5.6 Luna. It is the recommended default and is sufficient for supported customer-support use cases, including multi-step jobs with lookups, updates, delays, follow-ups, and escalation.
6

Test with real scenarios

Test realistic happy paths, missing data, exceptions, and messages that should go to a person.
7

Activate gradually

Require approval for sensitive actions at first. Review run history before giving the agent more autonomy.
Agent-specific links contain private route IDs. Open the agent from the overview, then use its Runs and Tests tabs.

Best practices

  • Start with one clear job per agent.
  • Combine exact filters with a clear description of customer intent.
  • Give the agent explicit escalation rules.
  • Require approval for refunds, cancellations, and other sensitive changes.
  • Use tests for both expected and edge-case customer messages.
  • Review early runs before enabling more automatic behavior.
Ask Torben can diagnose a run and improve the agent when a test or live ticket behaves unexpectedly.
Next, learn how routing and conversational ownership work.