# Setting up your AI agent

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This feature is currently in Beta. Please reach out to Support to find out more. 
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AI Agents consist of triggers, instructions, skills, tools, and connections. Give your AI Agent instructions in plain text, making it easy to tell your agent what to do. Break the instructions into Skills to help streamline the creation of your agents and allows you to reuse information for other agents. 

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### Create your AI Agents

Give your AI Agent a name and select an icon
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### Give your agent a general personality

Go to Settings and give your agent a tone and sets of behaviors to follow when completing any tasks created within the agent. 
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### Create a set of instructions

1. Select **Add Instructions**
2. Give your instructions a name and icon
3. Select a [**Trigger**](https://docs.stackerhq.com/stacker-astra/ai-and-automations/ai-agents-beta/agent-triggers) for your AI Agent
4. Provide [**Operating Instructions**](https://docs.stackerhq.com/stacker-astra/ai-and-automations/ai-agents-beta/operating-instructions)
5. Select [**Skills**](https://docs.stackerhq.com/stacker-astra/ai-and-automations/ai-agents-beta/skills)
6. Select [**Tools**](https://docs.stackerhq.com/stacker-astra/ai-and-automations/ai-agents-beta/tools)
7. Configure a [**Renderer**](https://docs.stackerhq.com/stacker-astra/ai-and-automations/ai-agents-beta/renderer)
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# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://docs.stackerhq.com/stacker-astra/ai-and-automations/ai-agents-beta/setting-up-your-ai-agent.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.