AI Agent

When to Use

Use this skill when building AI-powered conversational agents that automatically respond to inbound messages. Covers agent setup, provider selection, flows, tools, and knowledge bases (RAG).

Architecture

Inbound message -> Flow check (keyword/intent match?)
                     -> YES: Execute flow steps
                     -> NO: LLM call with system prompt + context + KB
                -> Agent generates response -> Send reply

Create Agent

Each sender can have one agent:

const result = await zavu.senders.agent.create({
  senderId: "snd_abc123",
  name: "Customer Support",
  provider: "openai",
  model: "gpt-4o-mini",
  systemPrompt: "You are a helpful customer support agent for Acme Corp. Be friendly, concise, and helpful. If you don't know the answer, say so.",
  apiKey: "sk-...",
  contextWindowMessages: 10,
  includeContactMetadata: true,
  triggerOnChannels: ["sms", "whatsapp"],
  triggerOnMessageTypes: ["text"],
});
console.log(result.agent.id); // agent_xxx

Python:

result = zavu.senders.agent.create(
    sender_id="snd_abc123",
    name="Customer Support",
    provider="openai",
    model="gpt-4o-mini",
    system_prompt="You are a helpful customer support agent...",
    api_key="sk-...",
)

Provider & Model Selection

Update & Toggle Agent

// Update configuration
await zavu.senders.agent.update({
  senderId: "snd_abc123",
  systemPrompt: "Updated prompt...",
  temperature: 0.7,
  maxTokens: 500,
});

// Enable/disable
await zavu.senders.agent.update({
  senderId: "snd_abc123",
  enabled: false,
});

Conversational Flows

Flows handle structured conversations (keyword triggers, data collection):

const result = await zavu.senders.agent.flows.create({
  senderId: "snd_abc123",
  name: "Lead Capture",
  description: "Capture lead information from interested prospects",
  trigger: {
    type: "keyword",
    keywords: ["info", "pricing", "demo"],
  },
  steps: [
    {
      id: "welcome",
      type: "message",
      config: { text: "Thanks for your interest! Let me get some info." },
      nextStepId: "ask_name",
    },
    {
      id: "ask_name",
      type: "collect",
      config: { variable: "name", prompt: "What's your name?" },
      nextStepId: "ask_email",
    },
    {
      id: "ask_email",
      type: "collect",
      config: { variable: "email", prompt: "What's your email?" },
      nextStepId: "confirm",
    },
    {
      id: "confirm",
      type: "message",
      config: { text: "Thanks {{name}}! We'll reach out at {{email}}." },
    },
  ],
  enabled: true,
  priority: 10,
});

Trigger Types

Step Types

Flow Operations

// List flows
const flows = await zavu.senders.agent.flows.list({ senderId: "snd_abc123" });

// Update flow
await zavu.senders.agent.flows.update({
  senderId: "snd_abc123",
  flowId: "flow_abc123",
  enabled: false,
});

// Duplicate flow
await zavu.senders.agent.flows.duplicate({
  senderId: "snd_abc123",
  flowId: "flow_abc123",
  newName: "Lead Capture (Copy)",
});

// Delete flow
await zavu.senders.agent.flows.delete({
  senderId: "snd_abc123",
  flowId: "flow_abc123",
});

Webhook Tools

Tools let the agent call your backend during conversations:

const result = await zavu.senders.agent.tools.create({
  senderId: "snd_abc123",
  name: "get_order_status",
  description: "Get the current status of a customer order",
  webhookUrl: "https://api.example.com/webhooks/order-status",
  webhookSecret: "whsec_...",
  parameters: {
    type: "object",
    properties: {
      order_id: { type: "string", description: "The order ID to look up" },
    },
    required: ["order_id"],
  },
});

// Test tool
await zavu.senders.agent.tools.test({
  senderId: "snd_abc123",
  toolId: "tool_abc123",
  testParams: { order_id: "ORD-12345" },
});

Knowledge Bases (RAG)

Add documents for the agent to reference via retrieval-augmented generation:

// Create knowledge base
const kb = await zavu.senders.agent.knowledgeBases.create({
  senderId: "snd_abc123",
  name: "Product FAQ",
  description: "Frequently asked questions about our products",
});

// Add document
await zavu.senders.agent.knowledgeBases.documents.create({
  senderId: "snd_abc123",
  kbId: kb.knowledgeBase.id,
  title: "Return Policy",
  content: "Our return policy allows returns within 30 days of purchase...",
});

// List documents
const docs = await zavu.senders.agent.knowledgeBases.documents.list({
  senderId: "snd_abc123",
  kbId: kb.knowledgeBase.id,
});

Monitoring

// Get agent stats
const stats = await zavu.senders.agent.stats({ senderId: "snd_abc123" });
console.log(`Invocations: ${stats.totalInvocations}`);
console.log(`Tokens: ${stats.totalTokensUsed}`);
console.log(`Cost: $${stats.totalCost}`);

// List executions
const executions = await zavu.senders.agent.executions.list({
  senderId: "snd_abc123",
  status: "error",
  limit: 20,
});
for (const exec of executions.items) {
  console.log(exec.id, exec.status, exec.errorMessage);
}

Delete Agent

await zavu.senders.agent.delete({ senderId: "snd_abc123" });

Constraints

• One agent per sender
• System prompt: max 10,000 characters
• Context window: 1-50 messages
• Temperature: 0-2
• Max tokens: 1-4,096
• Tool name: max 100 characters
• Tool description: max 500 characters
• Document content: max 100,000 characters
• Knowledge base name: max 100 characters
• Provider zavu doesn't require an API key (uses Zavu-hosted models)
• All other providers require your own API key