# Agents overview

An agent in Foxora is a worker with an identity, a brain, and a set of capabilities — not just a chat window. The Agents workbench is where you build them, wire their tools and skills, and put them to work.

## An agent, not a chatbot

A chatbot answers a message and stops. An agent does the work — it reads your real files, runs commands, searches the live web, drives a browser, and carries a multi-step task to done, pausing only when it needs a real decision from you. Every Foxora agent stands on the same operating core (the reasoning loop, planning, memory, and stopping rules). What makes one agent different from another is its identity (a persona), its role (which brain it routes to), and its capabilities (tools, skills, and connected apps).

## Anatomy of an agent

- Identity — a name, an icon, and a persona (the “soul”: how it describes itself, its personality, values, and voice).
- Role — the function it performs, picked from Foxora’s core roles. A role is a routing tag that decides which model the agent runs on. See Roles explained.
- Instructions — your own guidance, layered on top of the role’s built-in doctrine.
- Capabilities — tools, skills, and connected apps / MCP servers.
- Where it runs — surfaces (chat, code, web…) and external channels (Slack, email…).

## The Agents workbench

Open Agents from the sidebar. The workbench groups everything an agent is made of into three families:

### Workforce — who does the work

- Crews — teams of agents led by an orchestrator. See Crews.
- Agents — the agent library: Foxora’s built-ins plus the ones you create.
- Templates — pre-wired starting points. See Templates.

### Toolkit — what they’re made of

- Skills — reusable how-to playbooks an agent loads on demand. See Skills.
- Tools — the read-only catalogue of capabilities (filesystem, shell, web, vision, memory…). New capability comes from connecting apps, not authoring tools.
- Memory — the Memory Den, the shared long-term memory your agents draw on.
- Connections — apps and MCP servers that become live tools. Opens Settings → Connections.

### Work — what they run

- Tasks — work assigned to agents and crews.
- Runs — the queue and run history.
- Triggers — schedules, events, and webhooks that start an agent unattended.

> Two ways to buildClick + New agent and pick a path: Build with AI (describe it, Foxora drafts it) or Start from scratch (the manual editor). Both land in the same editor.