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Quick Start

To get started building an Agent, navigate to the Agents section in Clerk Chat and click “New Agent” 2025-11-17 15.47.55.gif

Trigger Setup

The default trigger is Incoming Message. You can read more about the various Trigger types in Triggers section, but the Incoming Message trigger will fire whenever the Agent receives a message attached to an RCS, WhatsApp or SMS Inbox.

AI Settings

Draw a line from the trigger node and select AI Text 2025-11-17 15.49.12.gif Write a prompt for your agent and select the model of your choice to use as the LLM. Clerk Chat support a variety of model providers. Extract the Response Add a new extraction variable that represents the response of your agent. Clerk Chat response variables are highly cusomizable, and can be used anywhere else in the Agent. 2025-11-17 15.53.29.gif Send a message Once you are finished drag another node from the AI node called send text, selecting the response variable as the value. 2025-11-17 15.54.11.gif

Test Your Agent

You are now ready to test your agent. Save the Agent and click the Chat button to converse with your agent. 2025-11-17 15.55.18.gif

Connect to an Inbox

Once you are satisfied with your agent, you can connect it to an RCS,SMS, WhatsApp Inbox by selecting the agent for the Inbox. 2025-11-17 15.56.31.gif