Quick start for vibe coders
This guide will show you how to build your first agent with the Toolhouse Agent Studio.
Step 1: Describe your agent
First, navigate to Agent Studio. Then, press Create new Agent.
You will find a chatbot like interface like this.
In the chat box you can describe what you want the agent to do, Toolhouse will write the agent for you. Make sure you are specific with your demands.
Channel your inner prompt engineer
Agent Studio helps you write the right prompt for your agents. You will just need to start in your own words, adding any details you may feel relevant.
Example of prompts (with breakdown)
No one was born a prompt-engineer on their first day
Remember: you can have a natural conversation with Agent Studio, and add as many details as you can, even after it generates your first prompt.
Give your agent an exit strategy. For example, you can tell Agent Studio "if the agent is searching the web, limit it to 5 results"
Tell your agent what it should do or should not do. For example, you can tell Agent Studio: "never show results from apartments.com"
Give your agent a tone, a voice, a personality. If you need, you can make the agent respond in a particular way. Try telling Agent Studio: "always make the agent ask a followup question"
Step 2: Run your agent
Once you've prompted your agent, you can run it to see how it responds.
When you run the agent it will reply to your first message (which you can see at the bottom of the YAML file, usually after system_prompt).
The message is what the agent will use as instructions when it runs the first time you press Run.
Step 3: Publish your agent
If the agent you built is satisfactory, press deploy to make it live.
If not, then you can continue chatting with the agent studio to refine it.
At any point you can click Publish to publish your agent. Publishing your agent will make it available for use, so you can call the agent directly or integrate it with other tools you're using.
You will find your published agents under the Agents tab.
Step 4: Integrating your agent
When your agent has been published you can start using it immediately.
Use your agent immediately
Each agent comes with a built-in chat interface, hosted by Toolhouse. This chat allows you and your end users to interact with your agent without the need to build from scratch.
To use it, simply click Publish, then click the Agent interface link:
Once you click it you will be redirected to an Agent interface where you can interact with your agent, just like ChatGPT, except it's already connected to all the MCP servers Toolhouse offers by default.
Schedule your Agent for later
Toolhouse allows you to schedule agents so they can run at certain intervals.
To do so, click Publish, then can go to the Schedule tab.
All you need to do from here is set a schedule for your agent to run and click Create schedule.
Examples of agents you can schedule
Find me trending AI events in SF and send an email to [insert your email here]Vibe code your frontend
Navigate to the Lovable or Bolt tabs under the Agent Deployment Success section, then press the clipboard icon to copy the prompt.
Go to Lovable or Bolt and paste your prompt, then press Enter.
You will build an app that's automatically connected to Toolhouse. You can continue to build your project from there with Lovable, but your backend is now up and running!
Get Help
You can find help from our AI support agent live: our help chatbot can answer any questions.
Alternatively you can join us on Discord where the Toolhouse team and the community will help you out.
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