Quickstart
This guide takes you from opening Chat to having your first real conversation with an agent. If you haven't built an agent yet, there's a shortcut — the Meta-Agent can create one for you before you start.
Before you begin
You'll need a project with at least one agent configured in Flows. If you have that, you're ready. If not, skip to Build your first agent below.
Chat with an existing agent
Open Chat
Click Chat in the main navigation. If you've chatted before, the interface restores your last session automatically — you'll see the selector bar collapsed and the conversation ready to continue. Skip to step 3 if that's the case.
Select a project and agent
The selector bar at the top shows a Project dropdown and an Agent dropdown. Choose the project your agent belongs to, then pick the agent from the second dropdown.
Once both are selected, the bar hides itself — a banner at the bottom of the composer confirms which agent is active and which model it's running.
Send a message
Type anything in the composer and press Enter. The agent responds in real time, streaming its reply as it generates it. Tool calls, skill lookups, and sub-agent handoffs happen automatically as part of the response — you see the final answer, not the internal steps.
Continue the conversation
Each follow-up message continues in the same session. The agent carries the full conversation history, so you can refer back to earlier messages and build on them naturally.
Build your first agent with Meta-Agent
No agent yet? The Meta-Agent — Anter's built-in agent builder — can create one for you through conversation.
Enter Meta-Agent mode
Open Chat and click Build agent in the top bar (or type /meta in the composer). The interface switches to Meta-Agent mode: the composer placeholder changes to Describe the agent you want to build… and a greeting appears in the chat area.
Describe your idea
Type what you want the agent to do. A short description is enough to get started — the Meta-Agent will ask a few focused questions to fill in the details. For example:
"A customer support agent for a SaaS product — it handles billing questions and technical troubleshooting."
Review the spec
After a few exchanges, the Meta-Agent proposes a complete agent configuration. An Agent spec ready notification appears at the bottom of the screen. Click the spec artifact pill in the conversation to open the artifact panel and review the full proposal — the agent name, sub-agents, and skills it will create.
Create the agent
In the artifact panel, select the project to create the agent in, then click Create agent. Anter provisions the agent in Flows.
Open in chat
Click Open in chat →. Meta-Agent mode exits and the new agent loads — you're now chatting with the agent you just built.
Come back to the conversation
Meta-Agent conversations are saved and persist across page reloads. You can return to a build conversation later to continue refining the agent — even after it's been created.