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title: Agent Studio overview
description: Agent Studio is where you build assistants in the console. Describe the job in your own words, add documents, skills and outside tools, then talk to it.
url: https://agentlab.cresclab.com/docs/en/studio
language: en
updated: 2026-11-06
---

# Agent Studio overview

Agent Studio is where you build assistants in the console. Describe the job in your own words, add documents, skills and outside tools, then talk to it.

## What it is

Agent Studio is the Studio module of the [Agent Lab console](https://app.agentlab.cresclab.com/), the **Studio** group in the left navigation. You build assistants there, give them your documents, teach them how your team does things, and talk to them in **Conversations**.

You don't need to know anything about AI to build one. The assistant's page asks what you already know: who it helps, what it does, what it hands back, and what it must never do. The platform turns your answers into the assistant's instructions. You can edit those instructions directly, but you don't have to.

## Who it's for

- Anyone who wants an assistant of their own can create a private one, give it files and start talking to it right away.
- Someone setting up an assistant for a team creates a shared one, checks its answers with test questions, then publishes it to the workspace.
- Workspace owners and admins set the defaults every assistant uses and connect outside tools and accounts.

## Private or shared

When you create an assistant, the console first asks **Who can use it?**

|                | **Only me (private)**                                                | **The whole workspace (shared)**                                         |
| -------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Who can use it | Only you                                                             | Everyone in the workspace, once it's published                           |
| When it works  | Right away. After you save, your next message uses the new settings. | It starts as a draft only you can see, and works once published.         |
| Channels       | Can't be published to channels                                       | Can be used in channels                                                  |
| Later          | Share it from **Share or deploy** on its page                        | Every edit is a new draft; nothing changes for members until you publish |

Publishing a shared assistant takes a workspace owner or admin. Anyone else can get the draft ready and ask one of them to publish it.

## How the pieces fit

1. **Create an assistant** On the **Assistants** page, choose **Create an assistant** and describe what it should do.
2. **Give it material** Put documents and Q&A in **Knowledge**, then pick which ones each assistant uses on its page.
3. **Teach it how** Write the way your team does something as a **Skill**, and add it to the assistants that need it.
4. **Connect outside systems** Add connectors in [Integrations](https://agentlab.cresclab.com/docs/en/studio/integrations.md) so assistants can use outside tools and data.
5. **Talk to it** Talk to assistants in **Conversations**. Past conversations are kept, so you can pick up where you left off.
6. **Let it work on its own** In **Automations**, have an assistant run a standing instruction on a schedule. Work collected from conversations shows up in **Tasks**.

## Where things are in the console

| Navigation entry  | What it's for                                                                                    |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Conversations** | Talk to assistants. Lists your conversations, including results of automatic runs.               |
| **Assistants**    | Create, set up, test and publish assistants, under the **All**, **Shared** and **Private** tabs. |
| **Knowledge**     | Documents and answers your assistants can draw on.                                               |
| **Skills**        | Reusable instructions you can add to any assistant, including skill packs imported from GitHub.  |
| **Automations**   | Have an assistant run a standing instruction on a schedule. Each run opens a conversation.       |
| **Tasks**         | Work collected from your conversations, with assignments and deadlines.                          |
| **AI settings**   | Defaults for every assistant in the workspace. One assistant's own settings are on its page.     |
| **Integrations**  | Outside tools and accounts assistants can use, through connectors.                               |

If the navigation has no **Studio** group, the workspace doesn't have the Studio module. Ask a workspace owner or admin.

## Next

- [Create your first assistant](https://agentlab.cresclab.com/docs/en/studio/quickstart.md): Go from nothing to a private assistant answering you in Conversations.
- [Assistants](https://agentlab.cresclab.com/docs/en/studio/assistants.md): Every setting on an assistant's page, plus test questions, versions and publishing.
- [Knowledge](https://agentlab.cresclab.com/docs/en/studio/knowledge.md): Upload documents, write Q&A and choose which assistants use them.
- [Skills](https://agentlab.cresclab.com/docs/en/studio/skills.md): Create skills, import skill packs and add them to assistants.
- [Automations](https://agentlab.cresclab.com/docs/en/studio/automations.md): Have an assistant run a standing instruction on a schedule.
- [Conversations](https://agentlab.cresclab.com/docs/en/studio/conversations.md): Start conversations, pick an assistant, pin and search.
- [Tasks](https://agentlab.cresclab.com/docs/en/studio/tasks.md): Review the work collected from conversations.
- [AI settings](https://agentlab.cresclab.com/docs/en/studio/ai-settings.md): Defaults shared by every assistant in the workspace.