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Elastic Agent Builder: Agent Chat

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Agent Chat is the chat interface for natural language conversations with your agents.

The chat GUI and programmatic interfaces enable real-time communication where you can ask questions, request data analysis, and receive immediate responses from your configured agents.

Tip

Refer to the getting started guide to enable the feature and ingest some data.

Once the feature is enabled, find Agents in the navigation menu to begin chatting. You can also search for Agent Builder in the global search bar.

This takes you to the chat GUI:

Use the text input area to chat with an agent in real time. By default, you chat with the built-in Elastic AI Agent.

Text input area for chatting with agents

Use the agent selector to switch agents, to navigate to the agent management section, or to create a new agent.

Agent selector dropdown and message input field

Use the left sidebar to access previous conversations.

Chat history panel showing conversation list

The Agent Chat API provides programmatic access to chat functionality through REST endpoints.

For a quick overview of the REST API for conversations, refer to Chat and conversations API.

For the complete API reference, refer to the Kibana serverless API reference.