Creating Agents
Register an agent on a single form at /dashboard/agents/new. Choose Quick Start to get a gateway token in seconds and let Clevername learn the agent's behaviour, or Full Questionnaire to configure governance up front through the 15-step security questionnaire.
The Register Agent form
Agent creation is one page, Register Agent, reached from the Agents list or directly at /dashboard/agents/new. A toggle at the top switches between two paths:
- Quick Start — register the agent and get its gateway token immediately. Clevername analyses early traffic to build a baseline (Learn), surfaces anomalies as warnings once the baseline is confident (Flag), then activates enforcement (Enforce). You can complete the questionnaire any time to tune guardrails or skip ahead.
- Full Questionnaire — define the agent, then answer the security questionnaire in the wizard. Your answers compile into a CleverGuard profile and enforcement is active from the first call.
Agent status after creation
Quick Start agents are live at once in learning mode with their gateway token. Full Questionnaire agents go through Agent Review like any submission: on Free and Pro a completed questionnaire is the approval and the profile compiles immediately; on Team and Enterprise with reviewers configured, the submission waits for the vote threshold.
Pick a path
Choose Quick Start or Full Questionnaire. The header explains the difference: “Get started in seconds” versus “Configure governance from day one.” In Full Questionnaire mode a Save button keeps a draft of the form as you go.
Name, role and model
Enter a Name (required) — for example “Support Ticket Triager” — a role, and choose the model. Models are grouped by provider and depend on the provider keys you have configured (BYOK).
Describe the agent (and optionally paste a config)
The Description field accepts plain text or an n8n / LangGraph JSON export. In Full Questionnaire mode a separate Prefill security questionnaire with AI box takes the same input and pre-answers the questionnaire so you only confirm the answers. The prefill call runs on a Clevername-operated, self-hosted model, not on your BYOK key and not on a third-party provider.
Declare upstream and downstream agents
Tick the agents that trigger or feed into this one (upstream) and the agents this one triggers or hands off to (downstream). These become call edges on the Connections canvas and are used by drift detection.
Optional: scanner toggles
The CleverGuard scanner and ClaimGuard output verification toggles are optional. Left on “default”, the compiler infers both from the questionnaire and bindings; the CleverGuard scanner never turns off on its own, so its only override is off.
Create
Quick Start creates the agent and shows an Agent token card — copy the token into your n8n workflow, LangGraph agent or other integration. Full Questionnaire creates the agent and opens the 15-step wizard (Environment, Operations, Triggers, Data Flow, Tool Scope, Autonomy, Network, Compliance, Privacy, Prompt Security, Security Context, Pattern Tuning, Review, Key Access, Verify). See Submitting for Review.