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🎯 In this guide, you will learn:
- Why/when you should create personal agents.
- How to create agents that knows who you are and what you do, and can give you personalized insights in a friendly tone. They can converse with you, give you feedback, coach you, etc..
- In short, tailor Dust to you specific needs to boost your productivity.
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Step 1: When to create an agent?
- As a rule of thumb, every time you find yourself copy/pasting a prompt or re-sending context to a generic agent like
@gpt4
, you should consider building an agent.
- Simple agents can be built in a matter of seconds and save you precious time over the long run.
- While agents are
private
by default, you can easily share with the rest of the team. Once in the library, your team member can then duplicate your agent and update the instructions to make it work for their own needs.
Step 2: Create your team of agents
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📄 Template
You can use some of our Productivity templates (explainSimply / socrates / myMentor
) to get started.
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You can create new agents from the main Dust page:

Here are some agents that can help you get started: