In this tutorial we’ll get started with our first Hypermode Agent named Tom Anderson. Tom Anderson is a personal assistant that can help you with your daily tasks, such as scheduling meetings, reviewing our calendar, and preparing for meetings by conducting research. Along the way we’ll introduce the basic concepts of working with agents in Hypermode, including the concepts of connections, threads, and tasks.

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Sign in to Hypermode

First, we’ll sign in to Hypermode and create our first workspace if we haven’t done that yet. Sign in to Hypermode

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Meet Tom Anderson

Once we’ve signed in and created a workspace, we’ll meet your first agent Tom Anderson. Tom is included with the Hypermode free tier and is a great way to get started with Hypermode Agents by learning how to interact with agents and add connections. Sidekick Connections give our agents access to external tools and services, such as Google Calendar, email, Slack, and more. Let’s start by asking Tom what they can help us with. Tom Anderson user message It looks like Tom can be a lot more helpful if we connect our Google Calendar.

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Agent connections

Let’s configure the Google Calendar connection so Tom can access our calendar and help us prepare for meetings. Select the “Connections” tab and follow the authorization flow to connect your Google Calendar.

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Chat and tools

We can interact with our agent through natural language chat. The agent uses “tools” to complete our requests. These tools enable an agent to understand and interact on its environment using the connections we add. Under the hood these tools and connections are powered by Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. When we send a message to our agent it is able to use the tools and connections we’ve added to it to complete our requests. By asking the agent “who are we meeting with?” it uses the Google Calendar connection to access our calendar and find the meeting we’re preparing for. Who are we meeting with?

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Prepare for meetings

Tools can be combined by the agent to complete our requests. Here we ask Tom to prepare for our meetings by researching who we’re scheduled to meet with. Tom uses the Google Calendar connection to access our calendar and find the meeting we’re preparing for, extracts the meeting details including other participants, then uses a built-in research tool to research the participants. Prepare for meetings

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Generate talking points

We can ask Tom to generate talking points for our meeting. Tom uses the results of the research tool and our specific guidance to generate talking points. Generate talking points Generate talking points

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Update calendar invite

We can ask Tom to update our calendar invite with the talking points we just generated. Tom uses the Google Calendar connection to update our invite. Update calendar invite

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Adding new use cases

Explore other ways that Tom can help you in your daily tasks. When you’re ready to explore creating new agents with new capabilities or adding other connections to expand your use cases, ask Tom to help you. See the Hypermode Agents documentation for more information about Hypermode Agents.