Work with your first Hypermode Agent - Sidekick your personal assistant
In this tutorial we’ll get started with our first
Hypermode Agent named Sidekick. Sidekick 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.
Once we’ve signed in and created a workspace, we’ll meet our Sidekick agent.
Sidekick 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.Connections give our agents access to external tools and services, such as
Google Calendar, email, GitHub, our CRM, and more. Sidekick has access to the
Google Calendar connection by default.Let’s start by asking Sidekick what they can help us with.It looks like Sidekick can be a lot more helpful if we connect our Google
Calendar.
Let’s configure the Google Calendar connection so Sidekick can access our
calendar and help us prepare for meetings. Select the “Configure agent
connections” button and follow the authorization flow to connect your Google
Calendar.
Sidekick is configured to connect to Google Calendar. Over 2000 other
connections are available by upgrading to the Hypermode Pro tier.
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.
Tools can be combined by the agent to complete our requests. Here we ask
Sidekick to prepare for our meetings by researching who we’re scheduled to meet
with. Sidekick 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.
We can ask Sidekick to generate talking points for our meeting. Sidekick uses
the results of the research tool and our specific guidance to generate talking
points.
We can ask Sidekick to update our calendar invite with the talking points we
just generated. Sidekick uses the Google Calendar connection to update our
invite.
Sidekick is configured to connect to Google Calendar. To enable other
connections you’ll need to upgrade to the
Hypermode Pro tier.Explore other ways that Sidekick can help you in your daily tasks. When you’re
ready to explore creating new agents with new capabilities and adding other
connections, upgrade to the Hypermode Pro tier by scheduling your onboarding
call.Creating more custom agents from natural language, choosing over 2000 additional
connections to add to our agent, and more are features available in the
Hypermode Pro tier. Once you’ve completed the Pro-tier onboarding you’ll be able
to create agents with custom instructions. In the mean time check out the
Agent Gallery to see what kinds of agents you’ll be
able to create with Hypermode Agents Pro tier.See the Hypermode Agents documentation for more
information about Hypermode Agents.