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.

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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 our Sidekick agent

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. Sidekick 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. Sidekick user message It looks like Sidekick can be a lot more helpful if we connect our Google Calendar.

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Sidekick connections

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.

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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 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. Prepare for meetings

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Generate talking points

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. Generate talking points Generate talking points

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Update calendar invite

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. Update calendar invite

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Writing to other services

Sidekick is configured to connect to Google Calendar. To enable other connections you’ll need to upgrade to the Hypermode Pro tier. Writing to other services 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. Upgrade to Pro 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.