Explore Agents

Overview

Explore is the agent browser — the screen where you find an agent to talk to rather than configuring one you already have. It gathers every agent available to you into one searchable, filterable page and lets you start a conversation from any of them.

The page is organised into four sections, each answering a different question. Favorites are the agents you have starred, so the ones you use daily sit at the top. Featured are the agents your organization has promoted. Custom are the agents built inside your organization. All Agents is the complete list, paged with a See more control.

Above the sections sit a search box and a row of filters — category, subject, type, and LLM provider — that narrow every section at once. A Create Agent action appears for users whose role allows it.

To reach this screen, open Explore in the left icon rail of the chat interface.

Target Audience

Any User | Agent Builder

Panel Reference

Search

A text search across the agents available to you, matching on name and description.

Filters

Dropdowns that narrow the results — Category, Subject, Type, and LLM Provider — alongside a promotion filter. They combine with the search box and apply to every section on the page.

Favorites

The agents you have starred. This section only appears for a signed-in user, since a starred agent belongs to an account.

Featured

Agents promoted by your organization. This is the shelf an administrator curates for people who do not yet know what to look for.

Custom

Agents built inside your organization, as opposed to the defaults the platform ships with.

All Agents

Every agent available to you — "Explore agents and specialized learning assistants" — paged behind a See more control rather than loaded all at once.

Agent card

One card per agent, showing its avatar, name, a short description, and when it was last updated. Selecting the card opens a conversation with that agent.

Star toggle

The star on each card adds or removes the agent from Favorites. Starring requires a signed-in account.

Create Agent

Starts a new agent. The action is permission-gated — it is only offered to users whose role allows agent creation — and there is a matching Create Custom Agent card at the foot of the Custom section.

How to Use

Step 1: Open Explore

In the chat interface, open Explore from the left icon rail. The page opens with your starred agents first, if you have any.

Step 2: Search or filter

Type what you are looking for, or narrow by category, subject, type, or LLM provider. The filters apply across all four sections, so a filtered page shows the matching favourites, featured, custom, and remaining agents together.

Step 3: Star the agents you use often

Use the star on a card to add an agent to Favorites so it is waiting at the top of the page next time.

Step 4: Start a conversation

Select an agent card to open a chat with that agent.

Step 5: Create one if none fits

If nothing on the page does the job and your role permits it, use Create Agent to build one.

Behavior Notes

• Favourites need an account. Starring is stored against the signed-in user, so the Favorites section does not appear for an unauthenticated visitor.
• Creation is permission-gated. The Create Agent action only renders for roles that hold the create permission; everyone else browses without it.
• Sections can be turned off. Which of the four sections appear is configurable, so a deployment may show a subset — a page without a Featured shelf is a configuration, not a fault.
• Filters narrow, they do not reorder. The section structure stays the same under a filter; each section simply shows fewer agents.

Building an Agent Browser Into Your Own App

The agent browser ships in the ibl.ai SDK as a self-contained component, so a product you build can offer the same discovery surface. Install the iblai/vibe skills and mount <AgentSearch> from @iblai/iblai-js/web-containers/next, passing the handlers for what a card click and a create action should do in your app; which sections render is controlled by a prop, every label is overridable, and role gating can be switched on.

For custom layouts the pieces are exported individually — the card, the search input, the filter row, the star toggle, and the empty state — along with the search and star hooks. The reusable skill for this workflow is iblai-vibe-agent-search, and the SDK overview is at Vibe SDK.