Agent Selector
The agent selector in the top bar is your main navigation for agents and their workspaces. Choosing an agent starts a fresh chat; choosing an app, site, or builder opens that workspace.
What you see
- The current agent's icon and name.
- A dropdown listing built-in agents, your custom agents, agents shared with you, and the App / Site Builder entry points.
- A small badge when the selected agent has an associated user-agent (your customised version).
Running vs. designing a custom agent
Picking one of your custom agents from the dropdown runs it — you stay on Home (/) with the agent selected in Execute mode, ready to chat. If you own the agent, a small tab bar appears above the chat with Execute / Design / Properties / …; clicking any tab other than Execute switches into Design mode and the URL becomes /agent/:id (bookmarkable, reload-safe). Pressing Execute again brings you back to Home.
How the selection is remembered
Operator keeps a single tab selection that covers the agent, the reasoning level, and the active instance — they all share the same persistence model.
- Per browser tab — each tab has its own selection (saved in session storage). You can have one tab on the Sales Agent and another on the Support Agent at the same time.
- Per profile — your profile stores a default selection in the database. A brand-new tab opens on whatever you last picked anywhere.
- First load of a new tab — Operator reads the profile default and writes it into the tab's session storage. From then on, the tab follows its own selection.
Header navigation and conversation changes
The two agent menus have deliberately different jobs:
Top-bar agent selector — always navigates. From an existing conversation, choosing another agent starts a fresh chat and leaves the old conversation assigned to its original agent. Choosing an app, site, or builder opens its workspace.
Message-box + menu → Agent — changes the agent for the conversation you are currently viewing. Use this only when you intentionally want the next message in that conversation handled by someone else.
Example: while viewing a conversation with Business Specialist, choosing Advisor from the top bar starts a new Advisor chat. Choosing Advisor from + → Agent keeps the same conversation and changes its assigned agent.
Reading an old conversation
Opening a conversation from the history sidebar on the right shows the agent that was used at the time. The top-bar selector can take you to a new chat or another workspace without changing that saved conversation.
Related
- Instance Selector — the same persistence model, applied to ERP.net connections.
- Using Agents — choosing the right agent for the job.
- Creating Agents — building your own.