Agentic Flow Builder
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The Agentic Flow Builder is the environment for building multi-step AI agents as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs).

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   :alt: Agentic Flow Builder — overview
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| You can connect components — agents, data sources, knowledge bases, logic, integrations — using input/output handles, and the platform executes them as an orchestrated pipeline.

Use Agentic Flow when you need:

* **Multi-step reasoning** — the agent must retrieve data, process it, call a model, and act on the result across several steps.
* **Tool and API orchestration** — the flow calls external APIs, executes code, queries databases, or accesses knowledge bases as part of answering a request.
* **Conditional branching and looping** — the path through the flow depends on model output, data values, or confidence scores.
* **Composability** — flows can call other agents — agentic flows and Voice Agents — as tools, allowing complex agents to be built from reusable sub-flows.

For straightforward rule-guided conversations with deterministic routing, use the :doc:`Chatbot Builder </8_chatbot_builder/index>` instead. For phone-based agents, use the :doc:`Voice Agent Builder </10_voice_agent_builder/index>`.

.. toctree::
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   the_editor
   building_blocks
   testing
   publishing
   agent_settings