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Agent Configuration

An agent is the AI personality that handles email for a specific inbox. This guide covers all configuration options.

Creating an agent

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The setup wizard walks you through four steps:

Step 1: Basic Information

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  • Agent Name - A friendly name to identify the agent (e.g., “Support Agent”)
  • Role - What the agent does. Select from preset roles: Customer Support, eCommerce Sales, General Inquiries, Enterprise Sales, Community Manager, Brand Ambassador, Coach, or Influencer. Each role comes with a default persona.

Step 2: Special Instructions (optional)

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Fine-tune how your agent behaves beyond its base persona:

  • Goal - The agent’s primary objective
  • Always Do - Behaviors the agent should always follow
  • Never Do - Behaviors the agent should avoid
  • Additional Instructions - Any other guidance for handling conversations

Step 3: Logic

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  • Escalation Email - Required. Where conversations get forwarded when the agent hands off to a human.
  • Escalation Rules - Review which types of conversations will escalate. See Escalation Rules for details.

Step 4: Signature

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  • Email Signoff - The signature appended to every reply. Supports rich text and HTML for branding.
  • Collect Feedback - When enabled, recipients can rate responses.
  • Show Watermark - When enabled, a small “Powered by Know Reply” note appears.

Editing an agent

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After creation, access all settings from the agent’s settings page. Changes take effect immediately for new emails.

Multiple agents

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Create multiple agents for different inboxes. Each agent has its own persona, tone, knowledge access, and escalation rules — they’re fully independent.

Specialization strategies

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The best results come from agents with focused, specific knowledge rather than one agent that tries to know everything.

By department:

  • support@company.com → Support Agent (troubleshooting, returns, policies)
  • sales@company.com → Sales Agent (pricing, demos, product comparisons)
  • hello@company.com → General Agent (routing, basic inquiries)

By product line:

  • pro-support@company.com → Pro Product Agent (knows only Pro product docs)
  • enterprise-support@company.com → Enterprise Agent (knows enterprise features and SLAs)

By role or audience:

  • partners@company.com → Partner Agent (B2B tone, partnership knowledge)
  • customers@company.com → Customer Agent (B2C tone, product knowledge)

For agencies:

  • One agent per client, each in its own workspace with isolated knowledge and branding

Agent limits by plan

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PlanActive agents
Free1
Starter5
Pro10
Premium25
EnterpriseUnlimited

Versions

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Each time you save changes to an agent, a new version is created. View previous versions from the Versions tab in the agent edit dialog to compare changes or understand how the agent’s configuration evolved.