Publish your first agent

Intermediate · ~5 min · Prerequisites: admin access to AgentForce

What you'll do

Publish your draft agent so members can find it in the hub, start conversations, and get work done with it.

Publish the draft

In the builder at /admin/agents/<slug>/edit, click Publish in the top-right corner. Publishing snapshots your current draft into a new numbered version and makes it live for all members immediately.

The Version history panel (accessible from the builder) records every publish with a timestamp and version number. This is how you roll back if a future publish introduces a problem. See Versions & publishing for the full versioning model.

What members see

As soon as you publish, the agent appears in the hub at /agentforce. Members will see:

• The agent's card in the hub with the display name, icon, color, and description you set.
• A chat interface at /agentforce/<slug>/chat where they can start a new conversation or pick up an existing thread.
• Access to the tools you enabled — members can ask the agent to take actions, and the agent will call the right tools automatically.
• Memory, if you've configured it — the agent can recall context from prior conversations with that member.

Members cannot see the instructions, the model choice, or any draft changes you make after publishing. Everything they interact with is the published version.

Keep iterating safely

Publishing doesn't lock the agent. You can continue editing the draft at any time without affecting what members see. The edit → test → publish loop is designed to be safe:

1. Go to /admin/agents/<slug>/edit and make your changes.
2. Test in the test panel until the new behavior is stable.
3. Click Publish again to ship the updated version.

Members stay on the previously published version until you publish again. If a publish introduces a regression, open Version history and restore the prior version — it takes one click.

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