Agents Overview

What An Agent Is

Agents are the units that do work in Cofounder.

Each one is responsible for a particular kind of job. That might be engineering work, go-to-market work, SEO, security, or infrastructure. When you start a task, you are handing that work to an agent with the right scope for the job.

Agents are organized inside departments.

Cofounder is the exception. It is the top-level agent for the workspace, accessible from the side panel. It can help create or route tasks across the workspace instead of acting like a department-specific agent.

What An Agent Includes

Every agent has a few core parts:

Instructions that define what the agent owns and how it should behave
Model that defines the reasoning engine the agent uses
Integrations that define which tools and systems it can use
Skills that add reusable guidance for a specific kind of work
Department that determines which lane of the company the agent belongs to

An engineering agent and a Marketing Agent should have different instructions, different tools, different skills, and live in different departments.

Default Agents

After onboarding, Cofounder is available from the side panel and your workspace is seeded with agents for the main operating areas.

The seeded default agents are:

Operations Agent
Engineer
Marketing Agent
Design Agent
Sales Agent
Support Agent
Ops Agent
Finance Agent

Default Agent Roles

Cofounder is the top-level workspace agent in the side panel
Operations Agent handles broad tasks and routes work to the right tools or agents
Engineer is for product and app work
Marketing Agent is for launches, messaging, campaigns, and marketing asset generation such as HTML decks, images, UI concepts, music, and short videos
Design Agent is for brand systems, decks, email templates, visual assets, and UI kits
Sales Agent is for ICP, outbound, customer development, pipeline, and GTM execution
Support Agent is for support replies, ticket triage, and support workflow improvements
Ops Agent is for reconciliation, recurring reporting, and operational cleanup
Finance Agent is for collections, close support, billing inbox triage, and finance reporting

Cofounder sits above that layer as the workspace-level agent, while the seeded agents are for specific kinds of work.

Adding New Agents

You can add new agents when you need an agent that does not already exist in the workspace. Examples include support, operations, finance, recruiting, or a specific internal workflow.

New agents usually include:

one clear job
the right integrations for that job
the few skills that actually help

Agents Vs. Skills Vs. Departments