> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.clarion.cantina.xyz/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Introduction

> Learn how agents triage issues, investigate them, and execute response actions in your security stack.

<Note>
  Agents are AI-powered responders that investigate every issue. They pick the right skill to follow, run tools to gather context, and either close the issue, escalate it to your on-call members, or ask a human for approval to continue.
</Note>

## What an agent is

An agent is a configured responder defined by:

* **Monitors**: The event sources it pays attention to.
* **Skills**: A skill is a reusable playbook that teaches the agent how to perform a specific class of tasks to a known standard, along with the tools available to investigate and remediate security issues.
* **Tools**: The actions it can execute, assigned through skills (Slack, DNS, Jira, AWS, and more).
* **Notification preferences**: How it requests human approval or clarification.

Start from a **template**, with pre-built agents for common SOC workflows like Smart Contract Security, Identity & Access, or DNS Infrastructure, or build one from scratch.

## What an agent does

* **Triages issues**: Produces a summary, report, recommendations, and risk assessment for every issue that matches its monitors.
* **Digs in on escalations**: Runs deeper analysis once an issue is escalated.
* **Executes response**: Calls tools to remediate (revoke a token, change a DNS record, post to Slack, file a Jira ticket).
* **Asks for approval**: Requests human approval before sensitive actions, or clarification when input is needed to proceed.
* **Resumes**: Suspended or paused investigations resume automatically once a human responds.

<Tip>
  Agents only do what their skills tell them to do. The right way to change an agent's behavior is to update or add a skill, not to rewrite the agent itself.
</Tip>

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  <Card title="Creating agents" href="/learn/agents/creating-agents">
    Build an agent from a template or from scratch.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Monitors" href="/learn/agents/monitors">
    Configure the event sources your agents pay attention to.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>