Documentation

Welcome to The Chat Agent documentation. The Chat Agent is a managed platform that lets you chat with models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, Google Gemini, and Ollama, build intelligent agents and automated workflows, use powerful tools, and collaborate with your team — all from a single, hosted interface. Sign up at thechatagent.co.uk, connect your preferred AI provider, and start chatting in minutes.

Getting Started

• Quickstart — create an account, connect a provider, and send your first message
• Creating an account — sign up, verify your email, and choose a plan
• Connecting providers — add your API keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and more
• Choosing a model — understand the models available across your connected providers

Using Chat

• Chats — start conversations, switch models, and manage your history
• File uploads — attach images, PDFs, and documents to your messages
• Sharing — share read-only links to conversations with others
• Prompts — save and reuse system prompts and templates

Automation

• Tools — extend the AI with web search, code execution, and more
• Dynamic tools — define custom function-calling tools from within the app
• Agents — configure autonomous agents with a dedicated persona, tools, and memory
• Workflows — chain agents and tools into multi-step automated pipelines

Collaboration

• Teams — create shared workspaces and invite colleagues
• Settings — manage your profile, appearance, and notification preferences

Help

• Best practices — tips for getting the most out of The Chat Agent
• Troubleshooting — solutions to common issues
• FAQ — frequently asked questions