Agent
Work with the Continual agent to build software, carry out work, and improve what you have.
The Continual agent is your built-in collaborator. It can read context, work with files and source code, use connected services, and ask you for information as it works. You direct it through conversation in a thread.
Give the agent a goal
Explain the result you want, share the context it needs, and describe how you will judge the result. Include constraints and decisions you want to review. You can start with a question, a concrete task, or an idea for software you want to build.
Build a dashboard of overdue invoices. Show the customer, amount due, and account owner. Let me review a reminder before it is sent.
Where are the invoice records stored, and which account should send reminders? I can use that context to plan the dashboard and review step.
Build and change software
Ask the agent to build an app, change an existing feature, investigate a bug, or explain how something works. It can inspect the project source, edit files, run commands and checks, and prepare app previews and deployments using the tools available to it.
The project and branch give the work its source and runtime context. Review the result in the thread, try the app when a preview is available, and ask for revisions in the same conversation.
Work with your systems
Use connections to give the agent tools for external services. Depending on the connected accounts and their permissions, it can look up information, prepare updates, and carry out actions in those services.
For work that should repeat, use an automation to run instructions on a schedule or in response to an event. Inspect the resulting threads to see what happened and refine the instructions.
Guide the work
Answer questions, correct assumptions, and give feedback as the agent works. Tasks keep requests that need a person together with their context and response.
Instructions explain what you want the agent to do. Account access and tool permissions determine what it is allowed to do. Configure those controls for the work you are delegating, and review results before relying on them.
To connect an external agent to Continual, see the separate MCP reference.