Help for AI, agents and agentic
Work with AI and agents in Exponential: the writing assistant expai, agent access through the APIs, agentic workflows and safety.
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- AI, agents and agentic: start here The landing page for people who use AI with Exponential and for people who build agents and agentic workflo...
- AI, agents and agentic: reading path The order in which to read the AI, agents and agentic section - a common start for everyone, then separate...
- AI, agents and agentic: FAQ Short answers to the questions people ask about AI in Exponential - does it publish, which providers, does...
- AI, agents and agentic glossary The words of the AI, agents and agentic section explained in one place - agent, agentic workflow, data poli...
- What exists today An honest inventory of the AI and agent features of Exponential 6 - Exponential Intelligence (expai), the R...
- Which path fits your task A short decision guide - answer a few questions about what you want an AI to do with Exponential and get th...
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What AI in Exponential does not do
The limits of AI in Exponential in one place - the assistant does not publish on its own, use a service account, upload images or files, or send anything before you configure a provider; agents get no rights beyond…
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Exponential Intelligence for AI users
The part of the AI, agents and agentic section about Exponential Intelligence (expai), the writing assistant of the administration interface - what it does, which providers it supports, how drafts and review work…
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What Exponential Intelligence does
The features of Exponential Intelligence for editors - the Intelligence tab, the edit form actions and presets, alt text, Vector, chains and translation sync - and exactly what each one sends to the model and what it…
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Drafts and human review
Why Exponential Intelligence never publishes on its own - every result is a draft of the editor, "Send for approval" runs the normal publish operation so approval workflows hold the version, and every version it wrote…
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Providers and models
Which AI providers Exponential Intelligence can use - Anthropic, any OpenAI-compatible service through one adapter, a local open-weight model, or a class of your own - what has been proven live and what only against…
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Configuring a provider
A task guide for administrators - put a provider key where it belongs, add an OpenAI-compatible provider and its models, set region, retention and the terms date, choose the site default model, and check the result on…
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All pages for AI, agents and agentic- Local models Running an open-weight model on your own server with Exponential Intelligence so that no content leaves it - what the extension provides...
- The write gate and the probe Which models may write drafts in Exponential Intelligence and why - native tool calling, WriteTools enabled, and either trust by configur...
- Translation help How Exponential Intelligence helps with translations - the Translate field action, asking for a translated draft in the Intelligence tab,...
- Alt text for images How Exponential Intelligence suggests the alternative text of images with a vision model - the Write alt text and Decorative buttons in t...
- Vector and staged review Vector, the workspace of threads of Exponential Intelligence, for bulk and agentic work under control - a scope the thread may touch, pla...
- Chains and queued work Multi-step AI work in Exponential Intelligence through the job queue - AI chains (write, review, revise, SEO and QA, a human checkpoint,...
- Permissions for AI features The expai policies (write, vector, log, settings, model_use, model_manage, lane_fast, chain, web, translation_sync, summary, services) an...
- The master switch and the veto hook How to turn Exponential Intelligence off everywhere or per siteaccess with one setting, what happens at every entry point when it is off,...
- Web and history tools The three read-only tools of Exponential Intelligence that look outside the content tree - web_fetch for pages of allowlisted sites, web_...
- Service tools How read services of expservices become tools of Exponential Intelligence - opting in with 'ai' => true or the ServiceTools settings, the...
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