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alias: user-guide-available-ai-agents
description: "Choose the standard AI Agents provided with Critical Manufacturing MES"
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# Available AI Agents

## Overview

An AI deployment provides System Agents for common MES tasks. Each agent has a specific purpose and the tools required for that purpose. Choose the agent or AI action that matches the task instead of using a specialist agent for unrelated work.

The **CM MES Agent** is available from the main **AI** page. MES resolves the other standard agents when you start their associated AI capability from the relevant page or action.

The standard mapping between capabilities and agents is configured in the [[aiagentcontext-st|AIAgentContext]] Smart Table. An administrator can replace a standard mapping with a custom agent for the environment.

## Standard Agents

### CM MES Agent

**Capability:** General Assistance

Use the **CM MES Agent** as the general starting point for questions about MES entities, documents and attachments, or how the product works. It can help locate information and explain the appropriate MES functionality.

Use a specialist agent instead when you need to work with a specific entity, generate a UI Page, explore manufacturing data, or create a dashboard.

### CM Entity Agent

**Capability:** Entity Knowledge

The **CM Entity Agent** works with the entity, document, or attachment from which you start an AI action. Use it to ask questions about that context, summarize a document or attachment, or compare versions of an entity or document.

Use the **CM MES Agent** for general product questions that are not related to the current entity context.

### CM UI Page Builder Agent

**Capability:** UI Page Building

Use the **CM UI Page Builder Agent** to create or refine a **UI Page** from a natural-language description. It can build an initial page structure and arrange the relevant widgets, which you can then refine manually.

Use the **CM UI Page Builder Agent** when your task is to work on a **UI Page**. For more information, see [[user-guide-uipages-generate-uipages-with-ai|Generate UI Pages with AI]].

### CM Shift Handover Agent

**Capability:** Shift Handover Reporting

Use the **CM Shift Handover Agent** to generate a Shift Handover Summary from a **Shift Logbook**. The summary can include Shift Logbook entries, area activity, production performance, yield, scrap and hold reasons, and machine issues.

Use the **CM Shift Handover Agent** for end-of-shift reporting. For more information, see [[user-guide-generate-shift-handover-summary|Generate Shift Handover Summary]].

### CM Analytics Agent

**Capability:** Data Exploration

Use the **CM Analytics Agent** to ask questions about manufacturing data, including production figures, yield, key performance indicators (KPIs), and trends. It returns the information in plain language without requiring you to write queries or reports.

Use the **CM Dashboard Builder Agent** when you need to create or change a dashboard rather than investigate a data question.

### CM Query Builder Agent

**Capability:** Query Building

Open a saved query in the **Queries** page and select **AI Editor** to use the **CM Query Builder Agent**. Describe the data you need in natural language; the agent can help configure columns, filters, and paths to related entities, then test its changes before saving them.

To work with a different entity type, open a query for that entity type first. For more information, see [[user-guide-queries|Queries]].

### CM Dashboard Builder Agent

**Capability:** Dashboard Building

Use the **CM Dashboard Builder Agent** to create or refine dashboards from a natural-language description. It can build charts automatically and lets you continue refining the dashboard manually.

Use the **CM Analytics Agent** for a data question that does not require a dashboard.

## Related Pages

* [[user-guide-ai|Using AI]]
* [[user-guide-ai-prompt-configuration|Prompt Configuration]]
* [[aiagentcontext-st|AIAgentContext]]