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Elastic Announces General Availability of Agent Builder with Expanded Capabilities<\/b><\/p>\n

Elastic Agent Builder grounds AI agents in enterprise data, executes context-driven answers and actions<\/i><\/p>\n

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE<\/a>)–
\nElastic (NYSE: ESTC), the Search AI Company, announced the general availability of Agent Builder, a complete set of capabilities that helps developers quickly build secure, reliable, context-driven AI agents.<\/p>\n

\nAI agents need the right context to perform complex tasks accurately. Built on Elasticsearch, Agent Builder excels at context engineering by delivering relevance in a unified platform that scales, searches, and analyzes enterprise data. It dramatically simplifies the entire agent workflow with native data prep and ingestion, retrieval and ranking, built-in and custom tools, native conversational experience, and agent observability. Developers can use Agent Builder to chat with their data or build a context-driven custom agent in minutes.<\/p>\n

\n“Agent Builder has native MCP and A2A protocol support, enabling seamless deployments within Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft Agent Framework,\u201d said Amanda Silver, CVP, Microsoft CoreAI<\/b>. \u201cThis gives our users a way to build context-rich, agentic AI leveraging Elasticsearch as a Knowledge Source and powered by Microsoft Foundry.”<\/p>\n

\n“Agentic systems fail today because connecting AI to tools and data is complex,” said Sam Partee, co-founder at Arcade.dev<\/b>. “Elastic Agent Builder with Arcade.dev gives developers a structured, secure way to handle how agents retrieve context, reason, and act, taking agents from demo to production grade.”<\/p>\n

\n\u201cUnlocking enterprise context from unstructured data sources is key to building effective agents,\u201d said Jerry Liu, CEO at LlamaIndex<\/b>. \u201cElastic Agent Builder combined with LlamaIndex\u2019s complex document processing strengthens the critical context layer, helping teams retrieve, process, and prepare data so agents can reason more accurately and deliver better outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Introducing Workflows<\/b><\/p>\n

\nElastic also introduced Elastic Workflows (tech preview), a new capability that extends Agent Builder\u2019s functionality by enabling agents to reliably take action across systems.<\/p>\n

\nMany agent-building frameworks require LLMs to plan and manage every step of the automation. However, AI lacks the reliability of rule-based actions, a critical capability for organizations. Workflows closes this gap. Now, agents built with Agent Builder can leverage Workflows to orchestrate internal and external systems to take actions, gather and transform data and context with precision. Agent Builder and Workflows enable developers to build context-driven agents that can reason accurately and execute predictably.<\/p>\n

\n“Agent Builder simplifies working with messy enterprise data, giving developers a secure, reliable foundation to build context-driven agents at scale,\u201d said Ken Exner, chief product officer at Elastic<\/b>. \u201cElastic Workflows complements this foundation by giving those agents built-in, rules-based automation for simple tasks. By enhancing Agent Builder with Workflows, teams get a single system that delivers both intelligent reasoning and dependable automation, which is exactly what enterprises need to move from pilots to real-world impact.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nAgents developed with Agent Builder are model-agnostic and compatible with managed model-as-a-service providers, including the cloud hyperscalers.<\/p>\n

Availability<\/b><\/p>\n

\nAgent Builder is available in Elastic Cloud Serverless and is included with the Enterprise Tier in Elastic Cloud Hosted and self-managed Elastic Stack releases for existing customers.<\/p>\n

\nWorkflows is available in tech preview.<\/p>\n

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