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Version: v1.7.0

Agent response view

The agent response view appears when you start an agent chat and provides a structured interface for tracking agent tasks. It features customizable view modes (Simplified, Standard, and Detailed) and background streaming, which lets you navigate to other chats or pages while the agent is working, without losing any progress or metadata.

View modes​

The interface supports three distinct view modes to suit different workflows. Click View at the top-right of the agent response to switch between view modes.

  • Simplified view: The main UI displays only the final response, not the chain of thoughts.
Simplified view
  • Standard view: Shows the chain of thoughts in the main UI. The right panel does not open automatically, keeping the interface cleaner unless you choose to inspect details.
Standard view
  • Detailed view: Shows the chain of thoughts in the main UI and the right panel opens automatically during streaming to show progress.
Detailed view

Right panel features​

The right panel provides detailed information about the agent's execution. Click Details to open the right panel. It contains the following sections:

  • Steps: An organized timeline of code generation, execution steps, results, and file generation.

  • Files: A file explorer view listing all files in the current workspace.

  • Sources: A list of external URLs and references used by the agent during generation.

  • Thoughts: A panel displaying the agent's analysis.

  • Chat: Internal agent-to-agent chat logs (visible only after task completion).

Right panel
info

See How to review agent behavior to understand how an agent completes a request.

File management and previews​

Grid view and bulk actions​

You can view workspace files in a grid view. This allows for bulk actions and selecting multiple files to download simultaneously.

Scroll down to the bottom of the agent response and click Grid View to view the files in a grid layout.

Grid view

This opens the All Agent Files In This Task dialog box, displaying a grid view of the files. It includes a search bar, a switch to toggle between All, New, and Old files, an option to select multiple files, and a Bulk Actions menu to Download All Files, Download New Files, or Download Selected.

Bulk actions

Built-in previews​

The interface supports instant previewing for the following file types:

  • HTML
  • Basic React JSX
  • Mermaid diagrams
  • Markdown
  • CSV / TSV data
  • SVG
Technical limitation

Cross-file access is restricted within the workspace. For example, an HTML file cannot directly link to or access another file. Note that for HTML and React previews, files are rendered in a sandboxed iframe with only a limited set of packages available.

Images

Images must be embedded using Base64 encoding to display directly in the UI. External image loading or relative paths will require downloading the file to view.

Further reading​

See Agents overview to learn more about Enterprise h2oGPTe agents, getting started with agents, how agents work, and creating custom agent tools.

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