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title: "What is Agent Mode"
description: "Agent Mode is a second way into your product: customers ask, it happens, and generative UI draws a bespoke interface when a request calls for one. What it is, how it works on Guuey, and what it costs."
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**Agent Mode** is a second way into your product. Your customers ask in plain words, it happens, and generative UI draws a bespoke interface when a request calls for one. You don't rebuild your product to get it: you brief an agent, connect it to your product's tools, and Guuey runs it.

Every question your dashboard can't answer in one click becomes a support ticket, a churn risk, or a conversation in someone else's window. Agent Mode gives your customers a second way in.

## How Agent Mode works

Under the hood, Agent Mode is an agent that Guuey hosts for you. It is built from three things you supply:

- **A system prompt**: describe your product, its rules and its voice, in plain words. If you can write an onboarding doc, you can brief an agent. See [Getting started](/getting-started/).
- **A model**: Claude by default. On the code path, the framework you pick decides the vendor: the Claude Agent SDK runs Anthropic models, the OpenAI Agents SDK runs OpenAI models, and Google ADK runs Gemini models. See [Choosing a model](/cli/#choosing-a-model).
- **MCP tools**: the agent acts through the MCP servers you connect. You can point it at a server you already run, let Guuey host yours, or run one inside the agent's own pod. See [Hosting & runtime](/hosting/), [Tools & MCP](/console-tools/) and [The MCP proxy](/concepts-mcp-proxy/).

You can build it in the console with no code, or keep it in your repository as `guuey.json` and deploy from the CLI or from CI. See [CLI](/cli/) and [Agents as code](/agents-as-code/).

Guuey then runs it:

- **Its own runtime.** Each app runs in its own isolated pod. See [Hosting & runtime](/hosting/), [How hosting works](/concepts-hosting/) and [Security & isolation](/security/).
- **Generative UI.** The agent answers with working interface, not walls of text, through the open ggui protocol. See [Generative UI (ggui)](/protocol/).
- **Memory.** Conversation history is kept, and each signed-in user gets durable per-user storage. See [State & memory](/state-and-memory/).
- **You watch it work.** The console's Sessions page shows every conversation, and Logs follows the running agent live. See [Agents & deployments](/console-agents/).
- **It wears your brand.** Define a theme in the console and the chat wears it. See [Design & distribution](/console-design/) and [Theming](/chat-theming/).

## Where your customers use it

Pick the route that fits today. You can switch at any time, and the agent stays the same agent.

- **A script-tag widget.** One line of HTML puts a themed launcher on your site. See [Install the widget](/install-widget/).
- **Inside your app, with the SDK.** Mount the conversation anywhere in your own UI. This is the true in-app Agent Mode. See [Embed & share](/embed/), [Drop-in chat UI](/chat/) and [Build your own surface](/sdk/).
- **A share link or Portal.** Share the agent's own page, or list it in Portal, Guuey's app for finding agents. Nothing to install. See [Embed & share](/embed/) and [Portal](/portal/).

To serve it from your own domain, see [Your own domain](/domains/). To sign your own users in, see [Sign in your own users](/surface-identity/).

## What does Agent Mode cost?

Agent Mode costs a Guuey plan per app. Plans start at **$49 a month per app**, and your first app starts on a **7-day free trial**. Each plan includes a monthly allowance of generations. On a paid plan, usage past the allowance is metered against the app's own spending cap. The free trial lasts 7 days and has no overage: an app that reaches its allowance stops answering, and taking a plan brings it back. An app still without a plan when the trial ends is paused until one is chosen. In your personal workspace, a one-time $5 credit toward model usage on Guuey's key is shared by your trial apps. An app in a team workspace gets no trial credit, so it can't answer until you choose a plan or connect your own model key (BYOK).

The full price table, with every plan, meter and cap, is on [Plans & billing](/plans-and-billing/). What each meter counts is explained in [How billing works](/concepts-billing/). Current prices always live on [guuey.com/pricing](https://guuey.com/pricing).

## Start

[Getting started](/getting-started/) takes you from sign-up to a live agent. To see a working agent first, the [Trimly tutorial](/tutorial-trimly/) forks the open-source app behind the live salon demo.