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Test an agent and turn it on

TestTurn onRunsUpdated Oct 31, 2026

Always test before you turn an agent on. A test runs your steps once and shows each result. Nothing is sent: emails and messages are only shown, approvals pass by themselves, and drafts are marked Test.

Test an agent

  1. 1Click Test at the top of the editor.
  2. 2Fill in the sample event if you like: it's what the trigger would hand to the steps. For a meeting agent, put a real meeting ID from your meetings so steps can find it.
  3. 3Click Run test. Each step gets a tick when it worked. Click a step to see what it read and wrote. A red step says what went wrong.
The Test panel showing a finished test with five ticked steps
History lists earlier runs, tests and real ones, with how much AI they used.

Turn it on

Click Turn on in the editor. The label changes to On · version 1. Each time you click Update the live version later, the version number goes up.

My Agents with two agents on and one draft
  • In My Agents, use the switch to turn an agent on or off, click its name to open it, or use the bin to delete it.
  • Turn off stops it from starting again. Runs already going finish.
  • To see what it did, open the agent and click Test, then History.

Agents that work together

A Run another agent step hands work to an agent that starts with When another agent runs it. Split a big job into small agents that each do one thing.

Troubleshooting

A step failed during a real run

Open the agent, click Test, then History, and click the failed run. The red step says what happened. Fix it; for steps that depend on apps, set If this step fails to Try again.

Does a test use my apps?

Tests read from your apps when they need to, but never send, post or change anything. Approvals pass by themselves.

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