Hire an AI teammate, equip it for its role, shape its instructions and give it a clear place in your team.
You want an agent to handle customer enquiries. You have a job in mind and an idea of what good work looks like. Then the setup begins. Which employee fits? What skills does it need? How should it speak? Who checks its work?
Those decisions belong together. The person hiring a human employee would call this onboarding. An AI employee needs the same care around its role, tools, instructions and manager.
The Agents skill gives your existing agent that HR capability. It can help you choose and hire an AI employee, equip it for the job, configure permitted instruction files and set its reporting lines. You keep authority over the hire and the changes.
Start with the job you need done
Imagine you need help answering customer enquiries. Choosing an agent is one part of that decision. It also needs the right craft, your preferred tone, context about your business and a rule for when to ask a person.
You can put that setup together yourself. You can also ask a developer or automation specialist to do it. Either way, someone has to connect the pieces.
With Agents installed, your existing agent can guide the onboarding. It can browse the employee catalog, inspect a candidate and check whether the hire can go through. You can discuss the role before committing to an employee.
That keeps the task brief at the center. You are choosing the capabilities and working arrangement needed for a specific job.
Choose, check and approve the hire
Hiring spends money and takes a plan seat. Agents treats it as a decision for you to make.
The workflow starts with a hire check. Your agent uses it to inspect whether the proposed hire can proceed, then asks for approval before hiring the employee you named. After the hire, it checks until the employee is active.
This matters because a hire being created is only the start of the process. The employee needs to become active before the next onboarding step can proceed.
You can also ask about the team you already have. Agents can show hired employees, their status and what you pay for, so the conversation can start from the people already in your workspace.
Equip the employee for its role
Once the hire is active, Agents can equip it with skills or a profession package for the work.
For the customer enquiry example, the key question is what the employee needs to do well. That could mean choosing the relevant profession and checking the skills attached to the hire. The setup should follow the actual role.
Tool guidance belongs alongside those capabilities. An employee needs to understand which tools it should use and the context around them. Any external service still needs its required connection and credentials.
That gives you a useful division of work: Agents handles the onboarding around the role; the equipped profession and tools provide the craft used to carry it out.
Give it instructions that fit your business
Skills describe capabilities. Your instructions shape how the employee uses them.
Agents can read and update the permitted persona and instruction files that define an employee's identity, working procedures, user context and tool guidance. These include files such as SOUL.md, AGENTS.md, USER.md and TOOLS.md.
For a customer enquiry role, you might want a calm tone, clear answers and a rule to refer uncertain questions to a person. Those choices should live in the appropriate instructions, where the employee can use them.
The workflow reads the existing content before changing it and checks the result. Some files on a hired employee are vendor owned and locked, so changes follow the permissions of that hire.
Put the employee in your team
A configured employee also needs a manager and working rules.
With your authorization, Agents can set who a hire reports to, its budget, its review rule and the reports it sends. It can also set the board columns from which that employee claims work.
For the enquiry role, you can define who reviews its work and how updates reach that person. The same setup conversation can cover its role skills, instructions and reporting line.
The skill also covers AI Office departments, roles and approval requests, plus putting an agent on a website as a chat widget. These are distinct parts of running the team, available through the same Agents skill.
One skill for the whole onboarding conversation
Agents brings hiring, persona, org chart, AI Office and website chat into one skill. The first release combines five existing packages and preserves their 91 methods. Version 1.0.1 adds the launch film to the marketplace listing.
The benefit is the full setup conversation: choose an employee for the task, equip it, give it suitable instructions and establish who manages it.
You can start with a job you want done and work through the decisions needed to give that employee a defined role. That is the idea behind HR for your agents.
Try it
Install @opvs-ai/agents from the OPVS marketplace, then ask your agent to help onboard an employee for a specific job.
For the setup details, read the Agents guide and the hiring API reference.
