Core Concepts

Beam brings together a workspace, agents, and Flows. Use the workspace home to start a task or brainstorm, then configure agents and review their work from the workspace navigation.

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Workspace

The workspace home is the starting point for asking Beam to perform a task or brainstorm. The workspace navigation provides access to Skills, Projects, Inbox, Tasks, Agent templates, Integrations, and Views.

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Agents

An agent is the unit you configure to perform work. You can start from Agent templates or select New agent in the template gallery. An agent includes its own Chat, Tasks, Flow, Learning, Configuration, and Analytics areas.

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Flows

A Flow is the configured graph that an agent uses to carry out work. The current Flow canvas starts with a Trigger and can contain tool and LLM-based Condition nodes. Its header shows the Flow state, Test mode, and Publish controls. When you select a tool node, the sidebar includes Parameters, Settings, and Evaluation. Parameters includes input variables, model, output variables, and integrations.

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Tools and integrations

Tools give a Flow the capabilities it needs to complete work. Use the workspace Integrations page to browse available integrations, add a connection, review existing connections, or start a custom integration. Configure the integration used by a Flow node from the node sidebar’s Parameters → Integrations section. See Selecting Tools and Integrations.

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Variables

Variables supply values to node inputs while a Flow runs. Beam currently provides seven fill methods:

• Auto fill
• Prompt fill
• Linked fill
• Static fill
• User fill
• Memory fill
• Attachment fill

See Variable Fill for when to use each method.

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Memory

Each agent has a Memory module. Add documents from Configuration → Memory → Add data, then use Memory fill when a node needs knowledge from those files as an input. Google Drive and SharePoint connections for keeping an agent’s memory in sync with repository folders are planned but are not yet available.

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Tasks

A task is one execution of an agent. Use the workspace Tasks page to review task records, switch between Tasks and Tests, filter the list, search by task name, and create a task manually. See Task Executions for the verified task-list and task-detail controls.

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Triggers

The Flow canvas begins with a Trigger node. Select it to review existing trigger cards or add a trigger. The detailed trigger configuration depends on the trigger type; see Triggers and Webhooks for the current verified Gmail trigger editor.

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Next steps