The Mindsmith Agent can plan, build, and revise lessons with you. It can research uploaded documents, propose a lesson structure, ask clarifying questions, and create formatted lesson pages.

This guide explains how the Agent works and how to use it while creating content.

The Mindsmith Agent lives in the input bar at the bottom of Mindsmith authoring screens. Click the bar to expand the full conversation panel, then type your request. From the bar you can also attach documents, images, or videos, reference lessons and media-library assets, switch the Agent's mode, apply a saved skill, and reopen past conversations. Web search is available only when it is enabled by your organization and in your own Agent preferences.

For a full walkthrough of every control in the editor, see The Lesson Editor.

When you ask the Agent to create a lesson, it follows a structured instructional design workflow.

First, the Agent reviews your instructions and any source materials you have provided. It reads your uploaded documents, reviews images, and analyzes video transcripts. When web search is enabled, it can also research up-to-date facts or recent statistics.

Once it understands the goal, the Agent creates a step-by-step plan. You will see this plan update in real-time as the Agent marks steps as pending, in-progress, or completed.

If your request is broad or missing critical details, the Agent will pause its work and ask clarifying questions. These questions appear in the conversation panel.

You can type a response or choose one of the Agent's suggested answers. If you skip the questions, the Agent proceeds using its own judgment and instructional design principles.

Before generating any actual lesson pages, the Agent drafts a storyboard. This outline includes:

The Agent will stop and present this storyboard to you. You can chat with the Agent to refine the objectives or rearrange the topics. The Agent will not generate the final lesson pages until you approve the storyboard outline.

Once you approve the storyboard, the Agent goes to work building the actual lesson. It automatically creates pages and populates them with a variety of elements, including text tiles, image tiles, question tiles, and interactive elements like flashcards or accordions.

The Agent is designed to work alongside you as you edit and refine your content.

The Agent uses your current authoring view and selected page or tiles as context. If you are in the storyboard view, it focuses on the outline. If you are in the lesson editor, it can target the page or tiles you selected.

You can select specific tiles on a page and give targeted instructions, such as:

The Agent is highly capable when it comes to images and video:

Ask the Agent to "review this lesson" to evaluate existing content. It can identify instructional-design or accessibility issues and recommend specific changes. Tell it whether you want only a review or want it to make the changes too.

Ask the Agent "How is this lesson performing?" and it will summarize views, completions, scores, and learner drop-off in the chat. See Analytics & Reporting for the full dashboards.

To translate a whole lesson or course, use Mindsmith's dedicated Translation & Localization feature. It manages complete language versions and applies your organization's translation glossary. You can still ask the Agent to revise or translate selected content when you need a smaller change.

When an Agent turn changes a lesson, its chat entry can offer Restore to checkpoint. Use it to return the lesson to its state before that turn when you do not want to keep the result.