Configure your agent’s behavior to suit your business needs:
Behavior: Define the agent’s role, personality, and communication style. Be specific about how the agent should interact with visitors. Use the built-in prompt generator to create and refine your agent’s instructions.
Model: Select the LLM powering your agent (e.g., GPT-4o mini, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Gemini 3 Flash). Each model consumes different amounts of tokens and has different capabilities.
Knowledge Restrictions: Choose whether to restrict the agent’s responses to only your provided knowledge content. Make sure to specify to the agent what to answer if the knowledge base doesn’t contain an answer.
Emojis: Choose whether to enable emojis in the agent’s responses
You can enable the following tools to enhance messaging agent functionality:
Takeover Request: Enables the agent to automatically request a conversation to be taken over by a human agent when appropriate or when the user requests to speak to a human. You will receive a notification about the takeover request.
Each tool can be toggled on/off using the switches, allowing you to customize the feature set based on your needs.
You can pause your Facebook agent at any time to take over and respond to messages manually. This will stop the agent from responding to new messages.To pause your agent:
Click the ... menu on your agent’s card
Select Pause
You can also resume your agent by clicking the ... menu on your agent’s card and selecting Resume.