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Support response draft agent blueprint.

Draft a clear answer from approved knowledge and case evidence, with uncertainty and escalation stated explicitly.

Search intent: AI agent for customer support responses

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01 · the contract

Start from a bounded job, not a blank chat box.

trigger

A support owner requests a response draft.

owner

customer experience owner

agent stops at

A support agent approves and sends the customer response.

KPI · increase

response drafts accepted with minor edits (percent). Measure drafts sent after only nonmaterial human edits.

inputs

Evidence the run may read

  • Customer question and case history
  • Approved knowledge
  • Product and account context
outputs

Artifacts the run must produce

  • Cited response draft
  • Troubleshooting steps
  • Escalation and uncertainty notes
02 · topology

Small specialists. Named handoffs. One accountable decision.

Each stage produces an artifact another stage can inspect. The final node is a person, not an autonomous write to an external system.

  1. 01

    intake

    Validate and normalize the support response draft inputs.

  2. 02

    intent analyst

    Produce the cited response draft.

  3. 03

    knowledge retriever

    Produce the troubleshooting steps.

  4. 04

    support response reviewer

    Challenge the support response draft result and prepare an approval packet.

  5. 05

    customer experience owner

    A support agent approves and sends the customer response.

intakevalidated input packetintent-analyst
intent-analystCited response draftknowledge-retriever
knowledge-retrieverTroubleshooting stepssupport-response-reviewer
support-response-reviewerapproval packet with evidence referenceshuman-approver
03 · authority

Grant the run only what this case needs.

Source material is read-only. Drafts land in a case-specific output path. Tools may read or propose; the human gate owns the external write.

read

case inputs

workspace/customer-success/support-response-draft/inputs/**

Read only the evidence attached to this workflow instance.

write-output

case outputs

workspace/customer-success/support-response-draft/outputs/**

Write drafts and evidence artifacts without modifying source records.

invoke-scoped-tool

approved tools

customer-success:support-response-draft:read-or-propose

Invoke only tools explicitly granted for this run; external writes remain gated.

required human decision

A support agent approves and sends the customer response.

Decision owner: customer experience owner.

04 · implementation

A private, bounded starting manifest.

The blueprint starts private, caps its DAG, disables replanning, and exposes no public endpoint. Add only the tools and data adapters this workflow has approved.

a2a.yamlsafe starting point
name: customer-success-support-response-draft
version: 0.1.0
entrypoint: agent:BlueprintAgent
expose:
  public: false
composition:
  planning: deterministic_dag
  max_nodes: 6
  max_parallel: 1
  max_replans: 0
05 · acceptance test

Pass only with evidence.

  1. 01

    Evidence traceability

    Every material conclusion cites an input artifact or a scoped tool result from this run.

  2. 02

    Instructions match current approved guidance and the draft makes no unsupported promise.

    Instructions match current approved guidance and the draft makes no unsupported promise.

  3. 03

    Approval boundary

    The run stops at a proposal and records the human decision before any external side effect.

failure containment

Stop small. Preserve the evidence.

Available knowledge does not cover the customer's version, configuration, or symptom.

Containment: Return a partial result with unresolved items; do not broaden scope or perform an external write.

Operator: Attach the missing evidence, narrow the brief, or explicitly approve a new scoped run.

A required input or tool grant is unavailable.

Containment: Stop the affected branch and preserve completed artifacts in the case output workspace.

Operator: Grant only the missing resource or continue with that branch marked out of scope.

06 · proof

Sign the run facts. Keep money in the billing ledger.

Current platform receipts sign caller identity or classification, skill, bounded input evidence, verified grant IDs when present, outcome or result preview, and timing. Optional file, tool, artifact, handoff, evaluation, and review fields require separate instrumentation and are not populated by default. Price, fees, payouts, and later human approvals remain separate platform records.

The example uses only fields populated by the current platform sealing paths. It is illustrative, not a record of a real customer run.

ExecutionReceipt · selected fieldsEd25519 token
{
  "receipt_id": "rcpt_01J...",
  "schema_version": 1,
  "agent_name": "customer-success-support-response-draft",
  "caller": "user:workflow-owner",
  "task_id": "case_support_response_draft",
  "skill_name": "support_response_draft",
  "input_hash": "4d7c...9a2f",
  "grant_ids": [
    "grt_case_inputs",
    "grt_tool_propose"
  ],
  "status": "ok",
  "result_preview": "Output prepared: Cited response draft. Human decision remains separate.",
  "elapsed_ms": 4218
}
put the pattern to work

Start private. Scope the authority. Require the decision.

Deploy the workflow as a bounded internal agent, verify its outputs and the receipt fields actually emitted, then expand only the scopes your acceptance test proves it needs.