Drupal AI | AI Agents in Action

Overview

In this session, we’ll move beyond one-off AI calls and explore how to build fully capable AI agents that can reason, make decisions, and take actions using your site’s data.

This is a hands-on session where we will walk through the core agent architecture, create custom tools, and configure prompts. We’ll conclude by building a live, working agent that automates seasonal recipe campaign planning - from analyzing your recipe database to drafting tailored outreach emails.

What You’ll Learn

Understanding AI Agents

• What makes an AI agent different from a simple LLM prompt call
• How reasoning loops, tool usage, and decision-making work in an agent
• Common use cases and real-world enterprise patterns

Building Your First Agent

• Writing prompts and system instructions for agent behavior
• Advanced agent configuration in Drupal
• Developing and attaching custom tools for data access and actions
• Techniques for testing and debugging agent runs and tool interactions

Hands-On: Recipe Campaign Agent

• Identify seasonal themes using your existing recipe content
• Automatically generate campaign recommendations based on database signals
• Draft and trigger personalized campaign outreach emails through the chatbot interface

Who Should Attend

• Drupal Developers and Site Builders experimenting with applied AI
• Technical Architects exploring how to operationalize intelligent workflows
• Teams seeking to automate content-driven engagement or marketing flows

Key Takeaways

By the end of the session, you will:

• Know how to configure and extend the AI Agent module in Drupal
• Be able to create and connect custom agent tools
• Walk away with a working recipe campaign automation agent

Format

• Type: Live Interactive Session
• Duration: ~60 minutes
• Includes: Live walkthroughs, debugging exploration, demos, and Q&A