Portal Agent is the AI brain built into every Portals workspace. Instead of suggesting what you should do, it acts: creating cards, drawing shapes, running web searches, generating images, and building interactive mini-apps — all from a single prompt. You stay in the canvas while the agent does the work.Documentation Index
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Opening the agent
Open the chat panel
Click the Portal Agent button in the top toolbar, or press
Cmd+K (Mac) / Ctrl+K (Windows) from anywhere in the workspace. The chat panel slides in on the right side of the canvas.Type your prompt
Describe what you want in plain language. The agent interprets your intent, selects the right combination of tools, and executes them in sequence. You can watch each tool call appear in real time as the agent works.
Portal Agent works out of the box using Pollinations — a free AI provider that requires no API key. To use OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Groq, Ollama, or OpenRouter instead, see AI providers.
What the agent can do
Canvas manipulation
Create, edit, move, and connect brainstorming cards. Draw shapes, add text, build mind maps and flowcharts. The agent positions everything intelligently so you don’t have to.
Web research
Search the web, pull in article summaries with citations, find images, and search YouTube — all placed directly on your canvas as cards.
Content and image generation
Generate AI images via Pollinations, create structured content cards on any topic, and produce slides or storyboards in Compose mode.
Interactive applets
Build live mini-apps — charts, calculators, data visualizations, polls, and more — embedded as interactive cards directly on the canvas.
Works across all three modes
Portal Agent is available in every canvas mode and automatically uses the tools that make sense for each context.- Brainstorming
- Design
- Compose
In Brainstorming mode, the agent creates cards, shapes, connectors, sections, and mind maps on the infinite canvas. Use it to generate research boards, moodboards, and structured layouts from a single prompt.
Example prompts
Copy and paste any of these directly into the agent chat to get started.Learn more
Canvas tools
Full reference for every canvas manipulation tool the agent can call.
Web search
How the agent searches the web and adds citations to your canvas.
Applets
AI-generated interactive mini-apps embedded on the canvas.