# Source: https://docs.avaamo.com/user-guide/how-to/build-agents/add-skills.md

# Create Classic agent

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**Note**: Ensure you have met the [pre-requisites](https://docs.avaamo.com/user-guide/quick-start-tutorials/pre-requisites).
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Consider that you are required to build a **Pizza agent** for "Mac Pizza - a Quick Service Restaurant", where you can place online orders for pizzas.&#x20;

* In the Avaamo Platform UI, click the **Agents** option in the top menu, navigate to the **Development** tab, and select **Classic Agent** under **Create**.
* Specify the following details and click **Create**:

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<table><thead><tr><th width="196.13649044738344">Parameters</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Agent name</td><td>Indicates the name of the agent. As you promote the agent to different stages in the life cycle (Testing, Staging, and Production), this name is used to identify the agent in the different stages.</td></tr><tr><td>Agent description</td><td>Indicates the description of the agent. Use this to specify the purpose of the agent.</td></tr><tr><td>Agent avatar</td><td><p>Indicates the avatar used for identifying the agent. Browse and choose your avatar image. Agent avatar file name must be in UTF-8 format.</p><p><br> - Recommended image types: PNG, JPEG<br> - Recommended image size: 200px * 200px</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

A new empty agent is created with certain pre-built skills. See [Next steps](#next-steps), for more information on how to continue adding skills to your agent.

### Next steps

&#x20;In the next steps, you can continue to enhance your agent by:

* Updating the default [built-in skills](https://docs.avaamo.com/user-guide/how-to/add-skills-to-agent#built-in-skills) with a greeting message to the user&#x20;
* [Adding custom skills](https://docs.avaamo.com/user-guide/how-to/add-skills-to-agent#custom-skills) using an interactive skill builder