Bonito Studio: Describe It, Watch It Build
Standing up a working AI agent has always been a checklist. Connect the providers. Write the system prompt. Build and ingest a knowledge base. Mint the gateway keys. Set the routing and the guardrails. Wire the handoffs between agents. It works, but it is a platform-team job, and it is exactly the friction that keeps most teams from shipping.
Bonito Studio removes the checklist. It is a chat-first front door: you describe the outcome you want, and you watch it get built.
Describe the outcome
You do not configure anything. You say what you need in plain language — for example, *"a customer support agent that searches our policy knowledge base and escalates billing questions to a human."* Studio proposes a blueprint, you confirm it, and then it builds.
Watch it build
Confirmation kicks off a live build in a workspace pane beside the chat. Studio stands up the project, creates the agents, provisions the knowledge base, mints the gateway key, and wires the agent-to-agent handoffs — and you watch each resource appear as it happens, as a graph or a list. It is the "watch the agent work" experience, applied to building your own AI infrastructure.
Governed by default
Everything Studio builds inherits Bonito's guardrails, not as an afterthought but as the default. Tools are default-deny. Budgets have hard stops. Every action lands in the same immutable audit ledger as the rest of your platform, and every resource is scoped to your org with proper tenant isolation. You get from idea to a governed, multi-agent team in one conversation — without giving up the controls that make it safe to run in production.
Not a wrapper
Studio runs on a hand-rolled orchestrator, not someone else's agent SDK. That was a deliberate call: an SDK could not route through our own multi-cloud gateway, and it carried a large token overhead we measured and rejected. So Studio dogfoods the product — it plans and builds through the same governed Bonito gateway your workloads use, with model failover underneath, so a rate-limited or degraded model does not stall a build.
Why this is the front door
The whole point of Bonito is that agents get work done. Studio is where that starts: the fastest path from "I have a problem" to "I have a governed agent solving it." No platform team required, no checklist, no lock-in — just describe it, and watch it build.
