Examples

Example: choose a provider, model, and role

Make three separate choices based on the job, risk, and operating constraints.

Add the provider

Onboarding and Environment list the supported provider credentials. Save only the key you need; secrets remain write-only after saving.

Sentinel onboarding screen for adding a model provider key — The provider step appears before knowledge and agent creation so model availability is explicit.

Choose a model

Work	Optimize for	Validate
Routing / extraction	Latency and consistent schema output	Field accuracy on edge cases
Grounded support	Instruction following and citation use	Refusal when evidence is missing
Complex analysis	Reasoning quality and context capacity	Quality gain versus latency and cost

Choose a role

Use a fleet agent for independent end-to-end work, an orchestrator to delegate, a sub-agent for one specialty, and a tactical node for a tightly repeatable transformation. The role describes responsibility; the model describes capability.