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Stack Exchange

Let your agent search Stack Exchange answers and check questions during a call.

Stack Exchange hosts Q&A communities for programming, math, and many other technical topics. With AgentCalls connected to Stack Exchange, your agent can search questions by keyword or tag, pull up the answers and comments on a specific thread, and read back the top results to a caller. It can also list collectives and the tags they use, so a caller who asks where to find help on a topic gets a direct answer. Connect once by signing in to Stack Exchange from the AgentCalls dashboard.

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What your agent can do with Stack Exchange

  • Search questions on a Stack Exchange site by keyword or tag and read back the top matches.
  • Look up comments and revision history on specific posts before answering a caller's question.
  • List collectives and their tags so callers can find the right community for their topic.
  • Retrieve the list of available Stack Exchange sites and their identifiers.

Stack Exchange exposes 121 actions. You choose which ones the agent may use and whether each runs during or after the call.

Example calls

Caller asks for a known solution

  1. Caller

    Hi, I keep getting a CORS error when I call my API from the browser. Has this been asked before?

  2. Agent

    Yes, there are several questions on that. The most viewed one is about setting Access-Control-Allow-Origin on the server. Do you want me to send the link to your email?

  3. Caller

    Yes, please send it to dev@brightpath.io.

  4. Agent

    Done. I have sent it now. Anything else I can look up for you?

Finding a community for a topic

  1. Caller

    We are a small accounting firm and want to ask a question about spreadsheet formulas. Where should we go?

  2. Agent

    Stack Exchange has a community for that. Spreadsheet questions are covered on the Super User site, and the tags spreadsheets and excel are the most active there.

  3. Caller

    Great, can you check that the excel tag has recent questions?

  4. Agent

    Yes, there are several questions from this week with answers. I will read you the title of the top one.

Follow-up on an outstanding question

  1. Caller

    Hello, this is Mark from Harlow Math Tutors. Did anyone answer the question I posted about integration by parts?

  2. Agent

    Let me check. I can see your question has two answers and one comment asking for more detail.

  3. Caller

    What did the top answer say?

  4. Agent

    It suggests choosing u as the function that gets simpler when differentiated. I can email you the full link if you want to read the steps.

How to connect Stack Exchange

  1. 1

    Create your agent

    Sign up to AgentCalls, pick an English or Arabic voice and write what the agent should know and do in plain language.

  2. 2

    Connect Stack Exchange

    From Integrations in the dashboard, choose Stack Exchange and sign in with your account. Connecting takes one click and can be revoked at any time.

  3. 3

    Choose the actions

    In the agent editor, enable the Stack Exchange actions the agent may use and set each to run during the call or afterwards. Then test it from your browser.

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Questions, answered.

Does the agent search Stack Exchange during the call or after it?

During the call. Your agent can run a search while the caller is on the line and read back the results, or send a link by text or email afterwards.

What do I need to connect Stack Exchange?

An AgentCalls account on a Growth plan or higher, and a Stack Exchange account. Sign in to Stack Exchange from the AgentCalls dashboard and the connection is made in one click.

Can the agent post questions or answers for my business?

Your agent can search, read, and look up Stack Exchange content. Posting and voting are not part of how it is used on calls.

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Put your agent to work with Stack Exchange.

Connect in minutes, test from your browser, go live on a number in the US, UK or Gulf. Free to start, no card needed.

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