# Step 3: Try your agent

Setting up on your own: ask your agent questions in the Agent Studio preview, then follow the four-part Setup tour through Knowledge, Messages and Appearance. Finishing the tour completes Try your agent on Home.

This is the Markdown version of https://www.meetdarwin.ai/help/set-up-on-your-own/try-your-agent, published by Darwin and generated on 23 October 2026.

Find it in Darwin: Agent Studio → Preview (https://app.meetdarwin.ai/admin/agent). Updated Oct 13, 2026.

Before visitors see your agent, talk to it yourself. Agent Studio's preview is the real chat, and a short **Setup tour** walks you through the three tabs worth checking.

_Screenshot: The Setup tour card, step 1 of 4: Test your agent. Open the chat in Preview and ask a question a visitor might ask. Buttons for Next: Knowledge, Pause tour and Ask Darwin._

1. **Start the tour**

   Open **Agent Studio** and select **Start setup tour**. If you've started before, it says **Resume setup tour**.

2. **Test your agent**

   In the preview, select the chat button and ask what a real visitor would: what you do, what it costs, whether you fit their case, how to book. Then select **Next: Knowledge**.

   _Screenshot: The Agent Studio preview with the chat open and a test conversation._

3. **Review Knowledge**

   **Knowledge** lists the pages Darwin read from your website. If an answer was wrong or missing, add the page that has the facts, or add them under business context. Then select **Next: Messages**.

   _Screenshot: Agent Studio with the Knowledge tab selected: websites, pages and documents your agent answers from._

4. **Review Messages**

   Check the name, voice and opening line you set in [step 1](https://www.meetdarwin.ai/help/set-up-on-your-own/set-up-your-agent). Then select **Next: Appearance**.

5. **Review Appearance**

   Set the chat's colors, font and corners to match your website, and save. Then select **Finish tour**.

   _Screenshot: Agent Studio with the Appearance tab selected: colors, type, launcher and the preview._

## Good to know

- **Finish tour** needs at least one real reply in the preview, so ask a question before you finish.
- The tour is optional. You can go live without it, but testing first is the best way to catch a wrong answer.
- **Pause tour** keeps your place, and **Resume setup tour** picks it up again.
- The refresh icon in the preview's address bar starts a fresh chat. More in [Test your agent](https://www.meetdarwin.ai/help/before-you-launch/test-your-agent).

- [Step 4: Add the chat to your website](https://www.meetdarwin.ai/help/set-up-on-your-own/add-the-chat-to-your-website): A guide for each kind of website.
- [Back to the overview](https://www.meetdarwin.ai/help/set-up-on-your-own/set-up-darwin-on-your-own): All five steps.