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Agentic Automation on UiPath

UiPath — one of the largest RPA vendors — describes itself as offering the first enterprise-grade platform for agentic automation, built around two complementary products: Agent Builder and Maestro.

What Agent Builder and Maestro are​

Agent Builder is where you create individual AI agents: you define a system prompt, give the agent tools it's allowed to call, ground it in business context, and configure escalations for when it needs a human. Agent Builder supports two paths — a low-code visual canvas for prototyping quickly, or a code-first Python SDK for teams that want deeper customization — and both paths lead to production-ready agents.

Maestro is the orchestration layer above individual agents. It's a cloud-native, low-code BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) builder that lets teams design end-to-end business processes visually, coordinating multiple agents, existing RPA robots, and human steps within a single, unambiguous process definition. Maestro is what gives an enterprise centralized oversight as it scales from one agent to many.

How agents relate to UiPath's existing RPA robots​

Agents built with Agent Builder aren't a replacement for UiPath's existing Robots (the traditional RPA building block) — they're designed to call them. Maestro can integrate agents built via Agent Builder (or even external LLM-based agents) into the same orchestrated workflow as existing robots, managing fallback logic and human escalation across the whole process.

Where it fits in the platform​

  • Agent Builder (Studio Web) — where individual agents are designed, tested, and published (this section's tutorials focus here).
  • Maestro — where multiple agents, robots, and human steps are orchestrated into a full business process.
  • Orchestrator — where published agents and robots are deployed, managed, and monitored.

Getting access​

UiPath offers a free tier with no credit card required, which is enough to follow the walkthrough in this section.

Next: Core concepts introduces the vocabulary — tools, context grounding, and escalations — that Agent Builder is built around.