Generate Response from Model and agentic mode

Intermediate

Build model-response workflows with message history, streaming, tool calls, and safe agentic mode boundaries.

What you'll learn

What Agentic mode On and Off mean
How Messages and Save Message History To preserve context
Why tool definitions must be specific and auditable

Generate Response from Model gets a text response from an AI model. In FileMaker 22.0, it can also run in agentic mode, where the model may call tools repeatedly and FileMaker executes those tool calls in a controlled environment.

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Build a simple chat response first

For ordinary chat, leave tool definitions out and store message history in a variable or field. Stream can make the UI feel responsive while the model responds.

FileMaker Script

Generate Response from Model [
  Account Name: "main-ai" ;
  Model: Global::ModelName ;
  User Prompt: $UserPrompt ;
  Response: Chat::Response ;
  Messages: $$Messages ;
  Save Message History To: $$Messages ;
  Message History Count: 10 ;
  Stream
]

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