Agentic Studio: Agent Export Drops These Fields

This is a short post about a small quirk I found whilst working on Agents in Agentic Studio. When exporting an agent there are 2 fields that get dropped or cannot be exported, even when you add them manually:

Agent Type
Tags

Set them in the editor, export the agent, import it again, and both come back empty. You re-apply them by hand every time.

We tested this deliberately back in July. Set both fields, re-exported, and the file gained no keys at all — nothing resembling a type or a tag anywhere in it.

Then it got murkier. An export I took this month has tags sitting in it at the top level:

"tags": ["SEO", "AEO", "Metadata"]

So either the platform changed between July and August, or our original test was narrower than we thought. I have not managed to separate those two yet.

What hasn't changed is the practical bit: after an import, check Agent Type and Tags and re-apply them.

I have logged a support ticket with Sitecore about this and will update this post once I hear back on the outcome.

Nothing too alarming right now as I see it, but it's more just something to be aware of as you test out and migrate your agents around instances.

References

Export or import an agent — Sitecore documentation