Elastic brings Agent Builder to general availability, pushing enterprise AI agents closer to production

Elastic has moved its Agent Builder into general availability, expanding the platform’s capabilities to help enterprises build AI agents that are grounded in their own data and capable of taking reliable, context-driven actions.

The announcement marks a step beyond experimental agent frameworks toward more production-ready deployments. While interest in AI agents is surging, many organisations continue to struggle with a familiar problem: agents fail when they lack accurate context or cannot reliably interact with enterprise systems. Elastic is positioning Agent Builder as an answer to that gap.

Built on Elastic’s Elasticsearch platform, Agent Builder focuses on what the company calls “context engineering” — the ability to retrieve, rank, and analyse enterprise data at scale so agents can reason more accurately. The platform brings together data ingestion, retrieval, built-in and custom tools, conversational interfaces, and agent observability in a single workflow. According to Elastic, developers can either ...