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Introducing Nexus

Nexus is a versioned agent harness for B2B support. It orchestrates frontier and open-weight models with domain-specific context, memory, tools, routing, evals, and runtime controls.

Nexus architecture

Nexus is the agentic harness that powers capabilities in Pylon. It runs on three layers of precomputed context: your support history, account context, and product knowledge. It provides the scaffolding around models that makes them useful for real customer workflows.

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Applications (Pylon Agents)
Assist Agent
Investigate and act on demand
Automations
Trigger work from signals
Support Agent
Resolve issues end to end
Slack Agent
Get context and take action directly from Slack
Agent Harness
Running
Nexus
Context
Find the right info at the right time
Memory
Remember key facts and preferences
Traces
Record investigation paths and outcomes
Routing
Select the best model for each task
Guardrails
Validate, review, and require approval
Improve
Learn from every run
Intelligence layers
Support Intelligence
Past resolutions, escalation policies, tone, and SOPs
Account Intelligence
Use cases, stakeholders, sentiment, configuration, and contract details
Product Intelligence
Bugs, feature requests, roadmap, and code
Models under the hood
OpenAI
Jev
Open Weight

Lifecycle of a request

This is what happens between a customer request arriving and an agent taking its next action. We’ll follow one request through five stages. In this example, a customer reports a CRM sync error.

01
Construct the current state
Step 01

Construct the current state

Nexus reconstructs the session so the model sees only what is new since it last acted, including results from background tasks that completed in the meantime.

Specification
1.1
Session. A shareable session persists for the life of the issue. Nexus updates it as new customer replies and teammate notes arrive.
1.2
Background tasks. Nexus checks for asynchronous work that completed while the session was inactive and incorporates the results before the agent continues.
1.3
Multimodal ingestion. Images, videos, and files are parsed and annotated before being used in an investigation.
Example

A customer sends a video of a CRM sync error and then follows up with another message. Nexus transcribes the video, adds the new message to the session, and incorporates the result of a background task that already classified the issue as a CRM integration problem.

02
Load context
Step 02

Load context

Nexus equips the agent with the knowledge, Skills, guidance, and tools it needs for the request, based on what the agent is allowed to access and do.

Specification
2.1
Permissions. Agents receive only the context and tools permitted by their configuration. This limits both the information available to the agent and the operations it can run.
2.2
Intelligence layers. Based on the request, Nexus retrieves relevant context from Support, Account, and Product Intelligence. Because the intelligence layers are precomputed, retrieval is fast and efficient.
2.3
Skills. Nexus loads packaged workflows that can automate relevant tasks or subtasks.
2.4
Guidance. Instructions define how the agent should communicate, when to stop, and when to escalate to a human.
2.5
Memory. Nexus loads relevant information retained from previous interactions, including user preferences, organizational policies, and durable account facts.
Example

Nexus retrieves Account Intelligence about the customer’s CRM use case and sync requirements from Customer Success and Sales calls; Product Intelligence from Salesforce docs and open Salesforce feature requests; and Support Intelligence from similar prior investigations and any active incident affecting the integration.

03
Execute, observe, adapt
Step 03

Execute, observe, adapt

Nexus executes each approved operation inside a bounded runtime, then routes the result to the appropriate model as a structured observation for the next step.

Specification
3.1
Controlled execution. Independent operations can run concurrently within defined time, cost, and output limits. Nexus validates each call before it runs.
3.2
Progress detection. Nexus detects repeated calls, stale state, failed dependencies, and stalled investigations.
3.3
Structured observation loop. Tool results, errors, citations, and state changes return as structured observations, allowing the agent to update its hypothesis and choose the next operation.
Example

The agent searches the logs for the underlying error, looks up the error in Salesforce docs, and compares its findings with the codebase and product roadmap. It concludes that the customer’s field type is not supported for sync.

04
Guard and commit
Step 04

Guard and commit

Nexus reviews outputs against defined policies, such as tone and PII requirements. Based on approved controls, Nexus takes action or suggests an action with cited findings.

Specification
4.1
Response controls. Customer-facing drafts pass formatting and sanitization controls. Where configured, Nexus can also require citations or apply a semantic reply audit before a response is sent.
4.2
Revision loop. A draft that fails validation returns to the agent with specific feedback rather than being suggested.
4.3
Runtime permission enforcement. Nexus checks every action against your permissions when the tool runs, not just in the interface. Certain actions require human approval before they proceed.
Example

Nexus verifies that the draft does not include PII, uses the correct sender identity, and includes supporting citations. The explanation is ready to send. Filing a feature request pauses for human approval.

05
Record, improve, evaluate
Step 05

Record, improve, evaluate

Every execution produces a trace of what the agent searched, which tools it used, what failed, and how the run ended.

Specification
5.1
Traces. Nexus records the investigation path, not just the final response: the evidence it used, the tools it called, the dead ends it encountered, and the outcome of the run. Traces can inform later investigations, surface gaps in documentation or agent guidance, support updates to articles and Skills, and feed an improvement loop for the harness itself.
5.2
Post-run review and evals. Post-run review can classify a run as clean or flag quality issues. Flagged runs can become candidate eval cases that help identify recurring failure modes and improve agent behavior over time.
5.3
New models and techniques. Pylon maintains workflow-specific eval sets and reruns them when evaluating changes to the harness, routing, retrieval, or underlying model. Pylon ships a change only when an eval run shows a measurable improvement in quality, cost, or latency. You receive those improvements without changing your workflows.
Example

Nexus stores the trace. The finding about supported CRM field types surfaces a documentation update, and the approved feature request is associated with the customer account.

Frequently asked questions
Which models does Nexus use?

Nexus uses both frontier and open-weight models, routing them against quality, latency, cost, and control targets for specific tasks or subtasks.

What happens when a better model comes out?

Pylon evaluates new models and techniques against workflow-specific eval sets. Nexus changes routing only when testing shows a measurable improvement in quality, cost, or latency for the relevant work.

Does this mean agents can access all of my data?

No. Context and tool exposure are scoped by the agent’s configuration for the task at hand. Every tool call runs with defined permissions and system-level guardrails. Sensitive or consequential actions can require human approval.

Why a harness and not a new model?

A model alone does not know what context matters for a specific customer, what has changed since its last run, which data and actions it may access, or how to improve from prior outcomes.

As models become more capable, the harness around them determines how that intelligence is applied to a specific domain and workflow.

Nexus provides that operational layer: enterprise context, model routing, controlled execution, permissions, traces, and evals.

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