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How I built a demo generator with GitLab Duo Agent Platform

Creating product demos used to be a time-consuming manual process involving screenshots, narration, and external tools. GitLab Duo Agent Platform has revolutionized this by automating much of the demo generation workflow. This platform facilitates intelligent orchestration of agentic workflows across the software development lifecycle and beyond. It can handle repetitive tasks like demo creation, allowing users to build effective click-through demos with minimal effort. The process now starts by providing screenshots and context, which an agent processes, writes narration, and builds the demo. This demo is then presented as a merge request for review and automatically published. The integration of demos into code, as files within a GitLab project, makes them more accessible and manageable. This shift transforms demos from a single person's burden into a collaborative team asset. GitLab Duo Agent Platform provides the necessary infrastructure for these agentic automations, including custom flows and direct integration with GitLab tools. Users can start building their own agents by forking a project and following setup instructions. Even non-developers can leverage these tools to automate tasks, as demonstrated by the example of creating a "Daily Planner" agent. By starting simple with single-purpose agents, users can gradually build assistants that manage their workflows.