Elastic announced general availability of Agent Builder for building context-driven AI agents on Elasticsearch, with native MCP and A2A support and Elastic Workflows in tech preview, the company said on 22 January 2026.
Search platforms are packaging agent builders that ground responses in enterprise indexes rather than leaving retrieval to separate stacks. Buyers still need observability, tool governance and proof agents respect index permissions.
Elastic sells Elasticsearch and the Elastic Search AI Platform. Agent Builder covers data preparation, retrieval and ranking, tools, conversational experience and agent observability.
Platform owners should insist on permission-aware and latency pilots — before treating any Agent Builder GA as a completed search-agent programme.