Drafting Agents
Last updated: October 23, 2026
Overview
A drafting agent generates a fully formatted legal document in your firm’s style. It’s built once from your firm’s own completed documents, so the work starts from a click instead of a blank page or a copy-pasted old file.
Demand letters, complaints, and mediation statements are common uses. The output keeps your letterhead, fonts, spacing, structure, and tone, so what comes back is ready for your edits and final review.
Drafting agents live in the Agents section of Eve and run inside a matter, against the documents in that matter. Every workspace comes with example agents already built, and firms add their own.
How Drafting Agents Work
Drafting through a drafting agent is different from drafting in chat, in both process and output.
Drafting in chat returns unformatted text in response to a conversational prompt. It’s good for quick answers and rough language, but you format and structure it yourself, and it doesn’t naturally match your usual documents.
Drafting with a drafting agent returns a complete, formatted document. Eve applies the outline, style, tone, and formatting from the example documents you provided when the agent was created.
A drafting agent is created once from 2 to 10 high-quality, completed example documents in DOCX format. After that, it lives in your firm’s library and works on any matter. You can generate as many documents from one agent as you need.
Two things carry over to every run:
The format. Letterhead, fonts, spacing, headings, and structure follow your examples.
The voice. Phrasing and tone follow your examples too, so the draft reads like your firm wrote it.
What changes with each run is the matter context, which is where the facts come from.
Where Drafting Agents Live
Open Agents from the left navigation, then See all agents for the full list.
Two things determine what appears there:
Visibility settings. Each agent is either private (visible only to the person who created it) or shared with the firm. Sharing is how one person’s best demand letter becomes the way the whole firm writes them.
Type. Drafting agents sit alongside chat agents, discovery response agents, auto agents, and communication agents in the same list. Use the Agent Type filter to see just the drafting agents.
Running a Drafting Agent
Open the matter you want to draft for.
Select See all agents and click Draft a Document, or the drafting agent you want to run.
Set the matter context. Everything left checked is what Eve reads for this run. Everything unchecked may as well not exist for the duration of the task. If a folder has nothing to do with the document, uncheck it. If it’s unclear, leave it in.
(Optional) Add Central Library context if the draft should account for firm reference material, such as a style guide or standing instructions.
Click Run agent.
The finished document is saved to the matter, with citations back to the source documents, and can be exported. You can run the same agent again on the same matter, or on any other.
One Agent Per Document Style
If your firm uses different formats for different case types, create a separate drafting agent for each one. For example, a car accident demand letter and a slip and fall demand letter should be two agents, each built from its own examples. A mixed set of examples gives a mixed result, and one agent per style keeps every draft consistent.
When a Drafting Agent Is the Right Tool
The signal is repetition. If you’ve written the same kind of document on several matters and the structure was basically the same each time, that’s a drafting agent. The next person who needs it shouldn’t have to hunt for an old file to copy.
Some things are better left as chat:
A quick answer or rough language. Ask in chat. You don’t need a formatted document for a paragraph.
A document type you’ve only written once. There’s nothing to learn from yet. Write it first, then build the agent from the finished versions.
A document that’s different every time. If the structure changes with each matter, there’s no pattern for the agent to hold.
If the document is a response to written discovery, use a discovery response agent instead. See the Discovery Response Agents article.
What Context Does
Like every agent, a drafting agent reads only the matter context selected for the run. A draft can only draw on documents that were uploaded to the matter and left checked. If a fact lives in a record that was never uploaded, the agent can’t find it or cite it.
What Drafting Agents Can’t Do
They don’t send anything. The output is a first draft for your review. Use the citations to check the claims that matter before anything leaves the firm.
They only know what’s in context. A document that was unchecked, or never uploaded to the matter, can’t be read or cited.
They don’t contact anyone. Anything that goes to a client, a provider, or opposing counsel is a communication agent, which carries its own approval step. See the Communication Agents Overview.
They’re only as good as their examples. The agent follows the documents it learned from, so build it from your best work.
Manual or Automatic
Like any agent, a drafting agent can be run manually, set up as an auto agent, or both. Setting a trigger doesn’t remove the option to run it by hand. See the Auto Agents and Triggers article.
How Drafting Agents Compare to the Other Agent Types
Chat agent | Drafting agent | Discovery response agent | |
|---|---|---|---|
Returns | A conversational response | A formatted document | A structured response to written discovery |
Best for | Analysis, summaries, recommendations | Demand letters, complaints, mediation statements | Interrogatories, requests for production, requests for admission |
Learns from | Saved instructions | Example documents | Example discovery responses |
Key Terms
Drafting agent: A reusable document generation agent built from your firm’s example documents. It produces formatted legal documents that match your firm’s style and structure.
Example documents: The 2 to 10 completed DOCX files you upload when creating a drafting agent. They teach Eve your firm’s formatting, tone, and content approach for that document type.
Drafting agent library: The collection of all drafting agents available to your firm.
Private agent: An agent visible only to the person who created it.
Firm-shared agent: An agent available to everyone in the firm’s workspace.
Matter context: The documents and files from a matter that Eve reads during a run. Unchecked files are excluded entirely.
Central Library context: Optional firm reference material Eve accounts for during a run, selected in addition to matter context.