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Agent flow output not usable in the Topic

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Posted on by LR-01101603-0 4
Hello everyone,
I'm working on sample Agent; one of its functionalities should be to provide the lastest AI news from a specific source, on demand. I'll show you what i did so far and where i get stuck.
 
1) Created a topic triggered by the user's request for the lastest AI news. 
2) The topic then proceeds to call on a Agent Flow to fetch these news.
3) The flow is a simple HTTP request to a free news feedback, with some filtering to better limit the results to the AI news. The HTTP JSON is then parsed. Finally, the flow is "Responding to agent" by using the variable "News Output" that contains Body.Content (which is the body of the news outputted by the HTTP request). You can see it below:



Next, i would simply like the Topic to write back all the 10 news recovered. However, when i try to do that, there's no Custom variable availabile (i would be expecting to find News Output here). You can see it below:



Can you help me understand what am i doing wrong? How come the output from the Agent Flow is not available in the follow up topic?

Thank you in advance to everyone who'll spend time looking into this.
 
Cheers!

Luca
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    Michael E. Gernaey Profile Picture
    Michael E. Gernaey 49,350 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at
    Agent flow output not usable in the Topic
     
    2 things to check
     
    1. I cannot see your Flow action, so can you please verify that you are actually capturing the outputs IN there? You would have to open the action to show it, as that is where you would define your Variable to capture the output and make it part of the Topic.Variablehere accessible (under custom). 
     
    So please share that picture
     
    2. I know you said you were cleaning up, but what is the body content coning from, as I see the For each (cannot see anything on the inside of it) but jus want to make sure you are actually passing back what you think you are,
     
    So to call your Power Automate  you should
    1. Select the Tool
    2. Define the inputs
    3. Define the outputs
    --assign to a Variable
     
    Thats what I am looking for
     
    Also, lastly look at your Flow, verify that your Body Content actually has data
    And put a description in for it.
     

    If these suggestions help resolve your issue, Please consider Marking the answer as such and also maybe a like.

    Thank you!
    Sincerely, Michael Gernaey
     

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