Content Agent: AI That Runs Content Operations at Scale

Last updated: 17.01.2026

Content operations at scale is hard. Managing thousands of documents, maintaining consistency across a content library, transforming source material into polished articles, and keeping everything up to date—these tasks consume enormous amounts of time and resources. Traditional AI writing assistants can help draft individual pieces, but they weren't built to understand your content structure, audit your entire library, or make coordinated changes across hundreds of documents at once.

That's where Content Agent comes in. It's the first AI agent built specifically for content operations at scale, designed to handle the complex, repetitive, and time-consuming work that content teams face every day.

Beyond AI Writing Assistants

Most AI writing tools are essentially smart text generators. They can help you write a blog post or polish a paragraph, but they operate in isolation—one document at a time, with no understanding of your content structure or how documents relate to each other.

Content Agent is fundamentally different. It understands your content schema—the document types, field requirements, validation rules, and relationships that define your content model. It can analyze your entire content library, identify patterns and problems, and execute coordinated changes across thousands of documents. It's not just writing content; it's running content operations.

Key Capabilities

1. Pipeline Capabilities: From Source to Published

Content Agent excels at transforming raw source material into polished, published content. Need to turn a press release into a blog post? Just ask: "Turn this press release into a blog post." The agent understands the structure of your blog post document type, extracts the key information from the source material, and creates a properly formatted article with all required fields populated.

This pipeline capability extends beyond simple conversion. Content Agent can take meeting notes, product specifications, research reports, or any other source material and transform it into the appropriate content format for your needs—whether that's a blog post, product page, case study, or documentation article.

2. Analysis at Scale: Content Health and Gap Detection

One of Content Agent's most powerful capabilities is its ability to audit and analyze content at scale. You can ask questions like "Find all posts missing meta descriptions and write them" or "Which articles need updating based on our new product launch?" The agent can scan through thousands of documents, identify issues, gaps, and opportunities, and even fix them automatically.

This capability is invaluable for maintaining content health. Instead of manually reviewing documents one by one, you can get instant insights into your entire content library: missing SEO metadata, outdated information, broken references, inconsistent formatting, or content gaps in your coverage.

3. Bulk Editing: Coordinated Changes Across Hundreds of Documents

When your company rebrands, updates a product name, or needs to change URLs across your entire site, Content Agent can handle it. It can update hundreds or thousands of documents at once, making coordinated changes while respecting your content structure and validation rules.

The bulk editing capability goes beyond simple find-and-replace. Content Agent understands context and can make intelligent updates. For example, it can update all references to an old product name while preserving the surrounding text, adjust URLs while maintaining proper slug formatting, or update brand terminology consistently across different content types.

4. Visual Editing: Adjusting Images with Natural Language

Content isn't just text. Content Agent can generate and edit images using natural language instructions. Need to adjust the hero image on a landing page? Just describe what you want changed. The agent can generate new images from scratch or modify existing ones, all while properly managing image assets and metadata within your content structure.

5. Research Integration: Connecting Internal Content with External Intelligence

Content Agent doesn't operate in a vacuum. It can perform web research to gather current information, market trends, and competitive intelligence, then integrate that research with your internal content. This capability is essential for creating content that's not only well-structured but also accurate, current, and informed by the latest developments in your industry.

Technical Features That Make It Powerful

Several technical capabilities distinguish Content Agent from typical AI tools and make it uniquely suited for content operations at scale.

Document Sets and Bulk Operations

Content Agent can work with document sets—collections of related documents that need coordinated updates. This enables true bulk operations where changes are applied consistently across multiple documents while maintaining referential integrity and respecting validation rules.

Staged Changes and Releases

One of the most important features for enterprise content operations is the ability to review changes before they go live. Content Agent supports staged changes—you can review all modifications, approve or reject them, and then commit them as a coordinated release. This gives you control and confidence when making large-scale updates.

Schema-Aware Operations

Content Agent understands your content schema deeply. It knows which fields are required, what validation rules apply, which document types can reference each other, and how your content model is structured. This schema awareness ensures that all changes respect your content model and maintain data integrity.

When creating or updating documents, Content Agent automatically validates field types, respects maximum lengths, ensures required fields are populated, and maintains proper reference relationships. It's not just making changes—it's making valid, structurally correct changes.

Multi-Agent Architecture

Under the hood, Content Agent uses a multi-agent architecture with specialized agents for different tasks. There are agents optimized for document mutations, query operations, image generation, and research. This specialization enables more efficient and accurate operations—each agent is purpose-built for its specific domain.

Direct Content Lake Integration

Content Agent operates directly on Sanity's Content Lake, the underlying data store for all your content. This direct integration means the agent has full access to your content structure, can perform complex queries efficiently, and can make updates that are immediately reflected across all your applications and channels.

Pricing and Availability

Content Agent is included in all Sanity plans—Free, Growth, and Enterprise. Rather than charging per seat or per feature, Content Agent uses an AI credit system that aligns costs with actual usage.

How AI Credits Work

Content Agent operations consume AI credits based on two types of activities:

• Query (your message to Content Agent): 4 credits
• Action (tool use by Content Agent): 2 credits

Actions include document analysis, content creation, web searches, and GROQ queries. For multi-document operations, credits are counted per document—so analyzing 10 articles means 10 separate actions.

Monthly Included Credits

Each Sanity plan includes a monthly allocation of AI credits:

• Free plan: 100 AI credits per month
• Growth plan: 100 AI credits per month
• Enterprise plan: 500 AI credits per month

If you need more credits, additional capacity is available. Growth plan customers can purchase credits at $0.05 per AI credit, while Enterprise customers have access to AI credit bundles tailored to their usage patterns.

Understanding Credit Consumption

To help you understand how credits translate to real work, here are some practical examples:

• "Show Q3 blog posts" = 1 query + 1 action = 6 credits
• "Analyze 10 articles for SEO issues" = 1 query + ~12 actions = ~28 credits
• "Create 5 product pages from specifications" = 1 query + ~15 actions = ~34 credits

The exact number of actions varies based on the complexity of the task and the number of documents involved, but this gives you a sense of how credits map to actual content operations.

Cost Control and Monitoring

Sanity provides comprehensive tools to help you manage AI credit usage. You can set spending limits to prevent unexpected charges, monitor usage in real-time through your dashboard, and pause AI features if needed. This gives you full control over costs while still benefiting from Content Agent's powerful capabilities.

AI That Actually Runs Content Operations

Content Agent represents a fundamental shift in how AI can support content teams. This isn't AI bolted onto a CMS as an afterthought—it's AI that actually runs content operations. It understands your content model, works at scale, maintains data integrity, and gives you control through staged releases and review workflows.

For content teams managing large libraries, Content Agent transforms what's possible. Tasks that would take days or weeks—auditing thousands of documents, making coordinated updates, transforming source material into published content—can now be accomplished in minutes. And because it's schema-aware and supports staged changes, you maintain full control and confidence in the results.

This is content operations at scale, powered by AI that truly understands content.