Sana

An AI-powered mental health screening agent.

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Inspiration

The main inspiration was the mental health care revolution that the world is ongoing. Mental health went from being a stigmatized luxury to a day-to-day thing for a lot of people, with the appearance of digital therapy and resources. This project looks to expand upon that by leveraging AI in the mental health area, in a very safe way.

What it does

Sana is a mental health screening agent. It will understand the mental health state of the user and help them find trustworthy resources to understand their feelings, as well as help them connect with a professional mental health care professional that fits their needs and preferences. Sana can also detect high-risk situations (like suicide ideation or abuse) and act acordingly, giving the user direct resources for inmediate crisis in the form of helplines.

How we built it

This project was built using AgentCore as the central element. I first designed the core capabilities of the agent and started to build my tools and MCP capabilities around that.

Challenges we ran into

The main challenge was time, since I came across the hackathon only 2 weeks from the finish date. There was also a lot of back and forth with Nova Act to get it to work correctly.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I am very proud of the capabilities of the project and the architecture. AgentCore is an extremely new service and it's been really interesting to build a sort of production-ready architecture. Also, I wanted to make an AI solution for mental health that does not look to replace the job of an actual health care professional, but it is still a useful tool for people to use, and I think I achieved that.

What we learned

I learned a lot about how to think ethically when using agents for sensitive topics, and it even cemented a lot of my knowledge regarding production level agentic workflows and things like observability and access control.

What's next for Sana

I would love to have more time to build a fuller application, with actual deployment pipelines and robust frontend capabilities, since right now the focus was completely on the agentic side. I think with more time (and credits), this could be an open source project that is always on and people can actually use.

Also, the current setup is very limited, only scoped to a few resources in English and US-based capabilities for therapist and helpline search. I would love to have the opportunity to expand this to be a worldwide thing.

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