The pickers in AgX and many other modules are not “auto settings” but serve a specific purpose of extracting some values from a specific region (e.g. Black and White relative exposure).
I highly recommend spending some time watching Bruce Williams videos or taking a look at the tutorials over at darktable.info .
Dt is a rich toolbox of mighty tools. As a beginner it will be overwhelming so take your time learning a general approach and focusing on few core modules and going from there once you feel competent with those.