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I see two ways to do so:
So, as an example of #2. Let's say your conlang has the verb "lug" (to do), and here's part of its conjugation:
And your agent suffix is, dunno, -bor. Most languages would apply it into the base form and call it a day, so you'd get "lugbor"; you could instead do something like
I feel this would go well with an agglutinative language. Just make sure the distinction between adjective and noun is clear, otherwise your conspeakers will conflate the nominalising and adjectivising suffixes.