Find and add high-meat cat food to a basket
Real-world thread: in Perplexity's Comet browser, the reviewer asked the assembled-in Assistant to find the cat food with the most meat in an online shop. The Assistant browsed the shop pages while the reviewer watched, with blue frames marking the pages it was reading. It located suitable options and added one to the basket.
- Agent or tool
- Perplexity Comet
- Topic
- Personal Assistant
- Reported on
- Blog
- Added
- 2026-10-15
Why it matters
This is the classic promise of AI agents: a helper that handles errands and reminders on your behalf. Real cases like this show how close that promise is today. It is one of 50 sightings filed under Personal Assistant on Agent Sightings (number 14 by interest), and one of 10 involving Perplexity Comet.
How you could try it
Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into Perplexity Comet or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.
Assistant mode: find and add high-meat cat food to a basket. Log every action, prefer reversible steps, and ask before emailing, paying, or deleting.
Tip: Start small: run it once on a low-stakes example, read what the agent did, and only then let it run on real work.
Source
Read the original first-hand account on Blog: https://cybernews.com/ai-tools/perplexity-comet-review/. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.
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