Let agents build recipe viewer URLs
Case study takeaway: the builder assembled a recipe viewer at keep.recipes where the recipe lives in the URL. They wrote a skill file and docs that teach agents how to construct those URLs. The builder reports it works pretty well, covering in permission-limited agents such as ChatGPT web.
- Agent or tool
- ChatGPT
- Topic
- Productivity
- Reported on
- Hacker News
- Added
- 2026-10-15
Why it matters
Small, repetitive tasks eat more of the week than anyone likes to admit. Cases like this show an agent taking a chore off someone's plate end to end, not just suggesting what to do. It is one of 201 sightings filed under Productivity on Agent Sightings (number 133 by interest), and one of 29 involving ChatGPT.
How you could try it
Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into ChatGPT or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.
Help me let agents build recipe viewer URLs. Break it into steps, show your work, and wait for confirmation before anything irreversible, paid, or outbound.
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 Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50009060. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.
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