Research calendar guests and send a Slack briefing
Linked example of research calendar guests and send a Slack briefing. The agent is assembled in Zapier with a 6 AM daily schedule trigger and three tools: Google Calendar Find Event, Slack Send Channel Message, and the built-in Web Search.
Research is mostly gathering, cleaning and comparing. Handing that groundwork to an agent leaves the person with the part that needs judgment: deciding what the findings mean. It is one of 67 sightings filed under Research & Data on Agent Sightings (number 27 by interest), and one of 7 involving Zapier Agents.
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Research brief: research calendar guests and send a Slack briefing. Prefer primary sources, include links and confidence notes, and do not contact anyone.
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.
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