Research purchases for delivered price and working coupons
Documented elsewhere: the poster runs this self-hosted on a home server with a Claude subscription. Claude Code orchestrates parallel subagents to check review sites and YouTube, read Reddit, analyze video transcripts and frames, find listings, and verify checkout; before showing the report, an audit step sends the agent back if key checks like Amazon or owner reviews are missing. It condenses the shopping research the poster used to do by hand into one report focused on delivered price, valid codes, merchant fit for Finland, and owner feedback.
- Agent or tool
- Custom agent
- Topic
- Research & Data
- Reported on
- Added
- 2026-10-15
Why it matters
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 8 by interest), and one of 182 involving Custom agent.
How you could try it
Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into your own agent or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.
Research brief: research purchases for delivered price and working coupons. 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.
Source
Read the original first-hand account on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1wukkk1/built_an_ai_agent_that_re…. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.