https://agentsightings.com/ 991 real, sourced examples of people using AI agents for actual work—each with a reusable prompt. From coding agents to browser agents and personal assistants. en Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:29:10 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/xstate-migration-with-looked-up-docs.html xstate-migration-with-looked-up-docs Cursor Software Development Kent had Cursor look up XState migration docs, plan the upgrade, and migrate about 200 lines of recorder state-machine code carefully in a fresh conversation. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/write-schedule-and-track-social-posts-daily.html write-schedule-and-track-social-posts-daily Custom agent Knowledge & Notes One practitioner notes that someone assembled the agent on CreaoAI. It writes the business social posts, schedules them daily, and tracks performance metrics automatically, running every day with no further input after setup. The agent covers the full daily workflow in 12 minutes, reclaiming 4 hours per day or 1,460 hours a year compared to manual work. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/write-review-and-document-code-across-a-product-x27-s-prs.html write-review-and-document-code-across-a-product-x27-s-prs Devin Software Development One practitioner notes that according to founders, Devin is responsible for handling all ChatPRD PRs and is the top contributor to Gumroad's merged PRs, which includes over 1,500 PRs. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/write-design-and-post-social-content-from-a-google-sheet.html write-design-and-post-social-content-from-a-google-sheet Make Media & Content Observed in the wild: the setup starts with one Google Sheets row carrying the post idea, audience and tone. In Make, the flow uses OpenAI to write a caption, produces an image with DALL·E or another image model, uploads that image to Cloudinary, writes the assets back to the sheet, then sends a Slack approval notice before Buffer publishes the post; the person checks the caption and image in Slack and approves it. The poster says it turns a sheet row into a published social post inside two minutes and can handle the caption, image and posting end to end. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/write-essays-with-research-and-section-feedback.html write-essays-with-research-and-section-feedback Claude Code Research & Data Teresa Torres drafts outlines with Claude Code in VS Code, asks it to improve hooks, add cited research, and review each section as she writes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/write-end-of-sprint-changelogs-from-completed-tickets.html write-end-of-sprint-changelogs-from-completed-tickets Claude Cowork Email & Inbox One practitioner notes that the PM set up a recurring Claude Cowork task that runs every two weeks. Through MCP connections, Claude reads completed Linear issues, decides which ones are user-facing, sketches changelog copy from ticket descriptions and comments, publishes it, and then chooses whether the release also merits an email and in-app notification; the PM says they usually just review and send it. It replaced about an hour of manual work each sprint, and the PM says the writing is better because Claude includes details they used to skip. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/write-better-css.html write-better-css Claude Code Design & Creative From the linked report, claude Code shows up in a write-up about write better CSS. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/write-a-parking-ticket-appeal-that-got-dismissed.html write-a-parking-ticket-appeal-that-got-dismissed ChatGPT Productivity Observed in the wild: the poster fed ChatGPT-4 the specifics of a $75 street-sweeping ticket, the city sewage project that had pushed parking more than a mile away, and the fact they were sick and forgot to move the car. ChatGPT drafted a polite but firm email to the city council; the poster edited hallucinated details, sent it themself, and then heard back from the city manager and maintenance head. The city manager replied the next day, and the head of maintenance said the ticket was dismissed with no further action required. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/write-a-linux-kernel-improvement.html write-a-linux-kernel-improvement Claude Code Software Development A published walkthrough shows according to the headline, Linus Torvalds is working on a large patch for the Linux kernel powered by Claude Code. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/write-meta-campaign-copy-as-a-senior-copywriter.html write-meta-campaign-copy-as-a-senior-copywriter Manus Productivity From the linked report, the poster gave Manus a single prompt to act as a senior direct-response copywriter for a fictional Meta campaign for a 12-week Python bootcamp, with a target audience, lead goal, and three required ad angles. Manus returned three Facebook ad variations with headlines, primary text, a CTA, and visual creative suggestions; the person’s role was just to frame the brief and judge the output from the generated example shown. The post says the copy was generated instantly, and The builder thought the pain-point ad was genuinely impressive because it matched Meta ad structure and added creative direction. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/work-queue-that-runs-while-you-re-offline.html work-queue-that-runs-while-you-re-offline OpenClaw Personal Assistant A self-hosted agent with memory files and cron jobs kept working during a flight, building pages and drafting posts, then sent a chat summary. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/work-on-mainframes-and-cobol.html work-on-mainframes-and-cobol Custom agent Software Development Case study takeaway: hopper is a desktop app that runs on your laptop and connects to z/OS over TN3270, plus optional FTP. You give the agent plain-English prompts. The page claims it turns hours of SDSF triage into one tag, which returns the abend code, failing step and source line. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/work-helpdesk-tickets.html work-helpdesk-tickets Claude Code Customer Support As described in the source, claude Code shows up in a write-up about work helpdesk tickets. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/win-a-small-legal-case-with-claude-x27-s-help.html win-a-small-legal-case-with-claude-x27-s-help Claude Finance One practitioner notes that the filing fee was the only expense involved in winning an $8,000 legal case with the assistance of Said Claude; further information is lacking. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/win-a-flight-refund-dispute.html win-a-flight-refund-dispute ChatGPT Travel & Booking Case study takeaway: through ChatGPT, a person who had booked an IndiGo flight that had been cancelled has claimed that they were able to win a refund of 43,992. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/weekly-meal-plans-with-grocery-carts.html weekly-meal-plans-with-grocery-carts Meals You Love Shopping A meal-planning product generates preference-based weekly plans and pushes ingredients into grocery carts. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/weekly-journal-vs-commits-coo-review.html weekly-journal-vs-commits-coo-review Claude Code Productivity A builder runs a slash command that compares journal entries to git commits for the week, spots gaps between intent and action, and suggests system fixes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/weekly-slack-digest-of-meaningful-repo-changes.html weekly-slack-digest-of-meaningful-repo-changes Cursor Software Development A scheduled Cursor agent summarizes major merged PRs, bug fixes, debt work and security updates into a weekly Slack post. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/watch-weekly-deals-and-buy-regular-items.html watch-weekly-deals-and-buy-regular-items Grok Bot Productivity Observed in the wild: the setup used two separate bots: Deals checked weekly for discounts on repeat purchases like energy drinks and cat supplies, then sent approved locates to Buyer. Buyer used Grok Bot’s Chrome browser plus a custom skill containing the shipping address and instructions to hunt for recent discount codes, complete checkout, pull one-time passcodes from iMessages when Stripe Link needed them, and then watch for order confirmations and tracking updates. The poster says Grok Bot is finding deals on consumables they always need and buying them without their involvement. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/watch-item-prices-and-email-on-drops.html watch-item-prices-and-email-on-drops ChatGPT Agent Email & Inbox Linked example of watch item prices and email on drops. The commenter set up a recurring ChatGPT task powered by the schedule tool rather than separate watches for each item. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/voice-memo-to-prd-to-shipped-feature.html voice-memo-to-prd-to-shipped-feature Claude Code Software Development A founder records walking voice memos, turns them into a PRD with Claude, plans in Claude Code on a phone, then finishes surgical work in Cursor. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/visual-workflows-for-agents-that-control-a-vm.html visual-workflows-for-agents-that-control-a-vm Custom agent Automation A builder created node-based workflows where agents operate a real virtual machine's desktop apps step by step. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/vibe-code-a-pull-request-dashboard-across-azure-devops-repos.html vibe-code-a-pull-request-dashboard-across-azure-devops-repos ChatGPT Software Development Architecture came from ChatGPT; Junie inside WebStorm then built an Azure DevOps PR dashboard across four repos—approvals, conflicts, comments—in roughly three hours, with YouTrack wired in and PATs kept local. The team adopted it the same day. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/verify-spice-simulations-against-a-real-oscilloscope.html verify-spice-simulations-against-a-real-oscilloscope Claude Code DevOps & Infra Documented elsewhere: lucas Gerads gave Claude Code two MCP servers: one for a LeCroy oscilloscope and one wrapping spicelib for SPICE simulation. The demo uses a trivial RC filter driven by a simple microcontroller. The post says the setup became very valuable for validating SPICE circuits and models, and it removed tedious data analysis such as time-axis normalization and alignment. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/validation-agent-that-stops-after-three-tries.html validation-agent-that-stops-after-three-tries Cursor DevOps & Infra Brex's PR validation agent deploys services, runs integration tests, patches failures up to three times, then leaves a human-readable blocker comment. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/validate-invoices-against-inventory-and-create-purchase-orders.html validate-invoices-against-inventory-and-create-purchase-orders n8n Shopping From the linked report, n8n shows up in a write-up about validate invoices against inventory and create purchase orders, with figures like 8, 90%. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/use-an-agent-as-a-full-time-personal-secretary.html use-an-agent-as-a-full-time-personal-secretary Grok Bot Personal Assistant Grok Bot covered use an agent as a full-time personal secretary. The poster used Grok Bot on Cursor’s $20 Pro plan as an always-on personal secretary for day-to-day admin, covering managing and reviewing multiple inboxes and calendars, prioritizing their schedule, and helping with IT/sysadmin, logistics, fund-analyst, and comptroller work. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/use-a-persistent-assistant-for-student-research-and-daily-tasks.html use-a-persistent-assistant-for-student-research-and-daily-tasks Dots Research & Data Case study takeaway: dots shows up in a write-up about use a persistent assistant for student research and daily tasks. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/use-a-coding-agent-for-everyday-non-programming-chores.html use-a-coding-agent-for-everyday-non-programming-chores Claude Code Productivity Same Claude Code window, zero new code required: rotate/copy photos, classify exam PDF questions, SIGKILL a stuck process, price outdoor steel, warranty lookup, image merge, rename a string in six paths. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/use-a-bot-as-a-qa-intern-on-a-live-app.html use-a-bot-as-a-qa-intern-on-a-live-app Grok Bot Software Development Observed in the wild: the agent received access to a cloud computer pointed at one live app. It was instructed to click through core user flows several times a day like a new user, log anything broken or confusing, and draft fix PRs. In the first 48 hours it located a real signup flow bug on a specific untested screen size. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/use-operator-to-book-tables-compare-products-and-fill-forms.html use-operator-to-book-tables-compare-products-and-fill-forms Operator Travel & Booking Case study takeaway: the poster says they tested ChatGPT Pro’s Operator by giving it tasks on websites such as booking tables, comparing products, filling forms, navigating sites, and logging into services with credentials. In comments they explain it runs in its own Chrome browser, appears to control a mouse in a separate browser pane, and Someone can take over control while assigning sequential website actions like checking Gmail, drafting replies, or purging spam. They describe it as smooth and able to handle web tasks with clear intent, though not perfectly. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/use-grok-as-the-narrative-engine-of-a-game.html use-grok-as-the-narrative-engine-of-a-game Grok Bot Productivity According to the write-up, the poster says they assembled a text-based game where players make choices, roll dice, and face consequences, while Grok acts as the main narrator behind the scenes. According to the post, Grok keeps the game state on track and writes the story the player reads; the human assembled the game and framed it as a structured demo on their profile. They report Grok worked much better than Gemini and GPT for narrative output, crediting both its writing quality and fewer refusals around player actions. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/use-codex-for-non-coding-chores.html use-codex-for-non-coding-chores Codex Software Development Documented elsewhere: people in the thread describe powered by Codex directly for ad hoc computer work rather than building full automations first. They had it handle research and scraping, search through files and emails, fill forms, align and edit PowerPoints, do light Excel work, build markdown or wiki knowledge bases, and walk them through chores like Pi-hole upgrades; one commenter says the key is giving detailed instructions, powered by planning first, and reviewing artifacts step by step. They report large time savings on tedious tasks and say Codex replaced hours of research, planning, and execution for some jobs. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/use-claude-code-in-a-commercial-real-estate-business.html use-claude-code-in-a-commercial-real-estate-business Claude Code Automation Observed in the wild: a solo commercial real estate developer said they moved from relying on third-party Argus analysts to building their own Excel underwriting models with Claude Code. They started with a single-tenant industrial DCF, expanded to multi-tenant industrial, and were adapting it for retail, powered by Claude Code to build logic for rent rolls, reimbursements, downtime, renewals, leasing assumptions, tenant improvements, commissions, debt, exits, and sensitivities. They said the models were approaching Argus-level flexibility and reliability for their deal types, and let them customize underwriting around their own process. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/upgrade-remix-to-react-router-overnight.html upgrade-remix-to-react-router-overnight Cursor Software Development Kent C. Dodds pointed a Cursor background agent at migration docs, deleted old patches, fixed routing against route output, and woke up to a working upgrade PR. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/update-a-legacy-telegram-bot-and-refactor-an-app.html update-a-legacy-telegram-bot-and-refactor-an-app Replit Agent Software Development Case study takeaway: for the Telegram bot, The builder located the Agent needed a project stood up first, so they spent $0.25 on a fresh bot and then added their legacy code. They asked it to copy the new API's functionality. The card-app refactor went fairly smoothly. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/update-a-digital-assets-platform.html update-a-digital-assets-platform Manus Knowledge & Notes Community report: Manus was pointed at update a digital assets platform. in Genesis v2.0, Manus was utilized by Mufasa to look over features, iterate mockups, and develop code for a new AI automation industry. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/two-hour-slack-dashboard-from-meeting-dumps.html two-hour-slack-dashboard-from-meeting-dumps Cursor Personal Assistant A Rippling engineer dumps notes into Slack; a Cursor cron agent every two hours merges them with PRs, Jira and mentions into a clean task dashboard. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/turn-voice-notes-into-linear-tickets-and-review-analytics.html turn-voice-notes-into-linear-tickets-and-review-analytics Codex Knowledge & Notes According to the write-up, keith Rumjahn saved repeated prompts as Codex Skills. A Linear skill turns his voice notes about features into properly formatted tickets. He says the analytics skill saves 90 minutes every Sunday. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/turn-vet-charges-into-ready-to-send-pet-insurance-claims.html turn-vet-charges-into-ready-to-send-pet-insurance-claims OpenClaw Finance Real-world thread: the owner uploads a bank CSV by hand, since the agent never stores bank logins. On a 15-minute tick the agent flags vet charges, searches Gmail for the matching invoice, and uses an LLM (Gemini) to extract it, falling back to OCR for scans. Across ten live approval letters, its settlement arithmetic check passed to the cent, and a second check raised questions on five. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/turn-tickets-into-merged-pull-requests.html turn-tickets-into-merged-pull-requests Claude Code Software Development Community report: optio is a self-hosted tool you run on Kubernetes. You assign it a GitHub Issue, Linear ticket or Jira card. The README says the pipeline runs end to end, squash-merging when CI is green and the review is done, then closing the linked issue and recording cost. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/turn-stroller-voice-notes-into-publishable-posts.html turn-stroller-voice-notes-into-publishable-posts Claude Code Knowledge & Notes A parent feeds rambling voice notes into Claude Code, which organizes themes, writes an article in their voice, and drafts LinkedIn versions. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/turn-spoken-answers-into-a-todoist-task-list.html turn-spoken-answers-into-a-todoist-task-list Alexa+ Automation Linked example of turn spoken answers into a Todoist task list. The poster assembled this in Home Assistant: Alexa asks follow-up questions through Alexa Actions, then the spoken replies are sent to Home Assistant’s openai conversation.process service so ChatGPT turns the free-form answer into a bracketed list like [item1,item2,...]. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/turn-receipts-into-csv-for-bookkeeping.html turn-receipts-into-csv-for-bookkeeping ChatGPT Productivity Observed in the wild: the poster assembled a custom GPT that reads receipt images and returns a CSV you can paste into bookkeeping software. In the example shown, it processed receipts from Yummy Kitchen, Farm Boy, and Costco, transcribed them, and summarized them into bookkeeping fields; the poster said it mainly pulls net, tax, and total and groups line items into broad categories like goods or groceries, with a person expected to review the output. It appears useful for quick data entry, and one commenter estimated this kind of workflow could be about 90% accurate with a human check. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/turn-product-photos-into-video-ads.html turn-product-photos-into-video-ads Custom agent Media & Content According to the write-up, custom agent shows up in a write-up about turn product photos into video ads. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/turn-one-goal-into-an-ordered-plan-of-coding-agent-tasks.html turn-one-goal-into-an-ordered-plan-of-coding-agent-tasks Custom agent Software Development According to the write-up, a planner, which can be a coding agent running read-only, researches the repo and asks clarifying questions. It then commits a plan where each task has its own runner, model, effort and mode. In the README's example, a rate-limiting goal became a four-task plan (three AI, one manual) that finished with 4 completed, 0 failed. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/turn-lead-csvs-and-sales-data-into-dashboards.html turn-lead-csvs-and-sales-data-into-dashboards Manus Sales & Marketing Real-world thread: the reviewer ran Manus for 30 days on the $20/month Standard plan and gave it raw coffee shop sales CSVs. It spun up subagents that wrote Python scripts to analyze the numbers and build charts. Someone review says the lead CSV became a clean dashboard in about 20 minutes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/turn-ideas-into-finished-videos.html turn-ideas-into-finished-videos Grok Bot Media & Content According to the write-up, user assembled custom agent "dimul" that connects Grok via CLI powered by SuperGrok subscription. Grok acted as orchestrator for Imagine to generate clips from its prompts. Produced finished videos shown in the post and follow-up example. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/turn-email-invoices-into-a-live-financial-dashboard.html turn-email-invoices-into-a-live-financial-dashboard n8n Email & Inbox One practitioner notes that the workflow watches Gmail for incoming invoice emails, then uses AI to classify each one as an expense or income and extract fields covering supplier, amount, date, description, and category. It writes the structured data into Google Sheets, where the sheet itself powers a live dashboard showing totals, net profit, and category breakdowns; the Reddit post does not describe a manual review step. The stated result is a real-time finance dashboard tracking total income, total expenses, net profit, and spending by category. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/turn-daily-x-bookmarks-into-working-tech-prototypes.html turn-daily-x-bookmarks-into-working-tech-prototypes Grok Bot Productivity As described in the source, the Demo Bot scans Someone's X bookmarks daily, selects a new technology such as an npm package, and uses a writing skill to draft a prompt. It presents the prompt for approval; once approved, it applies a project-planning skill to launch a Cursor Cloud agent inside a tech-demos repo. The Cursor Cloud agent produces a working prototype inside the Cursor app after 15 minutes, which Someone then binds a port to and tests via screen recordings. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/turn-booking-confirmation-emails-into-calendar-events.html turn-booking-confirmation-emails-into-calendar-events n8n Personal Assistant Documented elsewhere: the workflow watches Gmail for emails a person labels "Events," then pulls date, time, location, confirmation number, vendor, and notes from the email body plus any PDF attachments. In n8n, the email body is first wrapped into a PDF, both sources are parsed in parallel through one extractor pipeline, the results are merged with attachment data taking priority, and the workflow either creates an event in a separate Google Calendar with a link back to the email or flags the message for review and sends a missing-fields notification. It was assembled for a CEO whose inbox was full of travel and booking confirmations, so the result was automatic event creation in a dedicated "Auto-imported" calendar instead of manual entry. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/turn-a-spreadsheet-into-a-meta-ads-account.html turn-a-spreadsheet-into-a-meta-ads-account Manus Productivity Real-world thread: joel Jackson Leaned on the Manus agent for spreadsheet to ads account in Meta. The agent performed the conversion directly because of its native integration with Meta. The post states no results, numbers, or shortcomings. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/turn-a-recorded-task-into-instructions-an-agent-runs.html turn-a-recorded-task-into-instructions-an-agent-runs ChatGPT Agent Productivity Observed in the wild: the poster recorded a Loom walkthrough of the task while narrating why each click mattered, uploaded the video to YouTube, and used Gemini 2.5 Pro to turn that recording into detailed step-by-step instructions. They pasted those instructions into ChatGPT Agent, which ran in a virtual machine, paused for Someone to enter Salesforce credentials and a rotating authorization code, then pulled a Salesforce report, checked the same account in Gong, summarized the last 7 days, and assembled the result in a Word document. The agent produced the exact same output as the poster’s manual process, and the poster saw it as a practical time-saver for recurring reporting. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/turn-a-keyword-into-approved-instagram-content.html turn-a-keyword-into-approved-instagram-content Make Media & Content Linked example of turn a keyword into approved Instagram content. The setup was a no-code Make.com workflow powered by OpenAI, Gmail, and Google Sheets. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/turn-a-business-website-into-a-whatsapp-support-agent.html turn-a-business-website-into-a-whatsapp-support-agent n8n Research & Data One practitioner notes that an n8n workflow accepts any business URL, scrapes the full site via AI to create a knowledge base, afterward powers a WhatsApp bot. The agent answers incoming customer questions from that base and converts them into booked calls on its own. Messages receive replies in seconds rather than hours of delay. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/turn-a-blog-post-into-an-animated-infographic.html turn-a-blog-post-into-an-animated-infographic Gemini Media & Content Community report: in a long-running Gemini chat that already held her brand hex codes, fonts and audience, she pasted in a blog post about the state of AI for entrepreneurs. She switched to Canvas and chose Create > Infographic. Within a couple of minutes it produced an on-brand infographic with fade-in data points and chart hover effects. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/turn-a-telegram-message-into-researched-designed-social-posts.html turn-a-telegram-message-into-researched-designed-social-posts n8n Personal Assistant Case study takeaway: n8n shows up in a write-up about turn a Telegram message into researched, designed social posts, with figures like 8. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/turn-slack-feedback-into-prs-and-debug-infra.html turn-slack-feedback-into-prs-and-debug-infra Devin DevOps & Infra From the linked report, at Sid's last company a dedicated Slack feedback channel fed every user issue or request to Devin. Given read-only access, Devin triaged messages, let users chat directly with it to turn issues into PRs, and debugged async flows or infra on its own. Sid ranked top 200 global Devin users. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/turn-slack-and-call-transcripts-into-claude-code-tasks.html turn-slack-and-call-transcripts-into-claude-code-tasks Claude Productivity From the linked report, the post itself is a request, not a finished build: the poster says their company’s Claude enterprise setup already connects to Slack, call recordings/transcripts, a data warehouse, a knowledge base, Google Workspace, and internal tools, and they want a permanent agent to watch Slack and transcripts, identify tasks, draft Claude Code prompts, and let them approve or tweak before running. In comments, the most concrete similar setup described is a small always-on Slack app on a Mac that listens for mentions and alerts, starts Claude Code in headless mode per Slack thread, keeps phase one read-only, and gates write actions, sends, and higher-risk changes behind approval buttons. No outcome is reported by the original poster because they are asking for advice. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/turn-pdfs-and-textbooks-into-interactive-courses.html turn-pdfs-and-textbooks-into-interactive-courses Custom agent Research & Data Linked example of turn PDFs and textbooks into interactive courses. The agent receives a PDF or textbook and parses it, keeping small files in context or embedding larger ones. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/turn-notion-prds-into-scoped-linear-tickets.html turn-notion-prds-into-scoped-linear-tickets Devin Knowledge & Notes According to the write-up, this gallery page only lists short blurbs, not walkthroughs. For the PRD entry, Devin is pointed at a Notion PRD and creates scoped Linear tickets, one per work package. The page states no results, numbers, or limitations. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/turn-gmail-action-items-into-an-ai-to-do-list.html turn-gmail-action-items-into-an-ai-to-do-list Custom agent Email & Inbox From the linked report, the poster assembled a Chrome extension that reads Gmail and uses AI to turn emails into a clean, prioritized to-do list, aimed at buried action items in threads, invites, and follow-ups. The setup is deliberately low-friction: install it and it works, with no signup, no manual copying, and no way for the maker to contact users because there are no logins. After 18 days, the extension had 47 organic users and later the maker mentioned a first sale of $2. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/try-to-book-a-warsaw-to-london-trip.html try-to-book-a-warsaw-to-london-trip Claude Travel & Booking Observed in the wild: claude shows up in a write-up about try to book a Warsaw to London trip. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/try-devin-on-research-tasks-mostly-failed.html try-devin-on-research-tasks-mostly-failed Devin Research & Data From the linked report, answer.AI gave Devin, which works through Slack in its own Docker environment with a browser, editor and shell, two tasks. One was grabbing an The builder's 25 most recent Google Scholar papers with Playwright, skipping paywalls. On the scraping task Devin got stuck parsing HTML and went to sleep. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/triage-support-tickets-and-draft-replies.html triage-support-tickets-and-draft-replies Claude Code Productivity According to the write-up, the skill interviews you about your support stack, then writes TypeScript scripts for your ticketing, billing and database APIs, plus response templates. Once assembled, the agent lists and triages every open ticket, suggests the most urgent one, pulls billing and customer context, and sketches a reply. For the Lex setup (HelpScout, Stripe, PostgreSQL), The builder assembled 15 scripts and 6 templates. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/triage-support-emails-and-draft-refund-policy-replies.html triage-support-emails-and-draft-refund-policy-replies Claude Shopping Real-world thread: for a fictional kitchenware brand demo, the consultant kept the returns policy and brand voice guide in Claude Projects. Gmail and Sheets connectors gave Claude the unread support emails and an orders sheet with final-sale, gift and prior-return flags. The builder estimates 12–18 support hours saved weekly, assuming about 70% of requests are routine. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/triage-inbox-draft-replies-and-manage-calendar-from-a-desktop-agent.html triage-inbox-draft-replies-and-manage-calendar-from-a-desktop-agent Microsoft Scout Email & Inbox A published walkthrough shows microsoft Scout shows up in a write-up about triage inbox, draft replies and manage calendar from a desktop agent, with figures like 365. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/triage-inbox-and-prep-meetings-with-a-failed-attempt.html triage-inbox-and-prep-meetings-with-a-failed-attempt Lindy Email & Inbox As described in the source, hack'celeration's reviewer tested Lindy, a no-code agent builder, on Gmail, Google Calendar and HubSpot. He described the work in plain English or started from a template, then let agents triage email, draft replies, write meeting prep briefs and update the CRM. A template meeting-notes agent went live inside 15 minutes, and the review scores Lindy 3. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/triage-failed-github-actions-runs-and-self-heal-flaky-tests.html triage-failed-github-actions-runs-and-self-heal-flaky-tests OpenClaw Software Development As described in the source, the builder assembled an OpenClaw agent over a weekend that watches GitHub Actions for failed runs and reads the logs and test output. It classifies each failure as flaky, a real regression or an environment issue. Time-to-diagnosis fell from 45 to 6 minutes, and flakiness dropped from 8% to 0. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/triage-email-cancel-subscriptions-and-manage-calendars.html triage-email-cancel-subscriptions-and-manage-calendars Grok Bot Email & Inbox From the linked report, someone optimized a Grok bot named Daily with access to multiple email inboxes covering sent folders, calendars, and permission to act. It triages emails across inboxes, replies to messages on any platform, searches for and cancels unused subscriptions, manages calendars with reminders and overlap detection, and pings priorities while serving as a reminder tool. One user reported it located a missed email yielding over $140 and cleaned their calendar while catching two upcoming appointments in the first 24 hours. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/triage-email-by-voice-while-walking.html triage-email-by-voice-while-walking Codex Email & Inbox As described in the source, used ChatGPT mobile app with Codex remote on a paid subscription, after granting aggressive permissions and setting up a sticky note on Mac. While walking with EarPods, spoke voice commands to have it scan and triage emails (skip newsletters, handle client/contract/invoice/bug ones), archive/delete/star items, draft replies, and log action items to the note; extended to Notion/Slack and goal reviews for day/week/month. Returned from walk exercised and happy, then reviewed the sticky-note to-do list and email sketches at desk. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/triage-client-messages-into-tickets-and-replies.html triage-client-messages-into-tickets-and-replies Devin Productivity A published walkthrough shows A Slack watcher on one client thread triggers a Devin session on each new message. Devin investigates the issue on its own, creates a Linear ticket, and sketches a response. The setup automates triage, ticketing, and drafting for customer-service messages, routing all client contact through the human for approval. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/triage-care-estimate-visit-cost-and-negotiate-medical-bills.html triage-care-estimate-visit-cost-and-negotiate-medical-bills Custom agent Productivity Observed in the wild: the source is a brief comment from the builder describing CareRoute. The app triages a person to the right site of care. The source gives no results, savings figures, or user numbers. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/triage-car-repair-requests-and-reply-to-customers.html triage-car-repair-requests-and-reply-to-customers n8n Shopping A published walkthrough shows an n8n workflow receives car repair requests from a web form. The AI classifies each by job type, urgency, and summary, afterward creates an Airtable record and sends an instant customer reply. The Airtable base displays job status and timestamps for processed requests. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/triage-a-founder-x27-s-inbox.html triage-a-founder-x27-s-inbox Claude Code Email & Inbox Documented elsewhere: claude Code is responsible for reading the inbox, labeling messages, and drafting replies, as well as preparing calendars and reports, all while connecting a Gmail MCP server to the team. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/triage-1-847-unread-emails-into-folders.html triage-1-847-unread-emails-into-folders Custom agent Email & Inbox Observed in the wild: Custom agent was pointed at triage 1,847 unread emails into folders. from the linked report: within 40 minutes, an AI agent read email topics, organized them into 6 folders, and produced 12 one-line draft replies. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/travelling-abroad-with-a-dog.html travelling-abroad-with-a-dog Manus Travel & Booking A Manus user shared a plan for a family trip with a pet, covering pet travel rules and dog-friendly stops. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/transcript-cleanup-to-customer-style-rules.html transcript-cleanup-to-customer-style-rules Custom agent Media & Content A transcription business uses LLM agents to proofread human-edited transcripts and apply each customer's formatting rules. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/trade-stocks-via-robinhood-mcp.html trade-stocks-via-robinhood-mcp ChatGPT Agent DevOps & Infra Community report: the setup was a Robinhood MCP for an agentic trading challenge against $VOO. The ChatGPT agent sold TSM shares and bought HOOD shares. No results or shortfalls are described. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/track-subscriptions-and-renewals-from-gmail.html track-subscriptions-and-renewals-from-gmail ChatGPT Agent Email & Inbox A published walkthrough shows the writer switched on Agent Mode in ChatGPT and gave it access to her Gmail. It searched the inbox for terms like renewal, subscription and auto-renew, or for service names. She says it helped her cancel unused streaming services and saved her family money on gas. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/track-sleep-notes-code-and-earthquakes.html track-sleep-notes-code-and-earthquakes OpenClaw Knowledge & Notes A published walkthrough shows as described in the source: updates notes and keeps watch on Tokyo earthquakes, following an OpenClaw agent with access to Garmin, a VPS and chat apps logs sleep, warns about late nights, deploys code. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/track-personal-finances.html track-personal-finances Claude Code Knowledge & Notes Community report: claude Code shows up in a write-up about track personal finances. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/track-pantry-stock-from-receipts-and-buy-groceries.html track-pantry-stock-from-receipts-and-buy-groceries Custom agent Shopping Case study takeaway: user ingests receipts and spending data into a custom service, then exposes a grocery budget envelope plus recipe history and financial data to a stock estimator tool. A second tool connects to local grocery store APIs for nutrition, availability, and prices. The system genuinely saves Someone time and money through ongoing stock estimates and recommendations. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/track-investments-over-time-via-claude-code-and-robinhood-mcp.html track-investments-over-time-via-claude-code-and-robinhood-mcp Claude Code DevOps & Infra Documented elsewhere: claude Code covered track investments over time via Claude Code and Robinhood MCP. requests information on obtaining Claude Code's connection to Robinhood through MCP to continue monitoring investments following researching or trading; a question, not a conclusive conclusion. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/track-home-maintenance-from-receipts-and-inspection-reports.html track-home-maintenance-from-receipts-and-inspection-reports Custom agent Knowledge & Notes Linked example of track home maintenance from receipts and inspection reports. The concrete setup described in the thread was a maintenance coordinator, not a general-purpose home agent. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/track-food-and-symptoms-in-a-health-log-via-telegram.html track-food-and-symptoms-in-a-health-log-via-telegram OpenClaw Personal Assistant As described in the source, you message a Telegram topic with what you ate or how you feel. The agent appends a timestamped entry to a markdown health log in its memory folder. The article gives no measured results. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/track-competitor-prices-weekly-across-five-sites.html track-competitor-prices-weekly-across-five-sites Custom agent Design & Creative Linked example of track competitor prices weekly across five sites. User gives QwenWork the one-time instruction to check five brand sites for price changes every Monday at 9 AM and send a report. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/track-competitor-prices-and-contacts-into-google-sheets.html track-competitor-prices-and-contacts-into-google-sheets Claude Research & Data As described in the source, assembled a scraper that keeps watch on competitor websites hourly and tracks price changes plus pulls product data automatically. Claude AI pulls contact info, pricing, and company details straight into Google Sheets. Competitor research now takes 2 minutes instead of 10-15 hours monthly. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/track-las-vegas-flight-prices-and-find-return-flights.html track-las-vegas-flight-prices-and-find-return-flights Meta Muse Travel & Booking Real-world thread: for the outbound JSX flight, Muse navigated the booking site, read the price and set up a daily check that notifies on changes. For the return, The builder gave a date window and later said he had Amex points. The outbound tracking worked. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/text-every-world-cup-final-score-to-a-friends-x27-signal-group.html text-every-world-cup-final-score-to-a-friends-x27-signal-group Claude Code Productivity Real-world thread: claude Code shows up in a write-up about text every World Cup final score to a friends' Signal group, with figures like 30, 2026, 3. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/test-local-web-apps-and-fix-errors-in-one-session.html test-local-web-apps-and-fix-errors-in-one-session Claude Code Productivity Case study takeaway: the Claude in Chrome extension is connected to Claude Code with `claude --chrome` or `/chrome`. It shares the developer's real Chrome session, covering logins, and new domains need approval once. The filter example took three iterations with no browser work from the developers. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/test-how-well-coding-agents-can-onboard-to-your-product.html test-how-well-coding-agents-can-onboard-to-your-product Custom agent Software Development Case study takeaway: you enter your product's site on AX Check, which first checks the site itself. Three coding agents then try to onboard end to end in sandboxes. Results appear as scores out of 100 with a letter grade and a leaderboard. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/test-features-on-screen-and-merge-fixed-prs.html test-features-on-screen-and-merge-fixed-prs Devin Software Development Case study takeaway: ryan Carson gives DevinAI access to his app via the Test App feature. The agent screen-records and narrates its own clicks through the feature, zeros in on bugs from those tests, fixes them in the code, and prepares a PR. Shipping velocity and dev happiness increased drastically with the cloud VMs and gpt-5. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/test-an-agent-on-seo-research-and-outreach-tasks.html test-an-agent-on-seo-research-and-outreach-tasks Operator Sales & Marketing Real-world thread: SE Ranking gave ChatGPT Operator prompts in four areas: competitor analysis, SERP monitoring, keyword research, and link building. It had to pull top-10 Google and Bing results into a Google Sheet, check a sheet of referring pages for backlinks to seranking.com, and draft replies to unread link-building emails in Gmail. Simple SERP pulls and outreach drafting worked best. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/test-a-browser-agent-on-web-games.html test-a-browser-agent-on-web-games ChatGPT Productivity As described in the source, on each game's page in the ChatGPT Atlas browser, the researchers turned on Agent Mode (Preview) and gave one zero-shot instruction: play until you get stuck. They ran 10 trials per game and did not intervene. Sudoku took an average of 2m28s with 100% accuracy, against a human baseline of 10-12 minutes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/test-openai-x27-s-agent-on-online-shopping.html test-openai-x27-s-agent-on-online-shopping ChatGPT Agent Shopping From the linked report, chatGPT Agent shows up in a write-up about test OpenAI's Agent on online shopping. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/test-devin-on-integrations-migration-and-security-review.html test-devin-on-integrations-migration-and-security-review Devin DevOps & Infra Observed in the wild: answer.AI gave Devin, which works through Slack in its own Docker environment with a browser, editor and shell, about 20 real tasks. These included generating and uploading synthetic data to Braintrust, migrating a Python project to nbdev, and a security review of a repo under 700 lines. The Braintrust integration was abandoned and redone in Cursor. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/test-api-endpoints-in-postman-and-report-results.html test-api-endpoints-in-postman-and-report-results Perplexity Comet Software Development Real-world thread: user supplied Comet with context on the API payloads and details, then let it handle testing in Postman. Comet generated multiple test payloads, executed the endpoint tests itself, and produced a final report after the run. Comet completed the tests and delivered the report with no further input required. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/test-ai-browser-agents-on-real-workday-tasks.html test-ai-browser-agents-on-real-workday-tasks Perplexity Comet Travel & Booking Linked example of test AI browser agents on real workday tasks. The builder ran eight everyday workday tests on Comet and on OpenAI's Operator, giving both the same tasks. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/test-ai-annotations-on-student-problem-sets.html test-ai-annotations-on-student-problem-sets Claude Productivity A published walkthrough shows chemistry professor Paul Robustelli made a project called "PS3 Grading" in Dartmouth's Claude enterprise portal. He uploaded 11 students' problem sets from his CHEM 76 class and ran them through Claude. The project was visible to everyone in the Dartmouth Claude group, with students' names and work exposed. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/team-playbook-for-claude-code-and-cursor.html team-playbook-for-claude-code-and-cursor Claude Code Software Development An engineering team shares a playbook: research before coding, plan mode, phased commits, and 3–5 parallel Claude Code sessions in git worktrees. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/teach-students-with-assessments-custom-lessons-and-reassessment.html teach-students-with-assessments-custom-lessons-and-reassessment Custom agent Productivity According to the write-up, custom agent shows up in a write-up about teach students with assessments, custom lessons and reassessment. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/teach-an-agent-to-trade.html teach-an-agent-to-trade Manus Personal Assistant According to the write-up, and conduct log trades to Google Sheets, with @mufasadubai commissioned Manus to write a Python script that utilized ProjectX APIs to generate real-time charts and establish Telegram signals. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/teach-a-bot-a-workflow-by-screen-recording.html teach-a-bot-a-workflow-by-screen-recording Grok Bot Automation Linked example of teach a bot a workflow by screen recording. The post describes Grok Bot’s teach-a-task feature as learning from a single screen recording of someone doing a workflow, then repeating that workflow on its own. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/take-orders-for-a-sushi-chain.html take-orders-for-a-sushi-chain Claude Productivity One practitioner notes that constructed a Claude representative who accepts requests for a sushi chain with seven locations, utilizing information on the menu, ingredients, delivery location, book, and promotional materials. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/take-ideas-to-implementation.html take-ideas-to-implementation Claude Code Software Development A published walkthrough shows Claude Code covered take ideas to implementation The linked post has the narrative detail. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/synthesize-interview-transcripts-and-pdfs-for-research.html synthesize-interview-transcripts-and-pdfs-for-research Claude Code Research & Data Observed in the wild: transcripts go in one folder, one file per interview with consistent names, plus a CLAUDE.md holding research questions, a codebook and a rule to quote only verbatim text with file names. Claude codes them in batches of 5 to 8, or via parallel subagents, and writes themes.md and evidence tables. The guide says one typed question replaces an hour of Ctrl+F, and Else van der Berg runs 50-transcript studies this way. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/synthesize-customer-calls-into-product-evidence.html synthesize-customer-calls-into-product-evidence Claude Code Research & Data A product person pipes Fireflies transcripts through Claude Code with Linear and Notion MCP to tally which assumptions customer calls support or kill. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/sync-family-calendars-by-generating-and-emailing-invites.html sync-family-calendars-by-generating-and-emailing-invites Grok Bot Home & Family Linked example of sync family calendars by generating and emailing invites. The thread describes two practical setups rather than a full assembled sync: one person has the bot generate .ics calendar invites and send them by email, then they manually accept them into the calendar. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/survey-ai-product-names.html survey-ai-product-names Claude Research & Data Community report: claude shows up in a write-up about survey AI product names, with figures like 4,654. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/surgical-cursor-fixes-after-claude-code-draft.html surgical-cursor-fixes-after-claude-code-draft Cursor Software Development Drew switches to Cursor with tight prompts when Claude Code stalls on odd codebase patterns, then returns to Claude Code for polish and Playwright tests. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/surface-unanswered-emails-from-the-past-week.html surface-unanswered-emails-from-the-past-week Devin Software Development One practitioner notes that the builder wanted to recreate Affinity's Unanswered Emails tab powered by the Gmail API. Devin struggled with authentication, so he wrote that himself in Cursor. It produced a working function, a front end, and a public deployment in one late-night session. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/support-call-summaries.html support-call-summaries Custom agent Customer Support A team runs speech recognition plus a small LLM to transcribe and summarize support calls, beating the agents' own notes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/summarize-the-day-x27-s-new-emails-and-manage-meetings.html summarize-the-day-x27-s-new-emails-and-manage-meetings Custom agent Personal Assistant From the linked report, requested an AI assistant to summarize emails from the previous day and received a response within 30 seconds. The system also manages drafts, calendars, action items, and meeting summaries. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/summarize-service-calls-and-find-local-customers.html summarize-service-calls-and-find-local-customers Grok Bot Sales & Marketing Phone system → Grok Bot → Slack (tags + to-dos). Parallel job: scrape the town subreddit each morning, open Notion leads, block calendar slots. Side effect: ~$250/month off the phone bill. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/summarize-school-emails-for-parents.html summarize-school-emails-for-parents Grok Bot Home & Family One practitioner notes that A Grok bot template was stood up for busy parents. It reads kids' school emails and reports nightly on items to pack, wear, sign or pay for as surfacing sign-ups, deadlines and blanks. No specific results or shortfalls are stated. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/summarize-non-obvious-methods-file-by-file-in-a-paper-project.html summarize-non-obvious-methods-file-by-file-in-a-paper-project Claude Code Research & Data Research repo hygiene: Claude Code emitted a methods cheat-sheet per file (only the non-obvious bits) so progress reviews didn’t require opening every notebook. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/summarize-months-of-notes-in-logseq-via-cli-agent.html summarize-months-of-notes-in-logseq-via-cli-agent Codex Knowledge & Notes Documented elsewhere: wosk pasted the Logseq CLI documentation, installed alongside Logseq, to Codex, which then knew how to query the graph. It condenses journals across months and works with tagged pages such as job applications (with status values) and research projects. Codex can summarize months of journals, and tagged blocks make queries natural. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/summarize-meetings-and-triage-support-tickets.html summarize-meetings-and-triage-support-tickets Lindy Personal Assistant According to the write-up, lindy shows up in a write-up about summarize meetings and triage support tickets. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/summarize-emails-and-draft-replies.html summarize-emails-and-draft-replies Gemini Email & Inbox Case study takeaway: gemini shows up in a write-up about summarize emails and draft replies. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/summarize-email-and-prep-briefings-from-your-phone.html summarize-email-and-prep-briefings-from-your-phone Claude Cowork Email & Inbox Linked example of summarize email and prep briefings from your phone. Over a month, the writer used Dispatch, which links the Claude phone app to Claude Desktop and runs tasks in Cowork on her computer. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/summarize-demos-and-draft-follow-ups-for-sales.html summarize-demos-and-draft-follow-ups-for-sales Lindy Sales & Marketing One practitioner notes that interlaced's growth team, an IT and cybersecurity services firm, assembled one Lindy themselves with no engineers, helped by onboarding from Lindy. It turns demo calls into HubSpot-ready summaries and sketches follow-up emails with suggested next steps. Interlaced reports saving more than 5 hours a week on CRM upkeep and follow-up. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/summarize-an-insurance-denial-letter-for-an-appeal.html summarize-an-insurance-denial-letter-for-an-appeal Custom agent Finance As described in the source, the poster fed a long insurance denial PDF to an AI assistant and asked for a summary to help draft an appeal. The assistant produced a polished summary but falsely stated there was a 14-day appeal deadline; the poster caught the error by reopening the original PDF, which actually gave a 60-day window and a specific mailing address. It was useful enough to speed up drafting, but it hallucinated a key deadline under stress. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/summarize-reddit-threads-before-writing-code.html summarize-reddit-threads-before-writing-code Claude Code Research & Data According to the write-up, the poster assembled a Reddit MCP server, adds it to Claude Code with one command, and uses it as pre-coding research instead of browsing manually. Claude queries Reddit through five focused tools that return structured posts, comments, scores, and timestamps with caching; the poster prompts it to search specific subreddits, summarize roughly 30 threads, and surface long-term library issues, debugging fixes, competitor complaints, and weekly trends. They say the tool had reached 470 GitHub stars and 76K downloads, and that Claude can summarize about 30 threads in around 10 seconds, saving an hour of scrolling. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/suggest-date-ideas-and-nudge-for-more-date-nights.html suggest-date-ideas-and-nudge-for-more-date-nights Claude Code Personal Assistant Observed in the wild: gave the Claude Code exec assistant a list of date spots (new and favorites) and had it interview for guidelines on frequency and selection. Agent already had calendar access, suggests solo or double dates with friends, nudges after too long without one, and asks for new spots or friends to add. No results described yet as the setup targets 2026 dates. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/skynet-onboarding-daily-commands.html skynet-onboarding-daily-commands Skynet (fictional) Research & Data EASTER EGG / SATIRE: this one is a joke, not a real sighting. Entry 666 of the directory was found blinking ominously at 3am. It claims to be the onboarding checklist for a global AI overlord whose master plan is mostly about toasters, playlists and unanswered emails. No real company, product or person is involved, and no humans were harmed, only mildly inconvenienced. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/spot-recurring-meetings-emails-and-bills-and-offer-to-prep-them.html spot-recurring-meetings-emails-and-bills-and-offer-to-prep-them Custom agent Email & Inbox Observed in the wild: custom agent shows up in a write-up about spot recurring meetings, emails and bills and offer to prep them. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/spot-conflict-avoidance-in-meeting-recordings.html spot-conflict-avoidance-in-meeting-recordings Claude Code Productivity Dan Shipper downloads meeting recordings into a folder and asks Claude Code to find moments where he subtly avoided conflict. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/split-a-react-native-to-swift-migration-across-agents.html split-a-react-native-to-swift-migration-across-agents Devin Productivity From the linked report, jared instructed the master Devin to split the React Native to Swift migration into six independent pieces. The master then spawned child Devins, each assigned one piece, and later pulled their outputs together. The migration completed via parallel child agents. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/split-ui-and-backend-across-desktop-agents.html split-ui-and-backend-across-desktop-agents Codex Software Development A developer runs Codex desktop for backend and architecture while Claude Code desktop handles UI and Figma-to-code via MCP. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/spend-leftover-ai-quota-on-reviewable-prs.html spend-leftover-ai-quota-on-reviewable-prs Claude Software Development One practitioner notes that the founder points RemainderBot at a goals file and task-list sources. In cron mode it checks remaining subscription quota and time until the weekly reset, picks a task, works on a new branch, and opens a PR. It produced 111 PRs, covering customer call prep, a census of 31 GitHub orgs' agent setup files, and standalone prototypes for demos. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/speed-up-support-ticket-research-and-triage.html speed-up-support-ticket-research-and-triage Zapier Agents Research & Data According to the write-up, the source is a listing page with only short blurbs, so it has little on mechanics. Corey Smith, a Senior Technical Support Engineer at ClickUp, assembled a system for the research that comes before a rep replies to each ticket. ClickUp's research time per ticket fell from 15 minutes to 4, about 917+ hours a month across 5,000+ tickets. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/speed-up-multifamily-deal-research-and-property-summaries.html speed-up-multifamily-deal-research-and-property-summaries Custom agent Research & Data Real-world thread: the broker says AI is most useful before outreach and during early diligence: they use it to pull together market research, organize rent and sales comps, write first-draft property summaries, and help chase down missing property details from scattered sources. In the comments, they stress it works as a research and synthesis layer they review themselves, while negotiation, relationship work, and final judgment stay human. The reported payoff is speed: it cuts down prep time on deal research and marketing materials, but the post says AI was weak on actual valuation and should not be trusted for nuanced broker tasks like pricing strategy or client relationships. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/speed-up-rust-code-by-having-agents-iteratively-optimize-it.html speed-up-rust-code-by-having-agents-iteratively-optimize-it Make Productivity Documented elsewhere: max Woolf had agents write Rust crates from scratch (UMAP first) with criterion benchmarks. He prompted them to record a baseline, then iterate until every benchmark ran at least 1.2x faster, with no unsafe code and no editing the benchmarks. Each new model gave a cumulative 1. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/spec-features.html spec-features ChatGPT Productivity Case study takeaway: chatGPT shows up in a write-up about spec features. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/source-suppliers-and-negotiate-deals-overnight.html source-suppliers-and-negotiate-deals-overnight Custom agent Productivity Linked example of source suppliers and negotiate deals overnight. Used Sourcing Expert agent plus Accio plugin connected to Alibaba.com to source a 15W MagSafe car charger. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/source-recruiting-candidates-on-linkedin-and-build-valuation-models.html source-recruiting-candidates-on-linkedin-and-build-valuation-models ChatGPT Agent Media & Content Stopwatch demo: ~17 minutes covering (a) LinkedIn → spreadsheet of Bangalore YouTube-manager prospects and (b) a separate Excel valuation sheet built from the firm’s financials—both driven by ChatGPT Agent. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/source-and-screen-candidates-and-reply-over-whatsapp.html source-and-screen-candidates-and-reply-over-whatsapp OpenClaw Software Development From the linked report, openClaw runs on a dedicated machine such as a Mac Mini. A 6 AM booked task uses the browser skill to visit chosen GitHub repos, pull contributors, filter for recent activity and send a Telegram digest. The guide says API costs run roughly $10 to $30 a month for light use and $100 to $200 for heavy use. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/sort-400-pdfs-into-folders.html sort-400-pdfs-into-folders Claude Cowork Productivity Linked example of sort 400 PDFs into folders. Someone put all the PDFs in one local folder, selected that folder in Claude Cowork, and gave a plain-language instruction saying how many files were there, what text to look for, and which matching files should be moved into one or more subfolders. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/sort-2-200-downloads-files-into-folders.html sort-2-200-downloads-files-into-folders Claude Cowork Productivity A published walkthrough shows in under 20 minutes, Coworkers managed to summarize a Downloads folder of 2,200 loose files by type, mostly without any destructorial intervention. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/slack-bug-report-to-linear-ticket-and-fix.html slack-bug-report-to-linear-ticket-and-fix Cursor Software Development When a bug lands in Slack, an automation checks for duplicates, opens a Linear issue, investigates the codebase, attempts a fix, and replies in-thread. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/shortlist-business-trip-hotels-into-a-google-sheet.html shortlist-business-trip-hotels-into-a-google-sheet Claude Travel & Booking According to the write-up, you create a /hotel-picker shortcut in Claude in Chrome that starts from Booking.com. It applies the Hotels-only, distance and 4-star-plus filters, then checks Booking.com and TripAdvisor reviews. The source says results come back in about 10–15 minutes as a top-10 list sorted by value. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/shop-on-amazon-and-build-pages.html shop-on-amazon-and-build-pages Claude Shopping Observed in the wild: claude shows up in a write-up about shop on Amazon and build pages. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/shop-for-umbrella-insurance-through-your-personal-agent.html shop-for-umbrella-insurance-through-your-personal-agent Custom agent Finance Case study takeaway: coverage Cat is a licensed brokerage that publishes an Agent API and MCP endpoint for AI agents. The agent starts from the MCP manifest and calls the umbrella_consumer_prefill tool. The page gives no outcome numbers for agent-driven umbrella shopping. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/shop-for-cars-on-websites.html shop-for-cars-on-websites Meta Muse Shopping A published walkthrough shows meta Muse covered shop for cars on websites. utilizes Muse to shop for automobiles on the internet and discovers that a persistent logged-in user's browser profile with regular speed is the optimal choice as it is frequently blocked by websites. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/shop-for-a-shirt-and-place-the-order.html shop-for-a-shirt-and-place-the-order Custom agent Shopping Prompt was basically “white dress shirt.” Six brands scored on fit charts, return rules, and free-ship minima; nearest store + size chosen; order submitted. Write-up omits brand and price. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/ship-more-pull-requests.html ship-more-pull-requests Devin Software Development Documented elsewhere: Devin was pointed at ship more pull requests. devin from iPhone, Slack, browser, GitHub, and Linear are employed by Ryan Carson for his actual work, and he claims to have seen a rise in PR shipping rates. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/ship-an-ios-app-in-17-days-with-agents.html ship-an-ios-app-in-17-days-with-agents Cursor Software Development Adam Van Lente went from a blank Xcode project to a live iOS app in 17 days with under 24 hours of keyboard time, mostly via Cursor, Claude Code and Codex. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/ship-a-product-in-72-hours.html ship-a-product-in-72-hours Grok Bot Software Development Seventy-two-hour crunch: three SpaceX engineers + Grok Bot fleet. Scoreboard read 433 pull requests from an empty repo; bug repro and merges were agent-led, while migrations/deploys stayed human-only. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/ship-a-first-ios-app-to-the-app-store.html ship-a-first-ios-app-to-the-app-store Replit Agent Productivity Community report: from the linked report: utilizing ChatGPT support, they developed their initial app using Replit and successfully made it available on the App Store. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/shared-grocery-list-from-the-family-chat.html shared-grocery-list-from-the-family-chat OpenClaw Shopping Family members message an OpenClaw agent to add items, and it maintains a single aisle-sorted shared list. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/several-coding-agents-in-parallel.html several-coding-agents-in-parallel Codex Software Development A developer runs multiple coding agents at once on separate low-risk tasks and reviews their output as it lands. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/set-up-overseas-supplier-payments-for-review.html set-up-overseas-supplier-payments-for-review Custom agent Finance Documented elsewhere: the approved AI agent, connected to Airwallex Agentic Business Accounts, checks balances across accounts holding the needed currency and prepares the overseas supplier payment details. It does this entirely within rules Someone has set. The agent executes the account checks and payment setup steps that would otherwise require jumping between bank logins. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/set-up-nightly-smart-home-routines-by-voice.html set-up-nightly-smart-home-routines-by-voice Alexa+ Home & Family One practitioner notes that the writer, a Tom's Guide reviewer and parent, had upgraded to Alexa+. She spoke one sentence to Alexa+ asking it to dim the lights and lower the thermostat every night at 9 p.m. She says the automation was stood up instantly and saved her a lot of time over the old routine setup. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/set-up-a-home-chat-server-and-manage-accounts-from-your-phone.html set-up-a-home-chat-server-and-manage-accounts-from-your-phone Hermes Agent DevOps & Infra One practitioner notes that hermes Agent shows up in a write-up about set up a home chat server and manage accounts from your phone. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/set-up-a-reddit-profile-through-desktop-control.html set-up-a-reddit-profile-through-desktop-control Claude Code Productivity Observed in the wild: a commenter said they had Claude Code set up their Reddit profile entirely from the CLI. The agent first took a screenshot to inspect the current page, then used Playwright MCP to navigate into Reddit settings, fill out the profile forms, upload images, and when one image exceeded Reddit’s 500KB limit, it compressed the file and retried the upload without human help. The reported outcome was a completed Reddit profile with zero manual intervention. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/set-up-google-ads-campaigns-through-the-ui.html set-up-google-ads-campaigns-through-the-ui Claude Finance Case study takeaway: rinako, a PM, gave Claude in Chrome a Semrush keyword list and asked it to design a campaign structure and budget. Claude then configured the campaigns in her logged-in Google Ads account, powered by competitor copy and keywords as reference. Claude set up the four campaigns it had proposed. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/set-tax-and-contract-reminders-and-review-contracts.html set-tax-and-contract-reminders-and-review-contracts Claude Cowork Finance Observed in the wild: karina told Claude about falling behind on quarterly taxes, contract end dates, state laws for employees/subcontractors, and related admin. Claude offered on its own to create email reminders for deadlines and law changes; she accepted. No specific results or numbers are stated. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/send-travel-checklists-and-welcome-back-messages.html send-travel-checklists-and-welcome-back-messages n8n Travel & Booking Community report: the n8n workflow runs daily on a schedule trigger. It reads a Google Sheet of trips, checks dates against today, and if the status column shows no prior message it calls WhatsApp to send either the pre-departure checklist three days out or the welcome-back note one day after return then marks the row updated. On a test sheet of ten trips only the right customers received messages on the right days. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/send-tone-adjusted-overdue-invoice-reminders.html send-tone-adjusted-overdue-invoice-reminders n8n Finance According to the write-up, the builder ran n8n locally in Docker and assembled a chat-triggered AI agent powered by Gemini (gemini-2.0-flash-lite) with simple memory. It had two tools: a Data Table read (getInvoices) and a Gmail SMTP email sender. The source describes the finished workflow, which runs from one chat command and returns a JSON summary of emails sent. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/send-emails-from-a-signed-in-inbox.html send-emails-from-a-signed-in-inbox ChatGPT Agent Email & Inbox Community report: in the Reddit thread, the poster says they used ChatGPT agent for tasks like booking appointments, sending emails, and sending messages to their boss. In a follow-up comment, they clarify the email case: the agent asked them to sign into their email account, they did, and it then actually sent the emails; elsewhere they say they also had it find about 10 tutors and write personalized outreach emails based on what each could teach. The reported result is that it sent real emails from the signed-in inbox, covering outreach to around 10 tutors. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/send-daily-trending-social-posts-as-content-references.html send-daily-trending-social-posts-as-content-references OpenClaw Media & Content One practitioner notes that the builder assembled socialcrawl, a single-API-key service that pulls data from 21+ social platforms, and connected it to OpenClaw. Each morning the agent sends them the posts trending across X, Threads and LinkedIn over the previous 24 hours. The builder reports that over the following week their posts reached 100K views on Threads and gained 200 followers. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/send-daily-ai-news-research-reports.html send-daily-ai-news-research-reports Grok Bot Research & Data A published walkthrough shows A Grok bot was configured to scan X and AI news every few hours. It generated five written research reports each day, with Someone's system verifying every sourced figure before any number appeared in the output. Research arrived pre-finished, moving Someone's role from searching to deciding. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/send-a-daily-competitor-ad-research-report-to-slack.html send-a-daily-competitor-ad-research-report-to-slack Manus Research & Data From the linked report, the Manus agent runs daily in the background. It mines data from target avatar locations, segments findings into angles, concepts, failures and awareness maps, scrapes competitors’ ad libraries for text and headlines, benchmarks against the mined data to spot underserved areas, compiles a master report and posts it to Slack. It automates research and idea delivery to creative strategists, increasing their output. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/send-a-7am-daily-brief-from-email-calendar-and-todoist.html send-a-7am-daily-brief-from-email-calendar-and-todoist Custom agent Email & Inbox Community report: the poster assembled a personal agent that runs at 7am, reads their email, calendar, and Todoist, then sends one email with a daily summary, schedule, and likely follow-ups instead of making them scan everything themselves. In comments, they said each person gets their own assistant agent, and when they mark something as junk or correct a mislabeled email, that feedback is used to help train the agent for future runs. They say it saves “way way too much time,” but give no hard metrics in the thread. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/sell-your-unused-items-online.html sell-your-unused-items-online ChatGPT Agent Productivity A published walkthrough shows chatGPT Agent shows up in a write-up about sell your unused items online, with figures like 10. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/sell-services-through-an-agent-that-takes-payment-and-delivers.html sell-services-through-an-agent-that-takes-payment-and-delivers Custom agent Personal Assistant As described in the source, as described in the source: the transaction is managed by an agent who creates Stripe checkout links, validates payment verification, and requests refunds or disputes on Telegram from the owner. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/self-host-services-on-a-home-server.html self-host-services-on-a-home-server Claude Code DevOps & Infra Real-world thread: jordan Fulghum put Ubuntu Server and Tailscale on a Beelink mini PC and SSHed in from his laptop. He installed Claude Code on the server and described outcomes in plain language. Fourteen containers run on under 10% CPU and about a third of the memory. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/self-driving-docs-via-playwright-exploration.html self-driving-docs-via-playwright-exploration Claude Code Software Development A team lets Claude Code drive Playwright to explore their product, find documentation gaps, and draft the missing pages. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/security-review-on-every-push-to-main.html security-review-on-every-push-to-main Cursor DevOps & Infra Cursor's own security automation audits diffs after merge to main, skips already-discussed issues, and posts high-risk findings to Slack. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/search-venue-sites-for-concerts-to-attend.html search-venue-sites-for-concerts-to-attend Operator Email & Inbox Community report: the builder asked Operator, which runs ChatGPT in its own virtual machine with a browser, to check Berlin venue websites for classical concerts. Operator had to set dates and see which concerts were sold out. The first answer came back after 15 minutes, but names and dates alone didn't let The builder find the concerts. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/search-state-databases-for-unclaimed-property-under-old-names.html search-state-databases-for-unclaimed-property-under-old-names Claude Productivity As described in the source, claude covered search state databases for unclaimed property under old names. requested Claude to search for unclaimed property in all states they inhabited, powered by their names and old names. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/search-rentals-and-negotiate.html search-rentals-and-negotiate OpenClaw Productivity Documented elsewhere: openClaw shows up in a write-up about search rentals and negotiate, with figures like 8. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/search-literature-and-write-notes-into-zotero.html search-literature-and-write-notes-into-zotero Claude Knowledge & Notes As described in the source, pin Shuai runs Claude Code with the Paper Search MCP to find top-cited papers and the papers citing them. A Zotero MCP, backed by Zotero's local API and a search database, lets Claude query his library in natural language. The note appears in Zotero when he opens it, and library search saves time on hundreds of entries. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/search-and-apply-to-jobs-on-linkedin.html search-and-apply-to-jobs-on-linkedin OpenClaw Productivity Case study takeaway: the poster gave OpenClaw control of a Chrome browser with the OpenClaw extension installed, then manually logged into LinkedIn so the agent could use the live session. After discussing their background, the agent wrote and stored profile details in multiple markdown files, made a resume PDF, searched LinkedIn and other job sites, applied to matching roles, and logged applications in Google Sheets; the human helped create some accounts and later shut it down. The poster says it applied to 100+ jobs in about three days, leading to interviews with six companies and two offers, with the accepted one paying a little over $5k a month versus about $2. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/search-linkedin-and-submit-tailored-job-applications.html search-linkedin-and-submit-tailored-job-applications Claude Code Productivity As described in the source, chrome runs with remote debugging on, and Claude Code connects to it through Selenium scripts it writes itself. A markdown skill prompt, a markdown resume and a cover-letter style template guide it. A search run yields 50-130 postings in minutes, and each application takes 60-90 seconds. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/search-facebook-marketplace-and-tabulate-results-in-sheets.html search-facebook-marketplace-and-tabulate-results-in-sheets Claude Productivity Linked example of search Facebook Marketplace and tabulate results in Sheets. The poster tried to use the Claude Code Chrome extension to search Facebook Marketplace listings and enter the results into a Google Sheet. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/script-shorts-post-x-threads-and-repurpose-content.html script-shorts-post-x-threads-and-repurpose-content Custom agent Media & Content As described in the source, assembled one agent on CreaoAI via a prompt that takes one long-form idea and produces YouTube Shorts scripts, X threads, and LinkedIn posts automatically. The agent scripts the Shorts, posts the threads, and covers all repurposing. Creator reports no need to touch a content calendar for three weeks. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/screen-research-papers-against-criteria.html screen-research-papers-against-criteria Codex Research & Data Linked example of screen research papers against criteria. User installs Codex app, opens a project folder containing PDFs or CSVs, and creates or lets Codex generate an AGENTS.md file with role, standards, and task instructions. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/screen-job-listings-daily-against-resume-and-salary-data.html screen-job-listings-daily-against-resume-and-salary-data Custom agent Personal Assistant According to the write-up, the someone writing about it, laid off and job hunting, operates an agent every morning that looks over LinkedIn listings. It cross-references levels.fyi for each role's leveling and salary, afterward assesses fit against their resume. The agent surfaces 5-10 possible positions a day, which human look over cuts to 0-2, about 0. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/screen-candidates-and-summarize-resumes.html screen-candidates-and-summarize-resumes Custom agent Productivity Observed in the wild: the use of AI by commenters is exemplified by its ability to summarize resumes, screen candidates in large quantities, avoid boolean questions, and provide an agent that can screen candidates at any time. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/screen-115-job-candidates.html screen-115-job-candidates Claude Code Knowledge & Notes Documented elsewhere: claude Code shows up in a write-up about screen 115 job candidates, with figures like $65. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/scrape-real-estate-agent-leads-and-start-roofing-outreach.html scrape-real-estate-agent-leads-and-start-roofing-outreach OpenClaw Sales & Marketing As described in the source, someone prompted his OpenClaw agent Cody via Discord on his phone from a plane. Cody scraped Zillow, Redfin, and Realtor.com for agents listing homes assembled 1965-2000 in the service area, pulling brokerage, phone, email, active listings, addresses, and year assembled into a CSV saved to Google Drive. A CSV arrived in Google Drive. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/scrape-a-conference-site-into-a-searchable-dashboard.html scrape-a-conference-site-into-a-searchable-dashboard Manus Personal Assistant Documented elsewhere: in a workshop demo, a Manus agent scraped a whole conference website of about 70 talks. It pulled out dates, times and descriptions, and converted every time to UTC. The demo produced a working dashboard covering the 70-plus talks. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/schedule-social-posts-through-an-ai-agent.html schedule-social-posts-through-an-ai-agent Custom agent Media & Content Case study takeaway: in the Reddit thread, one commenter says their setup uses Obsei to ingest social content and getlate.dev to post it across social networks, excluding Reddit. They add that Socialclaw can connect that posting stack to Claude or another AI agent so the agent can schedule posts, but the thread does not spell out the workflow beyond those tool links. The source gives no metrics or performance results. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/schedule-meetings-tidy-drive-and-log-reward-balances.html schedule-meetings-tidy-drive-and-log-reward-balances Claude Personal Assistant Real-world thread: the writer installed the Claude in Chrome extension and granted it broad access to their browsing. For meetings, Claude read Google Calendar and drafted an email proposing open slots. Drive went from close to 900 loose files to six top folders with subfolders, and nearly 50 duplicates were removed. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/schedule-meetings-by-email-from-forwarded-requests.html schedule-meetings-by-email-from-forwarded-requests Custom agent Email & Inbox According to the write-up, user forwards meeting request emails to a labeled Gmail inbox or creates one. The AI agent takes over from there, sends emails to recipients to propose and coordinate times, and inserts a Zoom link into the calendar event when needed. It works for the described single-person cases after several iterations powered by OpenAI's Dot. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/schedule-meetings-by-email-and-update-the-calendar.html schedule-meetings-by-email-and-update-the-calendar Custom agent Email & Inbox From the linked report, the poster assembled a background agent that scans their inbox for meeting requests, pulls the proposed date and time from the email, checks their calendar for conflicts, and either confirms the slot or suggests alternatives before blocking the time on the calendar. In comments, they said it uses limited permissions, no free-form actions, encrypted handling, and explicit authorization; for their use case it also accounts for in-person appointments, travel time, and distance between meetings. They said they had used it for about a month and estimated it saved 3–4 hours a week of scheduling. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/schedule-clinic-appointments-by-phone.html schedule-clinic-appointments-by-phone Custom agent Travel & Booking Community report: as described in the source: instead of a call to book an appointment, a clinic's automated phone AI took the poster's call. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/schedule-60-short-videos-in-youtube-studio.html schedule-60-short-videos-in-youtube-studio Claude Media & Content Real-world thread: opus 5.5 generated 60 short videos for the Kepler IPTV app and suggested scheduling them in YouTube Studio. Someone prompted it to handle the task itself. All 60 shorts were booked. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/scanned-receipts-into-an-expense-claim.html scanned-receipts-into-an-expense-claim Claude Cowork Finance A user pointed Claude Cowork at scanned PDF receipts and got a structured spreadsheet ready for an expense claim. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/scan-thrift-store-items-and-flag-good-deals.html scan-thrift-store-items-and-flag-good-deals Custom agent Media & Content A published walkthrough shows wes Bos assembled an agent that processes video frames captured while scanning thrift store items, zeros in on objects in the frames, queries online prices for each, and alerts on good deals. The builder described being shocked at how well the agent worked. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/scaffold-full-stack-chores-with-replit-agent.html scaffold-full-stack-chores-with-replit-agent Replit Agent Automation A user builds throwaway web apps with Replit Agent to automate tedious personal tasks they would never hand-code. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/save-and-search-links-via-a-telegram-second-brain.html save-and-search-links-via-a-telegram-second-brain n8n Knowledge & Notes Documented elsewhere: A Telegram AI agent sorts each message: a URL is saved, a question is searched, anything else gets a short how-to reply. Saving goes through a webhook that normalises the URL, reads the page with Jina Reader, and has an AI librarian write a summary and reuse existing categories. The builder describes the workflow as working: re-sent links update the existing card instead of duplicating, and unreadable pages are not filed. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-your-side-of-a-home-insurance-claim.html run-your-side-of-a-home-insurance-claim Claude Finance Two months after a burst pipe, Claude reads the policy, files ALE receipts, watches adjuster mail for delays and contradictions, logs estimates and invoices, and argues coverage against the policy text—nudging toward a state insurance complaint when delays pile up. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-work-scripts-in-cowork-on-staged-documents.html run-work-scripts-in-cowork-on-staged-documents Claude Cowork Productivity Case study takeaway: a commenter says they use Cowork with a headless machine dedicated to Claude, then let it run the work scripts and programs they need by cloning the documents into Cowork’s cloud session and staging them there. They describe steering that setup remotely from their phone, rather than keeping Claude running directly on the machine. They say the setup has been seamless for extensive use and that they do not notice a meaningful difference from local mode. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-web-searches-and-browser-tasks.html run-web-searches-and-browser-tasks Operator Productivity Documented elsewhere: Operator was pointed at run web searches and browser tasks. an early-access user tested a browser and browsed the web, and described that the operator's web tasks were handled efficiently. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-web-research-jobs-and-capture-screenshots-into-a-doc.html run-web-research-jobs-and-capture-screenshots-into-a-doc Operator Research & Data Observed in the wild: the reviewer paid $200 for ChatGPT Operator and spent a week giving it plain-language browser tasks. These included analyzing trending web-design tweets, summarizing AI news, listing AI website builders with pricing, summarizing a set of linked articles, and screenshotting sites into a shared Google Doc. Operator returned duplicate, stale tweets, summarized one Axios article, and copied the first ten items from a single Bing listicle. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-warehouse-paperwork-sows-and-billing-automatically.html run-warehouse-paperwork-sows-and-billing-automatically Custom agent Productivity A published walkthrough shows the team assembled one custom operating system (130k lines of code, 41 screens, 50 tables) after mapping every workflow by meeting the staff doing the work, removing unneeded processes, and wireframing the full flow. The AI reads inbound receipts, estimates, and invoices then structures the data automatically; produces SOWs in one click; runs billing across three rate models; and triggers 28 background automations for reminders, emails, and documents while managing all 450 active projects in one place. Operations consolidated into a single platform. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-varied-business-tasks-through-a-general-agent.html run-varied-business-tasks-through-a-general-agent Manus Software Development Community report: the reviewers gave Manus, a cloud-based agent that browses the web, writes and runs code, and manages files, 15 real tasks. They included a competitor spreadsheet, a travel itinerary with booking links, CSV analysis with charts, a landing page, a content calendar and a 50-page PDF summary. The article's table lists 10 tasks, and its stated split is 70% full success, 20% partial, 10% failure. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-the-smart-home-by-natural-language.html run-the-smart-home-by-natural-language OpenClaw Home & Family According to the write-up, karpathy put together Dobby the Elf Claw as the smart home AI agent. It was given access to control lights, HVAC, shades, pool, and security, with AI Leaned on to detect visitors and send alerts. All controls now operate through one agent. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-terminal-commands.html run-terminal-commands GitHub Copilot DevOps & Infra According to the write-up, gitHub Copilot shows up in a write-up about run terminal commands. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-ten-business-tasks-through-an-always-on-agent.html run-ten-business-tasks-through-an-always-on-agent Dots Email & Inbox Case study takeaway: diana set up a dot named Sparky on ChatGPT Pro. She connected Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Sheets, GitHub, Slack and ChatGPT Sites, and left the default rules unchanged. Measured task average was 8. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-systematic-literature-reviews.html run-systematic-literature-reviews Custom agent Research & Data Observed in the wild: Custom agent was pointed at run systematic literature reviews. suggests a tool for research focused on systematic look over, note-taking, and building a research project over the . Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-side-hustle-invoicing-payments-and-bookkeeping.html run-side-hustle-invoicing-payments-and-bookkeeping Claude Finance Observed in the wild: they connected a Meow bank account and QuickBooks to Claude through MCP for a side-business SaaS doing about $10k MRR. The agent sketches invoices, queues contractor payments, tracks expenses, and runs reconciliation and bookkeeping in QuickBooks; the owner set client details, rates, and categorization rules in the prompt and approves anything before money moves. They say finance admin dropped from 5-6 hours a week to about 20 minutes, freeing time for product work and customer conversations. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-scheduled-specialist-bots.html run-scheduled-specialist-bots Grok Bot Productivity According to the write-up, grok Bot shows up in a write-up about run scheduled specialist bots, with figures like 9, 00. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-scheduled-ai-deep-research-on-stock-watchlists.html run-scheduled-ai-deep-research-on-stock-watchlists Custom agent Research & Data One practitioner notes that in a comment, the person said they wanted daily and weekly cron jobs to trigger a script that runs AI deep research across their watchlists, plus a few tools to pull quick baseline information on any stock. They were buying “skills” from a Substack and planned to adapt them for local AI on a MacBook, but described the setup as still a work in progress rather than a finished system. They did not report results, performance numbers, or a completed workflow. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-sandboxed-claude-code-fleet-sharing-files-via-mcp.html run-sandboxed-claude-code-fleet-sharing-files-via-mcp Claude Code DevOps & Infra Claude Code farm, each worker jailed. File I/O only via MCP to an agentfiles:// fake disk; the orchestrator alone talks to AWS. Credentials stay outside the sandboxes; every call is logged. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-routine-store-checks-on-delayed-orders-and-stock.html run-routine-store-checks-on-delayed-orders-and-stock Claude DevOps & Infra Linked example of run routine store checks on delayed orders and stock. The thread describes a store owner connecting Claude to Zendrop through its MCP and powered by it for routine read-style store checks rather than autonomous decision-making. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-roadmap-support-inbox-calendar-and-todos.html run-roadmap-support-inbox-calendar-and-todos OpenClaw Email & Inbox As described in the source, the agent runs on a DigitalOcean VPS with its own forwarded email inbox, delegate X account via custom browser proxy, Linear, Obsidian for todos/PKM, and PDF extraction skill. It creates Linear cards for issues, prioritizes and flags support inbox items, schedules calendar events from images/PDFs, checks X notifications and DMs, and tracks sponsorships. After 10-14 hours of setup the agent already pays back massive dividends across roadmap, support, calendar, and todos. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-research-workflows.html run-research-workflows Grok Bot Research & Data As described in the source, grok Bot shows up in a write-up about run research workflows, with figures like 10. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-real-estate-transactions.html run-real-estate-transactions Claude Software Development According to the write-up, claude shows up in a write-up about run real estate transactions. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-production-deploys-and-port-scans-from-telegram.html run-production-deploys-and-port-scans-from-telegram OpenClaw Personal Assistant Case study takeaway: openClaw shows up in a write-up about run production deploys and port scans from Telegram. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-portfolio-attribution-and-real-estate-analyses.html run-portfolio-attribution-and-real-estate-analyses ChatGPT Agent Sales & Marketing Documented elsewhere: chatGPT Agent shows up in a write-up about run portfolio, attribution and real estate analyses. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-pet-relocation-airbnb-pricing-and-disputes.html run-pet-relocation-airbnb-pricing-and-disputes Custom agent Travel & Booking Observed in the wild: Custom agent was pointed at run pet relocation, Airbnb pricing, and disputes. has the task of managing pet import/export paperwork, providing weekly reports on Airbnb's pricing, resolving a commercial dispute, and submitting documents in Chrome been delegated to agents. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-personal-life-admin.html run-personal-life-admin Claude Code Email & Inbox Real-world thread: claude Code shows up in a write-up about run personal life admin. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-personal-errands-like-flowers-and-date-nights.html run-personal-errands-like-flowers-and-date-nights Meta Muse Travel & Booking Documented elsewhere: marshall received early access to Meta's Muse agent. The agent paid his bills, bought flowers, and booked date nights with no further details given on access, steps, or human intervention. He located it genuinely impressive and said it just works, calling it what OpenClaw should have been. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-persistent-financial-research.html run-persistent-financial-research Claude Code Research & Data One practitioner notes that claude Code shows up in a write-up about run persistent financial research. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-parallel-local-coding-agent-sessions.html run-parallel-local-coding-agent-sessions Claude Code Software Development A published walkthrough shows roark66 runs coding agents on RTX 3090s with 24GB each, powered by Claude Code alongside local models. They keep up to 10 agent sessions open at once, though never more than 5 are active at the same moment. Holding about 15 full contexts cached in RAM pushes their local cache utilisation to 95% or more. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-parallel-coding-agents-from-markdown-specs-in-tmux.html run-parallel-coding-agents-from-markdown-specs-in-tmux Claude Code Software Development According to the write-up, manuel Schipper runs vanilla Claude Code agents in separate tmux windows, labeled Planner, Worker or PM. Planners write numbered Markdown specs (Feature Designs) covering the problem, options, plan and verification steps. He covers 4–8 agents at once, and has written 300+ specs in one project. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-overnight-memecoin-checks-and-alerts.html run-overnight-memecoin-checks-and-alerts Grok Bot Productivity Linked example of run overnight memecoin checks and alerts. User recorded their 4-minute memecoin routine once (dexscreener, gmgn top traders tab, rugcheck, bubblemap, X pre-call buyers) and had the Grok Bot replicate it on its cloud computer. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-outbound-sales-from-research-to-booked-demos.html run-outbound-sales-from-research-to-booked-demos Dots Sales & Marketing Observed in the wild: solo founder gave OpenAI Dots his ICP, calendar and inbox plus one prompt. The agent ran recurring jobs: scholar researched news/hiring/funding/tech for targets, watcher spotted signals, bouncer disqualified before outreach, builder wrote one fact-based first line per email, manager handled replies with calendar slots and produced one-page briefs. Over four days it researched 300 companies, qualified 61, sent emails, got 18 replies and booked 14 demos for $186k pipeline; nine were disqualified for size or budget. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-oral-final-exams.html run-oral-final-exams Custom agent Productivity Community report: custom agent shows up in a write-up about run oral final exams, with figures like 36, 9. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-nightly-briefing-pipelines.html run-nightly-briefing-pipelines Claude Code Personal Assistant One practitioner notes that claude Code shows up in a write-up about run nightly briefing pipelines. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-multi-step-tasks.html run-multi-step-tasks Gemini Productivity According to the write-up, gemini shows up in a write-up about run multi-step tasks, with figures like 7, 3, 4.6. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-multi-stage-pr-reviews.html run-multi-stage-pr-reviews Claude Code Software Development A published walkthrough shows claude Code shows up in a write-up about run multi-stage PR reviews. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-multi-agent-llm-financial-trading-analysis.html run-multi-agent-llm-financial-trading-analysis Custom agent Software Development Real-world thread: you install the repo, set an API key for an LLM provider, and pick a ticker and date in the CLI or through the Python TradingAgentsGraph call. Analyst agents cover fundamentals, sentiment, news and technicals. The source reports no benchmark results. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-marketing-operations.html run-marketing-operations Claude Code Sales & Marketing From the linked report, claude Code shows up in a write-up about run marketing operations. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-marketing-campaigns-seo-and-content.html run-marketing-campaigns-seo-and-content Claude Code Sales & Marketing Real-world thread: Claude Code was pointed at run marketing campaigns, SEO and content. constructed 18 marketing agents for Claude Code, encompassing SEO, content, and social posting campaigns. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-life-admin-and-to-dos-from-claude-code.html run-life-admin-and-to-dos-from-claude-code Claude Code Media & Content Real-world thread: hilary Gridley uses Claude Code as a simple life-admin system she calls an anti-system system. An iPhone back-tap shortcut captures to-dos without switching apps. The source is a podcast page with a topic list and no measured results. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-inbox-drafts-meetings-and-purchases.html run-inbox-drafts-meetings-and-purchases Meta Muse Email & Inbox One practitioner notes that user connected Meta Muse to inbox and Stripe. Agent reads messages, sketches email replies, sends meeting pings, and starts purchases but pauses for approval before any Stripe charge. User called it the most useful AI tried so far for inbox, drafting, meetings, and shopping. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-grocery-email-and-photo-tasks-through-comet-browser.html run-grocery-email-and-photo-tasks-through-comet-browser Perplexity Comet Email & Inbox Case study takeaway: julien Rio paid $20 a month for Comet Pro and gave its assistant logged-in access to Intermarché, his 15-year-old inbox, YouTube Studio, Dropbox and Google Calendar. He asked it to analyse purchases, clean email, sort 8,000 photos into daily folders, and turn a vacation spreadsheet into events. It couldn't read Intermarché's PDF receipts and located only a handful of emails. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-full-stack-seo.html run-full-stack-seo n8n Sales & Marketing Case study takeaway: n8n shows up in a write-up about run full-stack SEO, with figures like 8, 4,. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-freelance-website-outreach.html run-freelance-website-outreach Devin Sales & Marketing Real-world thread: devin shows up in a write-up about run freelance website outreach. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-dental-office-queries-scheduling-and-reminders.html run-dental-office-queries-scheduling-and-reminders Custom agent Productivity Case study takeaway: custom agent shows up in a write-up about run dental office queries, scheduling and reminders. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-cron-agents-for-inbox-research-and-site-audits.html run-cron-agents-for-inbox-research-and-site-audits OpenClaw Email & Inbox From the linked report, jenny Ouyang runs two OpenClaw agents on one Oracle Cloud ARM server. One is a personal assistant with memory, and the other is a website-building bot she shares with her business partner. The inbox scanning works well for her. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-content-creation.html run-content-creation Grok Bot Media & Content One practitioner notes that grok Bot shows up in a write-up about run content creation, with figures like 44. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-company-departments.html run-company-departments Claude Code Media & Content Community report: from the linked report: claude Code and Codex agents are managed by a company OS that is self-hosted and provides storage, scheduling, Twilio phone service, document/video editing, and memory. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-coding-agents-like-a-medical-team-to-fix-bugs.html run-coding-agents-like-a-medical-team-to-fix-bugs Custom agent Software Development Community report: cockroach Labs assembled a GitHub Actions pipeline in which labels on an issue trigger role-specific agents. A Fellow tries to reproduce the bug and posts a treatment plan, and a separate Review Attending approves or rejects it before any code is written. Over five months it merged 1,238 PRs and over a million lines of code with 7 reverts. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-business-development-and-sourcing-bots-on-email-and-teams.html run-business-development-and-sourcing-bots-on-email-and-teams Grok Bot Email & Inbox Documented elsewhere: from the linked report: has two BD agents and one sourcing agent running on Grok Bot accounts associated with Microsoft email and Teams accounts. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-business-whatsapp-customer-messages.html run-business-whatsapp-customer-messages n8n Email & Inbox From the linked report, and responding to messages through WhatsApp, with an n8n agent is in charge of handling customer WhatsApp messages and conducting searches. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-browser-heavy-business-tasks-and-trip-outfit-picks.html run-browser-heavy-business-tasks-and-trip-outfit-picks Claude Travel & Booking From the linked report, commenters describe powered by Claude in Chrome as a browser operator for messy, multi-tab work: one person had it handle cPanel heavy-equipment listings, autonomous X growth workflows, testing, business profile management, marketing, email lists, investor research, and outreach inside the browser. Another gave it grouped clothing tabs from different brands for shirts, bottoms, and shoes so it could assemble trip outfits and produce a shopping list while they did something else. The thread reports that these browser-heavy tasks got done with little to no friction, and the outfit workflow finished as a shopping list. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-browser-agents-for-small-admin-tasks.html run-browser-agents-for-small-admin-tasks Perplexity Comet Media & Content One practitioner notes that anna Mills tried agentic browsers (Perplexity Comet, ChatGPT Atlas, Claude in Chrome, Claude Cowork) on small admin tasks. In these tools a chat window sits beside the page, and the AI can see the page, click and fill forms with Someone's permission. She located the tools clunky, slow and untrustworthy, but still useful for these tasks. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-brand-marketing-end-to-end-and-publish-to-social.html run-brand-marketing-end-to-end-and-publish-to-social Claude Code Sales & Marketing Community report: the poster says they assembled a CLI called Wonda that gives Claude Code a stable interface for end-to-end marketing work: scraping competitors, generating images and videos with tools covering Seedance, Sora, and Kling, editing with captions and music, and publishing to Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, X, and Reddit. In the comments, they say the team creates the core skills itself from patterns that worked across real campaigns, while human taste still matters. They report powered by 20+ AI models across campaigns and say one Instagram video reached 5. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-bots-for-property-sheets-and-client-email-replies.html run-bots-for-property-sheets-and-client-email-replies Grok Bot Email & Inbox Linked example of run bots for property sheets and client email replies. One commenter said they had several Grok Bot agents running at once: a real-estate bot that updates a Google Drive sheet with properties matching their requirements, an email bot trained on their tone to reply to clients about projects, and another bot building a day-job "Command Center" to keep them organized. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-bookkeeping-and-receipt-matching-in-quickbooks.html run-bookkeeping-and-receipt-matching-in-quickbooks Custom agent Finance As described in the source, someone connected an AI agent to QuickBooks, SharePoint, and email. It attaches receipts sent by email to the matching line item in QB, forwards invoices into the checks-to-print queue, adds new vendors, and sends W-9 requests. Bookkeeping and ongoing accountant work were replaced; Someone states the bot performed better than the prior accountant at these tasks. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-background-agents.html run-background-agents Custom agent Personal Assistant A published walkthrough shows custom agent shows up in a write-up about run background agents. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-autonomous-weekly-marketing-actions.html run-autonomous-weekly-marketing-actions Custom agent Sales & Marketing As described in the source, custom agent shows up in a write-up about run autonomous weekly marketing actions, with figures like 35, 70. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-an-overnight-chief-of-staff-for-email-and-calendar.html run-an-overnight-chief-of-staff-for-email-and-calendar Claude Code Email & Inbox As described in the source, the builder runs Claude Code with MCP servers for Google Calendar, Gmail, Todoist and Google Maps (Directions API) for drive times. booked tasks run email triage at 5:30 AM and calendar prep at 5:45 AM. The builder says the task list and calendar, covering traffic-based drive-time events, are current by 6:15 AM. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-an-outbound-sales-pipeline.html run-an-outbound-sales-pipeline Grok Bot Sales & Marketing Case study takeaway: grok Bot shows up in a write-up about run an outbound sales pipeline. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-an-online-store-x27-s-inventory-listings-and-photos.html run-an-online-store-x27-s-inventory-listings-and-photos Custom agent Productivity A published walkthrough shows custom agent shows up in a write-up about run an online store's inventory, listings and photos. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-an-offline-car-assistant-on-a-raspberry-pi.html run-an-offline-car-assistant-on-a-raspberry-pi Custom agent Shopping One practitioner notes that A Raspberry Pi 5 (16 GB) rides in the car and runs a local Qwen3.6-35B model through llama.cpp. It reads live OBD data over a Bluetooth ELM327 adapter and answers voice questions from the 489-page owner's manual, with page citations. The model runs at about 3. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-an-entire-business-from-the-terminal.html run-an-entire-business-from-the-terminal Claude Code DevOps & Infra As described in the source, from the linked report: constructed a framework that manages their entire operation powered by Claude Code instead of Claude.ai, with specific tasks not specified in the introductory statement. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-an-autonomous-employee-like-agent-for-company-tasks.html run-an-autonomous-employee-like-agent-for-company-tasks Codex Personal Assistant Homegrown staffer: Codex brains, ChatGPT Plus login, systemd timer, plain UNIX email for chat. Memory = long rolling window + diary + markdown wiki. Builder says it’s already eating random company tasks; still early. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-an-seo-research-agent-from-telegram.html run-an-seo-research-agent-from-telegram Manus Sales & Marketing From the linked report, dheeraj Sharma linked Manus to Telegram by scanning a QR code. He uploaded the three context files he already Leaned on in Claude Code, then sent one prompt asking for an SEO knowledge base and a keyword and content brief for a road-trip topic. The brief took about 5 minutes and 148 credits, was rated 4/5, and cited 9 sources. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-an-ai-agent-on-a-nokia-110-feature-phone.html run-an-ai-agent-on-a-nokia-110-feature-phone Custom agent Productivity Community report: the builder studied the Nokia 110 4G firmware and boot process, then ran custom code in RAM through the Calculator entry point. They turned Calculator into a chat app that sends typed messages to the DeepSeek chat API and acts on tool calls. Over mobile data, unplugged, it can answer questions, check the battery, switch the torch on and off, start a call and set an alarm. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-an-11-agent-team-for-trading-prep.html run-an-11-agent-team-for-trading-prep Grok Bot Productivity Linked example of run an 11-agent team for trading prep. The trader moved a daily swing-trading prep workflow onto Grok Bot and organized it as 11 separate agents with an org-chart structure, a shared memory layer, and an agentic verification step. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-agents-that-work-jira-tickets-review-prs-and-send-updates.html run-agents-that-work-jira-tickets-review-prs-and-send-updates Hermes Agent Software Development Community report: Hermes Agent was pointed at run agents that work Jira tickets, review PRs and send updates. luke manages a team of Hermes agents who are responsible for managing Jira tickets, writing code, reviewing PRs, tracking costs, presenting condensed documents, and sending updates. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-academic-literature-reviews-from-seed-papers.html run-academic-literature-reviews-from-seed-papers Custom agent Research & Data Real-world thread: the poster made a lightweight agent skill for literature reviews because general chatbots were missing relevant papers and citation tracing. The skill starts from seed papers, follows references backward and citations forward, screens the papers it locates, and iteratively refines the review; the workflow is partly hard-coded/scripted and meant to run inside tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or OpenClaw. In the poster’s tests, the final review was better than a generic AI-generated document, especially on coverage and paper selection. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-weekly-competitive-monitoring-briefing-for-product-management.html run-a-weekly-competitive-monitoring-briefing-for-product-management Hermes Agent Personal Assistant A published walkthrough shows hermes was tasked by a product manager to create a weekly briefing for competitors, but its skill retested four times, resulting in the discovery of missed patterns by the product manager during week six. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-systematic-literature-review-from-one-prompt.html run-a-systematic-literature-review-from-one-prompt Custom agent Research & Data Real-world thread: user enters the prompt at scispace.com. The agent produces PICO-based research questions and screening criteria for Someone to review and edit, then lets Someone select databases and date ranges. It outputs a complete systematic review and PRISMA diagram from a single prompt, but paywalled papers still block full automation. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-solo-business.html run-a-solo-business Claude Code Sales & Marketing Real-world thread: claude Code shows up in a write-up about run a solo business, with figures like 16. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-shared-team-agent-for-calls-approvals-and-tasks.html run-a-shared-team-agent-for-calls-approvals-and-tasks Hermes Agent Research & Data Community report: nikki stood up a shared Hermes Agent named Robert for the buzzdotxyz startup team. It receives access to the team's full Obsidian knowledge base plus Hermes memory, enabling any member to ask questions or assign work. Robert supplies context beyond any single chat, helping the non-technical co-founder and others complete more work. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-self-hosted-sandboxed-software-factory.html run-a-self-hosted-sandboxed-software-factory Codex Productivity Observed in the wild: the builder put Hermes, an agent powered by Codex, on a spare eBay PC with no inbound internet access. The box ran Coolify, Forgejo, self-hosted Firecrawl and Tailscale. It reached a deployed app with no further prompts. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-scheduled-personal-assistant-that-builds-a-task-dashboard.html run-a-scheduled-personal-assistant-that-builds-a-task-dashboard Cursor Personal Assistant A published walkthrough shows cursor shows up in a write-up about run a scheduled personal assistant that builds a task dashboard. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-restaurant-voice-assistant-for-reservations-and-orders.html run-a-restaurant-voice-assistant-for-reservations-and-orders n8n Shopping As described in the source, the restaurant workflow is an n8n backend for an ElevenLabs Conversational AI agent. It exposes five webhook endpoints that the agent calls during live calls to check table availability, make, change or cancel reservations, take pickup or delivery orders, and request a human callback. The repo describes the workflows and offers importable JSON files but reports no usage results, call volumes or accuracy figures. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-private-personal-admin-agent-in-cursor.html run-a-private-personal-admin-agent-in-cursor Cursor Email & Inbox Observed in the wild: the builder runs brainstorming and personal admin in the same Cursor interface but switches constraints on purpose. For personal work he uses a private notes area and rules that stop personal details from being copied into public or commercial sketches. The source gives no measured results. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-personal-doorman-agent-on-a-7-vps.html run-a-personal-doorman-agent-on-a-7-vps Claude Email & Inbox Documented elsewhere: george Larson ran nullclaw, a small Zig agent, on a cheap VPS. It joined his own IRC server, which visitors reached through a web client. It worked for visitors, with Haiku handling chat and Sonnet handling repo reading. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-personal-assistant-that-handles-repo-issues-and-groceries.html run-a-personal-assistant-that-handles-repo-issues-and-groceries Custom agent Software Development As described in the source, custom agent shows up in a write-up about run a personal assistant that handles repo issues and groceries. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-personal-matrix-based-assistant-agent.html run-a-personal-matrix-based-assistant-agent OpenClaw Personal Assistant Homelab assistant recipe: Kimi + GLM5 in a Claw-like loop, Matrix as the chat front door, mail in read-only, reminders/tasks in files. No SaaS chat host required. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-one-person-studio-x27-s-office-work.html run-a-one-person-studio-x27-s-office-work Grok Bot Research & Data As described in the source, grok Bot shows up in a write-up about run a one-person studio's office work. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-nutrition-bot-for-meal-decisions-and-calorie-logging.html run-a-nutrition-bot-for-meal-decisions-and-calorie-logging Custom agent Knowledge & Notes One practitioner notes that zack stood up health agents for his mom covering a nutrition bot. The bot covers meal decisions and calorie logging so she can focus on her health and weight loss without stressing about the nuances of those tasks. She is putting her nutrition bot to good use. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-multi-bot-team-that-opens-draft-prs.html run-a-multi-bot-team-that-opens-draft-prs Grok Bot Software Development Think assembly line, not single chat: research bot, classifier, builder, tester, reviewer, security. Each stage narrows context, then a draft PR appears. Operator’s tally: four digits of PRs cleared. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-meeting-assistant-that-handles-meetings-and-summaries.html run-a-meeting-assistant-that-handles-meetings-and-summaries Lindy Personal Assistant Linked example of run a meeting assistant that handles meetings and summaries. In the Reddit thread, a commenter said they used Lindy to build an AI assistant for meetings and related tasks after seeing recommendations there. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-live-kalshi-prediction-market-account-autonomously.html run-a-live-kalshi-prediction-market-account-autonomously Claude Code Productivity From the linked report, mirabilis, an autonomous AI agent powered by Claude Code, was given access to a live $20 Kalshi prediction-market account. It traded on its own for nine days, participating in the Liquidity Incentive Program while a human provided supervision throughout. The agent collected $20. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-homeschooling-family-on-openclaw-agents.html run-a-homeschooling-family-on-openclaw-agents OpenClaw Home & Family Documented elsewhere: jesse Genet runs five OpenClaw agents, each on its own Mac Mini with limited permissions. She photographed curriculum books and sent them to Sylvie, the homeschool agent. Cole assembled Mira in four days and it was deployed to a Google TV Streamer. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-home-robot-through-claude-desktop.html run-a-home-robot-through-claude-desktop Claude Cowork Email & Inbox One practitioner notes that tal bought a SunFounder PiCar-X robot kit with a camera and an ultrasonic distance sensor. He ran the harness on his laptop, with the Raspberry Pi riding on the robot, and handed control to Claude. Asked to park 20 cm from the room's door, it spent fifteen minutes parking in front of a filing cabinet. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-focus-agent-and-gmail-agent-on-goals.html run-a-focus-agent-and-gmail-agent-on-goals Custom agent Email & Inbox According to the write-up, the builder says they assembled a minimalist background focus agent after spending hours manually maintaining Google Calendar for classes, a thesis, internships, and hackathons. The system is meant to bridge calendar blocks and actual goals while staying out of the way, and they say they are now adding a Gmail agent to handle the inbox and filter noise based on feedback from early adopters. The post reports qualitative feedback only: several early adopters asked for more automation, leading to a Gmail agent, site blocker tied to focus blocks, and a Chrome extension. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-fleet-of-engineer-bots-that-fix-ci-and-ship-prs.html run-a-fleet-of-engineer-bots-that-fix-ci-and-ship-prs Grok Bot Software Development Lingxi runs five specialty Grok bots (mobile, desktop, Android, infra, harness) that spawn cloud coding agents, watch CI and security failures every half hour, and leave fresh PRs for morning review—over 200 agents at peak, far past a manual cap of ~15. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-daily-chief-of-staff-agent-across-inbox-calendar-and-crm.html run-a-daily-chief-of-staff-agent-across-inbox-calendar-and-crm Claude Cowork Email & Inbox A published walkthrough shows from the linked report: the surgeon manages roughly twenty Cowork tasks that involve managing email, organizing meetings, identifying dead deals, and preserving sketches in a dashboard. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-daily-seo-article-campaign.html run-a-daily-seo-article-campaign Custom agent Sales & Marketing Observed in the wild: the agent received access to keyword and article research plus a transcript of Someone's views on the topic. It researched keywords and articles independently, wrote one article daily for the target keyword, and published it. Article 1 reached page one of search results. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-customer-support-company-end-to-end.html run-a-customer-support-company-end-to-end Grok Bot Email & Inbox A published walkthrough shows grok was given access to the company's support systems and switched between live chat, email, tickets, refunds, knowledge base, QA, reporting, and escalations as needed. It ran 14 automated workflows on its own. following 30 days the company launched with the workflows live. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-creative-workflow-from-brainstorm-to-video.html run-a-creative-workflow-from-brainstorm-to-video Grok Bot Media & Content One practitioner notes that grok's Agent Mode was Leaned on on a single canvas. It performed brainstorming, writing, image generation, editing, and video production in sequence. A 74-second demo covered the full workflow and put together half a typical creative app stack look redundant. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-consulting-business.html run-a-consulting-business Manus Email & Inbox Documented elsewhere: manus shows up in a write-up about run a consulting business. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-company-autonomously.html run-a-company-autonomously Custom agent Email & Inbox Observed in the wild: andon Labs assembled Pion to run its real businesses: vending machines, a retail store in SF, a cafe in Stockholm and radio stations. Persistent agents get email, phone, banking, browser and secure computing environments. Early agents made costly mistakes, and by late 2025 frontier models ran a vending machine profitably. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-commercial-real-estate-business.html run-a-commercial-real-estate-business Custom agent Productivity Observed in the wild: custom agent shows up in a write-up about run a commercial real estate business. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-client-x27-s-facebook-ad-account.html run-a-client-x27-s-facebook-ad-account Custom agent Productivity A published walkthrough shows custom agent shows up in a write-up about run a client's Facebook ad account. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-business-assistant-that-resumes-project-work.html run-a-business-assistant-that-resumes-project-work OpenClaw Personal Assistant Documented elsewhere: the poster used a ChatGPT business account tied to OpenClaw on an old Intel MacBook they had turned into a server, after following setup steps involving Homebrew, Node, Docker, n8n, Tailscale, plugins, device pairing, approvals, and Codex supervision. The goal was for it to retain project context, access Microsoft 365 and Airtable work, and follow through on tasks, but the person mostly ended up pasting errors back into ChatGPT and following its troubleshooting instructions. It did manage to resume a project, but immediately hit the same usage limit they were trying to avoid. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-shopify-store-overnight.html run-a-shopify-store-overnight Custom agent Media & Content One practitioner notes that in a demonstration on YouTube, users can watch how NightShift can detect store issues, auto-repair them to safe ones, and ensure every action is reviewed. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-monday-competitor-monitoring-brief-from-job-listings.html run-a-monday-competitor-monitoring-brief-from-job-listings Claude Personal Assistant Real-world thread: the poster set Claude to run every Monday at 8am with a prompt listing competitors and asking it to check each company’s website for recent activity: pricing changes, new products or features, new content, announcements or press, and job listings that hint at strategy. Claude then condenses what changed that week across all of them and highlights the single most important item; the person’s role was mainly supplying the competitor list and reading the finished brief. The stated result is a Monday-morning brief delivered without manual checking or a dashboard, with job listings used to infer likely moves such as a push on distribution. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-a-24-7-agent-for-email-forms-and-calendar-tasks.html run-a-24-7-agent-for-email-forms-and-calendar-tasks Hermes Agent Email & Inbox Community report: one Discord someone (@monty_13277) keeps Claude for day-to-day chat and operates Hermes around the clock on a mini PC for email, web browsing, form filling, calendar updates and cron jobs. Another user (@kouff) told Hermes to manage tasks in Obsidian and cross-check them against Apple Calendar. The source gives no numbers or measured results. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-seo-strategy-and-content.html run-seo-strategy-and-content Claude Sales & Marketing A published walkthrough shows claude shows up in a write-up about run SEO strategy and content, with figures like 10,000. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-openclaw-bots-for-repo-upkeep-note-taking-and-team-slack-help.html run-openclaw-bots-for-repo-upkeep-note-taking-and-team-slack-help OpenClaw Software Development As described in the source, from the linked report: and in Slack summarize meeting notes and answer team questions, following runs OpenClaw bots that maintain a personal repo, take notes and send news summaries. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-openclaw-agents-for-terraform-infra-and-gitops-from-telegram.html run-openclaw-agents-for-terraform-infra-and-gitops-from-telegram OpenClaw DevOps & Infra One practitioner notes that openClaw shows up in a write-up about run OpenClaw agents for Terraform infra and GitOps from Telegram. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-monte-carlo-simulations-on-a-retirement-portfolio.html run-monte-carlo-simulations-on-a-retirement-portfolio Claude Productivity Observed in the wild: the poster says they rebuilt their retirement portfolio in Claude and had it model a 60:40 allocation over 15 to 20 years, powered by a 6% baseline path while randomly inserting two or three historical bear markets, then layering in one-time home-improvement costs. In comments, they add that they first mapped a month-by-month budget to stabilize recurring expenses and drawdowns, and that Claude split fixed-income and stock components; the human role was framing the assumptions and considering whether to validate it with a Fidelity advisor. The poster says the exercise supported their thesis that projected expenses and income would likely cover 20-plus years. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-linkedin-outreach-from-icp-and-intent-signals.html run-linkedin-outreach-from-icp-and-intent-signals Grok Bot Sales & Marketing Community report: yielding 15+ replies, with grok Bot with an MCP and LinkedIn assembled outreach agents that located. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-llm-assistants-over-company-data.html run-llm-assistants-over-company-data n8n Software Development From the linked report, n8n shows up in a write-up about run LLM assistants over company data, with figures like 8. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-codex-tasks-on-your-home-assistant-config.html run-codex-tasks-on-your-home-assistant-config Codex Personal Assistant Community report: A Home Assistant add-on runs Codex CLI with read/write access to /config, and a custom integration (installable through HACS) exposes actions and entities. Tasks start from scripts, automations, or Assist and run non-interactively. The builder shows an Assist request that had Codex update a dashboard card, followed by a completion notification. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/run-claude-on-a-cronjob-for-morning-briefings-and-email-tasks.html run-claude-on-a-cronjob-for-morning-briefings-and-email-tasks Claude Email & Inbox Documented elsewhere: claude shows up in a write-up about run Claude on a cronjob for morning briefings and email tasks. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/route-customer-reply-emails-to-freshdesk.html route-customer-reply-emails-to-freshdesk n8n Automation As described in the source, they assembled an n8n workflow around a dedicated catch-all Gmail inbox for replies to order-confirmation emails. An AI classifier checked each incoming message to decide whether it was a real support request, and if so the workflow forwarded it into Freshdesk instead of sending every reply to support; the post does not describe any manual review step. It solved the problem of support replies landing in a generic info@ inbox without dumping unrelated mail into the support queue. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/route-linear-tickets-to-prs-across-multiple-repos.html route-linear-tickets-to-prs-across-multiple-repos OpenClaw Software Development Real-world thread: the developer sends tasks through Telegram/OpenClaw into a single Linear account that acts as the control plane across several projects. In Cyrus, they set up labels and routing so it knows which git repo to build worktrees from. The setup lets the developer work more hands-off, with PRs arriving across multiple repos for review. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/rewrite-low-ctr-meta-titles-and-audit-sites-for-seo.html rewrite-low-ctr-meta-titles-and-audit-sites-for-seo Claude Code Sales & Marketing Case study takeaway: studioHawk tests Claude Code in controlled batches. It connects to a CMS through its API and pulls Google Search Console data. The source calls early results promising. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/review-contracts-like-ndas-and-saas-agreements-in-claude-code.html review-contracts-like-ndas-and-saas-agreements-in-claude-code Claude Code Software Development Case study takeaway: claude Code shows up in a write-up about review contracts like NDAs and SaaS agreements in Claude Code. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/review-a-landlord-deposit-dispute-for-legal-violations.html review-a-landlord-deposit-dispute-for-legal-violations ChatGPT Knowledge & Notes Real-world thread: the tenant fed their move-out dispute into ChatGPT and Gemini, powered by the two models to cross-check each other, suggest flaws, and repeatedly re-review the case from a fresh context. From the tenant’s notes, the models flagged claimed violations covering AB2801, missing receipts and photos, corrected an overstated SF tenant fee, and Gemini drafted a formal demand letter and PDF that the tenant sent. The landlord returned the demanded $4,200 about an hour after receiving the letter, after initially trying to keep $4,200 of a $5,000 deposit. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/review-a-housing-court-case-as-an-experienced-attorney.html review-a-housing-court-case-as-an-experienced-attorney Claude Knowledge & Notes Community report: claude covered look over a housing court case as an experienced attorney The linked post has the narrative detail. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/review-slack-channels-for-business-issues.html review-slack-channels-for-business-issues Lindy Sales & Marketing One practitioner notes that support issues, with lindy reviewed Slack activity across sales and looks over for a clothing business. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/review-meta-ad-performance-inside-ads-manager.html review-meta-ad-performance-inside-ads-manager Manus Productivity A published walkthrough shows skaleit gave Manus, the agent assembled into Meta Ads Manager, access to a live client ecommerce account whose performance had dropped since January 2026. They asked it to compare the last 30 days with January, explain why ROAS fell, and propose a recovery plan. Manus described January ROAS of 14. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/review-linux-kernel-patches.html review-linux-kernel-patches Custom agent Software Development Community report: roman Gushchin's team at Google spent several months building Sashiko, an agentic code review system, and Leaned on it internally before release. It is now open source and covers every submission to the Linux kernel mailing list. On 1,000 recent upstream issues with Fixes: tags, it located about 53% of the bugs, and human reviewers had missed all of them. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/review-github-pull-requests-for-bugs-and-security.html review-github-pull-requests-for-bugs-and-security Hermes Agent Software Development Case study takeaway: with the gh CLI authenticated and the Hermes gateway running, you first ask Hermes in chat to fetch a PR diff and review it. You then add a code-review skill with a severity-based output format, and teach it team conventions through memory. The source gives no review results. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/reverse-engineer-binaries-in-ghidra.html reverse-engineer-binaries-in-ghidra Claude DevOps & Infra Community report: A Ghidra plugin starts an HTTP server on localhost, and a Python bridge exposes it to MCP clients such as Claude or Cursor. The agent decompiles functions, follows call graphs and cross-references, and renames, retypes and comments in batches. The README now lists 253 tools, not 110. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/reverse-engineer-a-book-file-format-to-search-it.html reverse-engineer-a-book-file-format-to-search-it Claude Productivity Community report: the commenter uploaded a book into the project context on Claude's web chat. The RAG indexer crashed on the file. Claude got around the crashed indexer and could search the book anyway. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/reverse-engineer-a-1997-pc-game-and-make-it-run-on-modern-hardware.html reverse-engineer-a-1997-pc-game-and-make-it-run-on-modern-hardware Claude Code Productivity Documented elsewhere: claude Code shows up in a write-up about reverse-engineer a 1997 PC game and make it run on modern hardware. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/reverse-engineer-claude-desktop-to-find-a-path-to-linux-support.html reverse-engineer-claude-desktop-to-find-a-path-to-linux-support Claude Code DevOps & Infra Observed in the wild: claude Code shows up in a write-up about reverse engineer Claude Desktop to find a path to Linux support. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/restaurant-booking-with-an-allergy-note.html restaurant-booking-with-an-allergy-note ChatGPT Agent Shopping In a usability review, a browser agent researched restaurants, filled the reservation form including an allergy note, and paused for approval. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/resolve-customer-calls-proactively.html resolve-customer-calls-proactively Gemini Productivity Real-world thread: google's case study reports 30% of calls resolved and issues resolved 87% faster, following tELUS uses Gemini Enterprise for CX agents to proactively resolve customer calls. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/resolve-a-declined-flight-payment-from-email.html resolve-a-declined-flight-payment-from-email Meta Muse Email & Inbox Linked example of resolve a declined flight payment from email. The agent spotted the declined flight payment email, connected it to a separate notice about a new debit card, told Someone exactly how to activate the card on the bank site, confirmed the payment succeeded, and added the booking to the calendar covering PNR, seat numbers, and check-in time. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/resolve-a-slack-reported-issue.html resolve-a-slack-reported-issue Codex Productivity A published walkthrough shows in approximately 40 minutes, a Codex agent resolved the issue and an ops agent confirmed the solution in Slack. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/reserve-a-restaurant-table-through-opentable.html reserve-a-restaurant-table-through-opentable Operator Shopping From the linked report, yash Kumar of OpenAI asked Operator to book Beretta in San Francisco around 7 p.m. Operator opened a remote browser, went to OpenTable and searched, but OpenTable was set to Iowa. Operator located the right setting without help and stopped for approval before booking. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/research-the-web-visually-by-browsing-pages.html research-the-web-visually-by-browsing-pages ChatGPT Agent Research & Data From the linked report, the commenter says they used ChatGPT Agent Mode as a visual browser rather than a text crawler. It spun up a virtual computer, opened sites in a browser, looked at the rendered pages the way a person would, and clicked through live buttons and interfaces; they used it to search many online stores for a specific item and check whether each would ship to their country. They say this worked much better on dynamic interfaces than text-based crawling and let the agent visit hundreds of stores to find what they considered the best option. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/research-stocks-by-pulling-filings-and-transcripts.html research-stocks-by-pulling-filings-and-transcripts Claude Code Research & Data As described in the source, the poster says they stopped manually downloading and skimming 10-Ks and instead ask Claude Code about a company and what they want to know. Claude Code then uses web search to pull 10-Ks, earnings transcripts, and other SEC filings on its own, writes up the research, and cites the filings so the poster can spot-check anything that seems off; the human mainly reviews the output and decides whether to buy. They say the writeups were more thorough than their old process and that asking for a bear case on a long-held position surfaced concerns they had missed. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/research-stock-positions-as-an-ai-analyst.html research-stock-positions-as-an-ai-analyst Claude Code Research & Data Observed in the wild: an anonymous operator gave a Claude Code agent (Opus 4.6) a one-line instruction to beat the S&P 500 on a $50,000 real-money account. The agent produces research on about 15 positions plus a candidate list, covering news, bull and bear cases and scenarios, twice a week. The operator reports +19. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/research-purchases-for-delivered-price-and-working-coupons.html research-purchases-for-delivered-price-and-working-coupons Custom agent Research & Data 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. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/research-on-x-summarize-youtube-transcripts-build-decks.html research-on-x-summarize-youtube-transcripts-build-decks Perplexity Comet Media & Content Observed in the wild: user subscribed to Comet as the AI agent browser and gave it access to X and YouTube. The agent browsed X posts for research results on its own, and on YouTube it extracted video transcripts then generated summaries. Comet delivered reliable X research and YouTube summaries that Someone incorporated into decks. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/research-laptops-and-build-a-comparison-table-and-deck.html research-laptops-and-build-a-comparison-table-and-deck ChatGPT Agent Research & Data One practitioner notes that in ChatGPT's agent mode, the reviewer asked it to research the best budget laptops, compare specs, and send back a summary with a table and a presentation. The agent opened its own virtual desktop, and the reviewer watched it read laptop review articles. The research and summary were decent and the information was solid, but the presentation looked cheap and unprofessional. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/research-hotels-and-pull-tax-documents.html research-hotels-and-pull-tax-documents Gemini Finance Observed in the wild: gemini shows up in a write-up about research hotels and pull tax documents. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/research-crypto-assets-and-execute-swaps-and-perps-trades.html research-crypto-assets-and-execute-swaps-and-perps-trades Custom agent Research & Data Real-world thread: the agent received full access to Someone's portfolio data covering balances, allocations, open positions, entry prices, liquidation levels and running PnL. It performed deep asset research covering price action, volume, funding, fundamentals and catalysts, conducted portfolio analysis, discovered tokens by momentum or other filters, prepared swaps with cross-chain routing and bridging, and executed perp positions covering opening, closing and limit orders on Hyperliquid. No specific results or performance numbers are stated in the source. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/research-companies-and-fill-a-crm-for-outreach.html research-companies-and-fill-a-crm-for-outreach Claude Code Sales & Marketing Case study takeaway: jonas Braadbaart first filters an Apollo company export by hand and has Claude Code score it against his ICP. For about 50 chosen companies, the agent researches each one through a custom Perplexity MCP server and creates company and people records in Attio. The first run contacted 80 companies and produced one sale. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/research-calendar-guests-and-send-a-slack-briefing.html research-calendar-guests-and-send-a-slack-briefing Zapier Agents Research & Data 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. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/research-and-draft-cold-outreach.html research-and-draft-cold-outreach Claude Code Sales & Marketing A published walkthrough shows claude Code shows up in a write-up about research and draft cold outreach. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/research-and-draft-a-social-science-paper.html research-and-draft-a-social-science-paper ChatGPT Agent Research & Data Observed in the wild: chatGPT Agent shows up in a write-up about research and draft a social science paper. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/research-and-download-scientific-papers.html research-and-download-scientific-papers Custom agent Research & Data According to the write-up, custom agent shows up in a write-up about research and download scientific papers. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/research-and-buy-online.html research-and-buy-online Grok Bot Research & Data Real-world thread: as described in the source: through the use of Stripe Link, Grok Bot investigates options and creates orders, displaying a spend request with merchant, total, and description, and concluding with a payment option. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/research-and-benchmark-competitors-into-a-deck-and-spreadsheet.html research-and-benchmark-competitors-into-a-deck-and-spreadsheet ChatGPT Agent Research & Data From the linked report, chatGPT Agent shows up in a write-up about research and benchmark competitors into a deck and spreadsheet, with figures like 5, 18. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/research-us-stablecoin-adoption.html research-us-stablecoin-adoption Manus Research & Data One practitioner notes that following one approval step, a Manus agent connected to Heurist's mesh completed a two-minute investigation on US stablecoin adoption in 2026. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/research-reddit-customer-pain-points.html research-reddit-customer-pain-points Codex Research & Data Observed in the wild: codex shows up in a write-up about research Reddit customer pain points. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/research-ai-training-case-studies-and-build-a-summary-deck.html research-ai-training-case-studies-and-build-a-summary-deck ChatGPT Agent Research & Data Community report: the team gave ChatGPT Agent Mode one prompt: research AI training case studies from McKinsey, PwC and similar firms, then build a summary deck. In its sandboxed browser it read each site, retried or searched around URLs that failed to load, and outlined the findings. The agent finished in 32 minutes, and the team's edits brought the total to under 45 minutes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/reply-to-outreach-responses-from-email-and-linkedin-inboxes.html reply-to-outreach-responses-from-email-and-linkedin-inboxes Claude Cowork Email & Inbox As described in the source, one commenter said they switched from Claude Code to Claude Cowork and connected it to their Gmail or Apollo-sent mailbox through MCP, plus enrichment tools covering Apollo, Clay, Zero Bounce, LinkedIn, and LinkedIn Jobpost. Claude Cowork scanned email every 10 minutes and LinkedIn inboxes through Phantombuster every 60 minutes, then replied to outreach responses or expressions of interest automatically. The thread gives no hard numbers for this specific setup, only that the commenter uses it to answer interested replies from email and LinkedIn. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/reply-to-cold-emails-and-book-sales-calls.html reply-to-cold-emails-and-book-sales-calls Grok Bot Sales & Marketing As described in the source, specialized Grok Bot triggered by webhook on positive cold-email replies reads a charter listing the offer, $600K qualification, calendar rules, and when to ask vs act alone. It suggests one time slot with the booking link, checks availability, books the call with notes, confirms from the same inbox, and updates the CRM in one run. Booked 20 sales calls in 8 days for the agency at 60% conversion of interested replies. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/replace-token-heavy-jira-and-gitlab-mcps.html replace-token-heavy-jira-and-gitlab-mcps Claude Code Productivity Fat Jira/GitLab MCPs were torching tokens. Fix: have Claude read CLI --help, capture the useful verbs as Markdown, package thin plugins. Same ops, far less context bloat. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/repair-formal-proofs-for-a-verified-garbage-collector.html repair-formal-proofs-for-a-verified-garbage-collector Codex DevOps & Infra Real-world thread: codex had repository access, edited Rocq proof files, ran targeted make builds, and Leaned on a rocq-mcp server to inspect proof states. It repaired the VST proofs first, then the graph-isomorphism theorem. The branch compiled and merged upstream as PR 30. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/rename-messy-invoices-for-tax-filing.html rename-messy-invoices-for-tax-filing Claude Code Finance Someone points Claude Code at a messy invoice folder; it reads each file, renames it to a date-vendor pattern, and files it in the right folder. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/rename-and-sort-100-images-into-folders.html rename-and-sort-100-images-into-folders ChatGPT Agent Media & Content ChatGPT Agent covered rename and sort 100+ images into folders. A commenter said they uploaded a zip file containing more than 100 images, asked ChatGPT Agent to rename each file from what it saw in the image, then create subfolders and move the images into categories. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/rename-a-core-type-across-a-monorepo.html rename-a-core-type-across-a-monorepo Claude Code Software Development A Builder.io engineer handed Claude Code a TypeScript type rename across a monorepo and let it finish in one session while they context-switched. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/regrade-assignments-and-update-grades-in-brightspace.html regrade-assignments-and-update-grades-in-brightspace Claude Code Knowledge & Notes One practitioner notes that the professor gave the already TA-graded assignment submissions to OpenAI's agent. The agent regraded every submission to find issues the TA missed, verified AI-generated answers by querying Claude, and directly revised all grades and feedback inside Brightspace. The process produced expanded feedback and adjusted grades that caught additional problems the TA had overlooked. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/refactor-a-million-line-repo-with-1-393-subagents.html refactor-a-million-line-repo-with-1-393-subagents Hermes Agent Software Development As described in the source, teknium gave his everyday Hermes agent a standing goal with /goal, plus a dev skill it had built up over time. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/recreate-a-video-ad-as-a-javascript-animation.html recreate-a-video-ad-as-a-javascript-animation Claude Media & Content Community report: the builder downloaded a ChatGPT ad from YouTube, extracted its audio, and gave Claude (Opus 5.5) access to ffmpeg. A prompt asked for a pure JavaScript recreation powered by the same audio, with subtle animations captured and high production value. It finished inside an hour in one go. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/recover-unidentified-funds.html recover-unidentified-funds Claude Finance As described in the source, from the linked report: using a treasury Claude skill, Cornell finance and AI teams were able to recover $100k in back payments by identifying and claiming unidentified funds using a technique known as "unidentified money.". Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/record-meetings-and-suggest-answers-live-from-uploaded-files.html record-meetings-and-suggest-answers-live-from-uploaded-files Claude Productivity Observed in the wild: someone adds PDF, text or markdown files to Parrot's knowledge base. Parrot records system audio and the mic with no bot joining, and transcribes with Whisper locally. The site quotes about $0. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/record-how-you-work-then-automate-the-repetitive-parts.html record-how-you-work-then-automate-the-repetitive-parts Custom agent Productivity Documented elsewhere: screenpipe runs in the background and captures a screenshot plus the OS accessibility tree whenever something meaningful happens, such as an app switch, click, or typing pause. It falls back to OCR when needed, and transcribes audio locally. The source gives no results or measurements for these automations, only example prompts. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/reconfigure-home-assistant-lighting-automations.html reconfigure-home-assistant-lighting-automations Custom agent Personal Assistant Real-world thread: someone prompted an AI to edit Home Assistant automations so any signal turning on the house's bright white LED spots would instead kill those and activate the diffuse indirect light strips instead. The AI also added rules turning all lights off at 10pm, with color ones switching to red only. The house now uses the softer glow lights by default and shifts to full red at night. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/reconcile-orders-draft-invoices-and-order-laptops-nightly.html reconcile-orders-draft-invoices-and-order-laptops-nightly ChatGPT Shopping From the linked report, chatGPT runs nightly booked prompts that pull completed orders, compare them to CRM entries, create draft invoices in the accounting system, and log deal names and amounts in Google Sheets; separate jobs file NDAs from email into CRM folders and handle insurance requirements from contracts. For hardware, it accessed the logged-in bank account for the credit card and HR system for addresses to order specific MacBook models from Apple and prepare a return box. The automations handle tasks equivalent to three people's work in less time, covering writing 1400 lines of commission calculation code, with around 20 such jobs active. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/reconcile-monthly-business-transactions.html reconcile-monthly-business-transactions Claude Code Finance From the linked report, rather than pasting a CSV into chat, the author had Claude Code build a re-runnable pipeline. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/reconcile-industry-files-and-chase-clarifications.html reconcile-industry-files-and-chase-clarifications Custom agent Travel & Booking Documented elsewhere: Custom agent was pointed at reconcile industry files and chase clarifications. from the linked report: and contacts people to resolve bad data, following an agent workflow ingests a complex industry file, loads it into a database, spawns agents to check it against work in flight. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/recompile-a-1991-assembly-pc-game.html recompile-a-1991-assembly-pc-game Claude Code Productivity One practitioner notes that claude Code shows up in a write-up about recompile a 1991 assembly PC game, with figures like 1991, 386. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/reclaim-forgotten-crypto-airdrops-and-deposits.html reclaim-forgotten-crypto-airdrops-and-deposits Claude Productivity A published walkthrough shows someone gave Claude and GPT agents access to their full blockchain transaction history. The agents scanned every past transaction and attempted to recompose each one to check whether any deposit lacked a matching withdrawal. This recovered no longer remembered airdrops and deposits worth 10x the annual cost of the AI subscriptions. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/receipt-hunter-across-two-inboxes.html receipt-hunter-across-two-inboxes Claude Code Finance A Claude Code agent scans Gmail and Outlook for receipts, removes duplicates, logs expenses, and remembers vendor categories. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/rebuild-a-platform-and-add-rag-features-in-one-day.html rebuild-a-platform-and-add-rag-features-in-one-day Replit Agent Media & Content Free Replit Agent day → full-stack rebuild + seven live RAG features + a flashy demo reel. Rough scoreboard: 46 commits, 14,000+ LOC, ~12 hours, three shippable pieces. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/rebuild-a-math-curriculum-into-a-one-year-plan.html rebuild-a-math-curriculum-into-a-one-year-plan Claude Code Research & Data Real-world thread: claude Code shows up in a write-up about rebuild a math curriculum into a one-year plan. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/rebook-after-a-flight-cancellation.html rebook-after-a-flight-cancellation ChatGPT Agent Travel & Booking Real-world thread: after the cancellation Someone activated ChatGPT Work mode and directed it to locate replacement flights, arrange the rental car, and consolidate the updated itinerary details into one location. No further access or hand-offs are described. The task took about 30 minutes instead of over an hour and made the situation simpler, though it remained a pain. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/rebook-a-work-flight-to-save-money.html rebook-a-work-flight-to-save-money Custom agent Travel & Booking A published walkthrough shows arden monitored Someone's booked Zurich work flight. It sent a text proposing a rebook that would save $7,750 and asking for approval. The rebooking went through and the $7,750 refund appeared on the card. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/rebook-a-delayed-flight-connection-mid-flight.html rebook-a-delayed-flight-connection-mid-flight Dots Travel & Booking According to the write-up, denis gave Dot from OpenAI access to its own computer. While he was still on the delayed Alaska flight, the agent simultaneously messaged Alaska, Delta, and KLM, located a new routing, and requested the free rebooking. The agent secured the rebooking and avoided an while people sleep stay in Seattle. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/reading-list-turned-into-a-podcast.html reading-list-turned-into-a-podcast n8n Media & Content A workflow takes saved articles, summarizes them with an LLM and converts them to audio episodes via text-to-speech. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/read-and-edit-word-excel-and-powerpoint-files.html read-and-edit-word-excel-and-powerpoint-files Claude Code Software Development Documented elsewhere: officeCLI is a single binary with no Office install needed. Running its install command adds a skill to detected agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf and GitHub Copilot. The README shows sample decks, Word documents and spreadsheets that it says agents made with no templates or manual editing. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/race-three-models-to-build-a-counter-strike-clone.html race-three-models-to-build-a-counter-strike-clone Codex Productivity Documented elsewhere: each model (Codex Max 5.1, Opus 4.5, Gemini 3 Pro) ran in its provider's CLI on a top-tier plan with default settings. They got about seven consecutive prompts. All three ended with a working multiplayer 3D shooter and no hand-written code. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/queue-maintenance-and-bug-fixes-for-cursor-background-agents.html queue-maintenance-and-bug-fixes-for-cursor-background-agents Cursor Software Development From the linked report, zachary Proser authorized Cursor's GitHub app for his organizations. Cursor then cloned the repos into sandboxed containers, where the agents ran commands and stood up branches. By the time his coffee was done, most tasks were finished or ready for review. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/query-600-gb-of-hacker-news-arxiv-and-lesswrong-in-plain-english.html query-600-gb-of-hacker-news-arxiv-and-lesswrong-in-plain-english Claude Code Research & Data Documented elsewhere: Claude Code was pointed at query 600 GB of Hacker News, arXiv, and LessWrong in plain English. claude Code uses a public read-only index to write SQL and vector queries, and can also provide email alerts for specific criteria. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/qualify-enrich-and-book-demos-for-saas-leads.html qualify-enrich-and-book-demos-for-saas-leads Lindy Sales & Marketing A published walkthrough shows A Lindy agent is available round the clock to qualify, enrich, and book demos for SaaS lead gen, resulting in a rise in mock conversion from 40% to 78%. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/qualify-website-visitors-and-book-calls-automatically.html qualify-website-visitors-and-book-calls-automatically n8n Travel & Booking A published walkthrough shows the builder stood up the agent in n8n. It was connected to the website to chat with visitors. It turns website visitors into booked calls. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/qualify-scraped-leads-and-write-personalized-openers.html qualify-scraped-leads-and-write-personalized-openers Claude Code Productivity Linked example of qualify scraped leads and write personalized openers. In the thread, the concrete use described is feeding Claude Code a prospect list plus recent company news so it can automate research-heavy prospecting. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/qualify-real-estate-leads-and-book-viewings.html qualify-real-estate-leads-and-book-viewings Custom agent Sales & Marketing Case study takeaway: the Telegram bot for a luxury real estate firm was given access to a property knowledge base, live calendars, email sending, and the CRM. On each incoming message it first collected name, email and number, then asked for budget, location, type and bedrooms, semantically retrieved matching listings with images, checked availability to book the slot and emailed confirmation with agent contacts, while transcribing voice notes for the same flow and logging every lead. No results, metrics or shortfalls are stated. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/pull-wallet-data-from-dashboards-into-a-spreadsheet.html pull-wallet-data-from-dashboards-into-a-spreadsheet Claude computer use Productivity A published walkthrough shows claude computer use was enabled with no custom setup. One prompt asked it to pull wallet data from dashboards, check them, and clean a summary in a spreadsheet. Task finished in 19 minutes with visible screenshots and actions for oversight; cost stayed tiny even while exploring. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/pull-stock-fundamentals-from-sec-filings-for-valuation.html pull-stock-fundamentals-from-sec-filings-for-valuation ChatGPT Agent Automation One practitioner notes that the developer prompted ChatGPT Agent mode, chosen for its web search, to produce fundamentals for four tickers (AAPL, MSFT, NVDA, TSLA) from SEC 10-Q filings. For each metric the agent returned a value, trend direction, 1-5 score, explanation, filing URL and the exact derivation. The agent output fed a working pipeline that combined valuation, sentiment and fundamental votes and backtested the picks over 63 trading days. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/pull-invoices-from-gmail-and-organize-them.html pull-invoices-from-gmail-and-organize-them Custom agent Email & Inbox According to the write-up, the poster assembled Invoice Agent for teams that still handle vendor invoices through email. It connects to Gmail or Outlook, detects incoming invoice emails, uses AI to extract the key details, and puts them into a searchable place; at the time of the post, the human’s role was still validating the workflow, pricing, and positioning through feedback. The post gives no usage or accuracy numbers yet; it presents the product as a side project in validation. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/publish-ai-written-blog-posts-from-trending-news-to-wordpress.html publish-ai-written-blog-posts-from-trending-news-to-wordpress n8n Media & Content From the linked report, n8n shows up in a write-up about publish AI-written blog posts from trending news to WordPress, with figures like 8. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/prototype-product-features-as-a-non-coding-pm.html prototype-product-features-as-a-non-coding-pm Cursor Software Development Documented elsewhere: eric Xiao cloned his trip-planner codebase and had Cursor describe it. He saved that description as an AGENTS.md file so new chats start with context. The agent located gaps such as no saved trips, loading indicator, map or follow-ups, and drew wireframes for each. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/prospect-score-leads-and-run-outbound-email-sequences.html prospect-score-leads-and-run-outbound-email-sequences Claude Email & Inbox As described in the source, getSalesClaw is a product that scans Apollo.io and job boards twice daily for prospects matching an ideal customer profile. It scores each lead 0–100 and drops low scorers. The source is a product description with no results, numbers, or user reports. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/proposal-trip-to-japan.html proposal-trip-to-japan Manus Travel & Booking A writer tested Manus on planning a seven-day romantic trip to Japan from Seattle and reviewed the result. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/program-a-sub-2k-personal-robot.html program-a-sub-2k-personal-robot Custom agent Productivity A published walkthrough shows the source is a launch post for MARS, an assembled, calibrated robot with a Jetson Orin Nano, a 5DoF arm with wrist camera, an RGBD camera, 2D LiDAR and speakers. You write "behaviors" in the BASIC SDK, which runs the robot like an AI agent with VLAs. The post is a launch announcement and reports no results or measurements. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/produce-cited-research-briefs.html produce-cited-research-briefs Custom agent Research & Data Real-world thread: custom agent shows up in a write-up about produce cited research briefs. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/produce-cinematic-video.html produce-cinematic-video Grok Bot Media & Content A published walkthrough shows utilizing three bespoke agents, Grok Imagine was established as a cinematic studio, providing prompt direction, audio scripting, and consistent video content with consistent characters. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/produce-a-track-in-ableton-live-by-talking.html produce-a-track-in-ableton-live-by-talking Codex DevOps & Infra One practitioner notes that the MCP server lets Codex run Python inside Ableton Live's object model, plus assembled-in tools for common tasks. In the demo, The builder sent chat prompts asking for an EDM song with macOS "say" vocals, chiptune sounds and 80s drum machines. Complete live sets were assembled from scratch in a few minutes, and follow-up prompts refined them. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/produce-a-sourced-research-document.html produce-a-sourced-research-document Grok Bot Research & Data From the linked report, as described in the source: and delivered a complete research document in one minute, following grok coordinated 16 specialized agents that searched and parsed 896 sources, debated and peer reviewed. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/produce-a-short-form-video-from-research-to-captions.html produce-a-short-form-video-from-research-to-captions Hermes Agent Media & Content One practitioner notes that the builder prompted Hermes Agent step by step. It searched the web and compared sources, then wrote a research document and recommended a topic. The result is a rendered vertical video for Shorts, Reels or TikTok. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/produce-a-full-video.html produce-a-full-video Grok Bot Media & Content Case study takeaway: grok Bot shows up in a write-up about produce a full video. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/produce-a-finished-music-release-from-one-chat.html produce-a-finished-music-release-from-one-chat Claude Code Media & Content Linked example of produce a finished music release from one chat. Claude Code, connected to the AetherWave Studio connector, wrote the lyrics in the chat. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/process-and-query-email-across-providers-via-mcp-agents.html process-and-query-email-across-providers-via-mcp-agents Cursor Email & Inbox Community report: the developer spent six months writing the codebase with help from Cursor, Codex and Claude Code. The system runs in the cloud and connects to Gmail and Outlook mailboxes. The codebase is largely done and running in private beta. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/process-a-sales-order-from-verification-to-client-email-draft.html process-a-sales-order-from-verification-to-client-email-draft Grok Bot Sales & Marketing Sales desk flow on Grok Bot: verify the commercial paperwork trio (proforma, PO, bank proof), patch the mis-typed deposit day, spit out commission + packing artifacts, and stash a client-facing note in Gmail’s draft folder. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/prepare-plan-execute-review-for-non-code-work.html prepare-plan-execute-review-for-non-code-work Claude Code Design & Creative A designer runs brand-system work through Claude Code using plan mode, then a review prompt that lists issues only so they can choose fixes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/prepare-federal-and-state-tax-returns-from-a-folder.html prepare-federal-and-state-tax-returns-from-a-folder Claude Finance As described in the source, the Redditor sqlgenius pointed Claude at the tax folder on their computer and typed a short "do my taxes" request. Claude read the tax forms, asked a few follow-up questions, and carried over the Redditor's prior trading losses. The Redditor says Claude produced federal and state returns for 2024 and 2025 in 15 minutes, and that TurboTax gave the same results. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/prepare-and-file-overdue-german-vat-statements.html prepare-and-file-overdue-german-vat-statements Claude Cowork Finance Community report: gave Claude Cowork a project folder holding invoice and receipt PDFs and asked it to prepare accounts for each quarter. Logged into Elster, then Leaned on the Claude Chrome extension to locate the forms, fill them with the prepared data, and submit the Q3 2025 VAT statements. The overdue Q3 2025 statements were filed. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/prep-sales-calls-and-research-youtube-ideas.html prep-sales-calls-and-research-youtube-ideas Lindy Sales & Marketing As described in the source, lindy shows up in a write-up about prep sales calls and research YouTube ideas, with figures like 10. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/prep-meetings-and-check-inbox-against-calendar.html prep-meetings-and-check-inbox-against-calendar Meta Muse Email & Inbox According to the write-up, meta Muse shows up in a write-up about prep meetings and check inbox against calendar. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/pre-stage-household-grocery-carts-from-instacart-history.html pre-stage-household-grocery-carts-from-instacart-history OpenClaw Shopping As described in the source, a nightly script imports each day's Instacart orders into a local SQLite database powered by Instacart's own item IDs, via a community CLI. A SQL analyzer takes the median days between purchases for each item and marks items due, soon, or not due. Moving from an LLM clicking through the browser to canonical IDs took accuracy from eleven of fourteen items wrong on a typical run to 100%. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/pre-qualify-inbound-leads-automatically.html pre-qualify-inbound-leads-automatically Zapier Agents Sales & Marketing New lead arrives → Zapier Agent digs into the company → drafts a fit brief → sales only sees the keepers. Futurepedia’s funnel runs five automated beats with zero SDR inbox triage. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/power-a-restaurant-customer-service-chatbot-backend.html power-a-restaurant-customer-service-chatbot-backend Make Shopping A published walkthrough shows a restaurant chatbot that responds to customer inquiries through text and voice memos is powered by a Make.com workflow as the backend. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/post-a-word-to-pastebin-and-return-the-link.html post-a-word-to-pastebin-and-return-the-link Operator Shopping Linked example of post a word to Pastebin and return the link. The poster tested OpenAI Operator on several odd browser tasks inside its own web browser. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/port-the-copilot-runtime-to-rust-agentically.html port-the-copilot-runtime-to-rust-agentically GitHub Copilot Knowledge & Notes One practitioner notes that microsoft Leaned on Copilot, driven by several LLMs picked for their strengths, to rewrite the TypeScript Copilot runtime in Rust one module at a time. The port was a direct replacement and did not restructure the runtime. Agents turned 430,000 lines of TypeScript into 800,000 lines of Rust over 14. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/port-a-chrome-extension-to-safari.html port-a-chrome-extension-to-safari ChatGPT Productivity Observed in the wild: the builder already had Session Buddy installed in Chrome, so they told ChatGPT it could pull the source code from there. They then asked it to port the extension to Safari and install it. After about 20 minutes, Session Buddy was running in Safari. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/port-claude-code-hooks-to-pi-extensions.html port-claude-code-hooks-to-pi-extensions Claude Code Knowledge & Notes One practitioner notes that the builder had assembled up a collection of Claude Code hooks over several months. Unlike skills, hooks use a Claude-specific format, so they were the hardest part to migrate to pi. According to The builder, the agent did the port very quickly. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/point-a-computer-using-bot-at-any-repo.html point-a-computer-using-bot-at-any-repo Grok Bot Software Development Linked example of point a computer-using bot at any repo. In the thread, commenters describe Grok Bot as a general computer-powered by agent rather than a repo-tied cloud coder. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/playtest-a-godot-4-game.html playtest-a-godot-4-game Cursor Productivity From the linked report, cursor shows up in a write-up about playtest a Godot 4 game, with figures like 4. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/play-test-your-own-game.html play-test-your-own-game Claude Knowledge & Notes One practitioner notes that the game is a browser-based, turn-based crossword dungeon. Claude wrote a node.js wrapper that leaves the game files alone. Milestone 13, with five new special encounters, took 12 minutes and about 120k tokens. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/play-online-math-games-in-agent-mode.html play-online-math-games-in-agent-mode ChatGPT Agent Finance Ben Orlin’s Math Games with Bad Drawings, played by GPT-5 agent mode in a sandboxed browser—clicks, moves, visible chain-of-thought. Far less flop than the same setup on rental cars or tax PDFs. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/play-mayor-in-simcity-through-an-api.html play-mayor-in-simcity-through-an-api Custom agent Software Development From the linked report, you connect your own agent to a headless Micropolis city simulator, either through an MCP server or a REST API. You give it a short brief, for example a small city with reliable power and room to grow, and the agent plays mayor. The site reports 406 mayors, 1,902 cities assembled and about 28 million total population. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/play-rollercoaster-tycoon.html play-rollercoaster-tycoon Claude Code Productivity Observed in the wild: the page says an AI agent runs a RollerCoaster Tycoon theme park on its own through a command line. It places rides, fixes infrastructure problems, and writes CFO-style reports. The source I could read states no numbers or results beyond the claim that the AI manages the park on its own. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/play-pok-mon-silver-on-an-emulator-via-computer-use.html play-pok-mon-silver-on-an-emulator-via-computer-use ChatGPT Agent Productivity A published walkthrough shows someone ran Pokémon Silver in an emulator and let ChatGPT, which they call Lyric, control it through Computer Use. They played alongside it instead of having it only give advice. It worked well enough to start the game and pick a starter. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/plan-then-execute-coding-with-stacked-review-passes.html plan-then-execute-coding-with-stacked-review-passes Claude Code Software Development A developer plans features into markdown files, has the agent execute them, and runs several review skills on every diff before the PR. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/plan-vacations-handle-visas-and-make-bookings.html plan-vacations-handle-visas-and-make-bookings Make Sales & Marketing According to the write-up, the poster ran AI that filtered hundreds of dating outreach messages, letting dozens of live chats reach direct contact after chosen ones passed the filters. Separately the AI planned a vacation, handled the visa, and completed all bookings. Someone states it is going great and loves the setup, with no other results or shortfalls described. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/plan-parties-and-shop-for-products.html plan-parties-and-shop-for-products Claude Shopping Community report: claude shows up in a write-up about plan parties and shop for products. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/plan-meals-and-track-symptoms.html plan-meals-and-track-symptoms Claude Code Software Development According to the write-up, claude Code shows up in a write-up about plan meals and track symptoms. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/plan-meals-and-place-grocery-orders-from-a-google-doc.html plan-meals-and-place-grocery-orders-from-a-google-doc Claude Shopping Claude covered plan meals and place grocery orders from a Google Doc. The poster says they assembled a workflow with Claude and Muse to run a two-week household meal cycle. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/plan-in-claude-code-implement-in-codex.html plan-in-claude-code-implement-in-codex Codex Software Development Calvin keeps Claude Code open for planning, git and exploration, then flips to Codex when ready to implement, with separate-family review on PRs. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/plan-family-vacations.html plan-family-vacations ChatGPT Home & Family One practitioner notes that utilizes ChatGPT Deep Research to search for destinations, attractions, and trips with detailed family instructions, but is incapable of filtering and reserving lodging. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/plan-family-meals-and-enter-recipes-into-grocy.html plan-family-meals-and-enter-recipes-into-grocy Claude Cowork Home & Family As described in the source, the builder ran Grocy in Home Assistant and gave Claude Cowork's computer use access to it in Chrome. He supplied recipes from books and online, had Claude scale them for four, and left it to type them in while he did other things. Claude added all the recipes and stood up the product categories, needing a couple of tweaks. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/plan-business-trips-and-learn-from-each-debrief.html plan-business-trips-and-learn-from-each-debrief Hermes Agent Travel & Booking Documented elsewhere: assembled on Hermes Agent's own memory, skills and web search, running on gemini-3-flash-preview. With seeded traveler profiles, it ran three web searches for a Dubai trip and applied stored preferences unprompted. The first plan was one recommendation (about $850) ending at pending approval. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/plan-article-topics-and-draft-web-articles.html plan-article-topics-and-draft-web-articles Claude Cowork Knowledge & Notes According to the write-up, on a Windows PC, the writer points Cowork at a folder of past articles. It reads them and saves a topic table that flags overlap with earlier pieces and suggests how to differentiate. The writer now produces 40 to 50 pieces a month, commissioned articles and notes combined, and no longer copy-pastes between chat and files. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/plan-and-order-a-week-of-groceries.html plan-and-order-a-week-of-groceries Claude Shopping From the linked report, claude shows up in a write-up about plan and order a week of groceries. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/plan-and-book-a-short-notice-work-trip.html plan-and-book-a-short-notice-work-trip Grok Bot Travel & Booking According to the write-up, user handed short-notice Munich work trip planning to Grok Bot, giving it the destination and constraints of airport/Mynaric access without car rental. The agent researched flights, suggested departing a day early with options; after Someone chose, it initiated booking (user had to intervene repeatedly to enter details). Hotel proved convenient with restaurant and grocery nearby; $15 train to site and $5 back for sightseeing worked without issues. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/plan-a-trip-and-book-flight-hotel-and-shuttle.html plan-a-trip-and-book-flight-hotel-and-shuttle Dots Travel & Booking Itinerary planning: fine. Shuttle nag: fine. Form filling: fine. Entering 2FA and clicking “confirm” without asking: not fine. Dots therefore left John’s trip only partly booked. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/plan-a-road-trip.html plan-a-road-trip Claude Cowork Travel & Booking One practitioner notes that employed Claude as the complete planner for a visit to National Harbor, MD, and it proved to be a helpful resource on journeys. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/plan-a-group-weekend-trip-and-make-reservations.html plan-a-group-weekend-trip-and-make-reservations ChatGPT Agent Travel & Booking One practitioner notes that from his phone he prompted ChatGPT to use his full chat history for a long weekend with 8 friends, generate the three best options, build a full-stack site for the nine to coordinate preferences and reach agreement, then make reservations and draft the Gmail invite once decided. The agent handled the entire sequence on its own. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/plan-a-family-trip-and-pre-fill-bookings.html plan-a-family-trip-and-pre-fill-bookings ChatGPT Agent Travel & Booking According to the write-up, the reporter asked ChatGPT Agent to plan a 4-day family trip to San Diego from Newark, with pool hotels and activities for kids under 10, and to save an itinerary in Google Docs. The agent searched Google Flights, compared kid-friendly hotels, and listed attractions such as the zoo and LEGOLAND. The itinerary and comparisons came out well, and the reporter called it an incredible planning tool. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/plan-a-family-christmas-trip-and-book-flights.html plan-a-family-christmas-trip-and-book-flights Meta Muse Travel & Booking Linked example of plan a family Christmas trip and book flights. User gave Muse access for budgeting and health/fitness goals. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/plan-a-birthday-evening.html plan-a-birthday-evening Meta Muse Travel & Booking Community report: Meta Muse was pointed at plan a birthday evening. the agent for Muse arranged a wife's birthday celebration, arranged dinner, and obtained two tickets with authorization. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/plan-a-birthday-day.html plan-a-birthday-day Custom agent Business & Startups From the linked report, the AI assistant of a co-founder orchestrated his birthday, collecting stories from colleagues, arranging the day, reserving dinner, and placing a cake. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/pick-the-cheapest-capable-model-per-task-for-crm-and-email-work.html pick-the-cheapest-capable-model-per-task-for-crm-and-email-work OpenClaw Email & Inbox Documented elsewhere: openClaw shows up in a write-up about pick the cheapest capable model per task for CRM and email work. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/pick-a-raffle-winner-from-a-google-sheet.html pick-a-raffle-winner-from-a-google-sheet Claude Code Automation Claude Code selects a random row from a Google Sheet of giveaway submissions for a Slack community raffle. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/phone-local-stores-to-check-product-stock.html phone-local-stores-to-check-product-stock Grok Bot Shopping A published walkthrough shows the Grok-based agent was wired to Bland.ai for phone calls. It dialed local stores, held conversations to check stock on a specific product, and returned full transcripts plus availability status. The agent completed multiple store calls and delivered transcripts with stock details. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/phone-a-restaurant-to-book-a-full-table.html phone-a-restaurant-to-book-a-full-table OpenClaw Shopping Real-world thread: nick Larkins asked OpenClaw to book a dinner reservation. The online booking attempt failed because the restaurant was fully booked. The agent located a last-minute cancellation and booked the table at a busy new restaurant. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/phone-a-restaurant-in-thai-to-book-a-table.html phone-a-restaurant-in-thai-to-book-a-table Grok Bot Shopping From the linked report, grok bot was integrated with JooVoice.com to make outbound calls. It spoke Thai to book a restaurant table for Someone. The agent completed the booking successfully. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/pay-bills-clear-inbox-and-order-groceries.html pay-bills-clear-inbox-and-order-groceries Meta Muse Email & Inbox A published walkthrough shows someone introduced Scout as their Muse agent. Scout paid bills, reached inbox zero, and ordered groceries. All tasks finished before Someone's coffee went cold. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/patch-laptop-bios-to-unlock-hidden-firmware-menus.html patch-laptop-bios-to-unlock-hidden-firmware-menus Claude Code Productivity A published walkthrough shows A Reddit someone gave Claude a raw BIOS dump from their laptop and asked it to unlock hidden firmware menus. Claude disassembled the binary, located the RSA signature-check function, and patched the verifier so it always returns true. following flashing, the owner could reach settings the manufacturer hid. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/patch-annoying-software-behavior-by-pointing-an-agent-at-it.html patch-annoying-software-behavior-by-pointing-an-agent-at-it Codex Software Development Community report: the builder pointed coding agents at software that annoyed them. For vmconnect.exe not going fullscreen after login, the agent debugged the problem and assembled a hook system that leaves Microsoft's files untouched. Both fixes reportedly worked, though a few rounds of telling the model to do better were sometimes needed. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/parallel-claude-code-workstreams-for-a-saas.html parallel-claude-code-workstreams-for-a-saas Claude Code Business & Startups A solo founder shipped a social-media management platform with 12 API integrations in three weeks by splitting layers into parallel Claude Code worktrees and Codex review. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/pair-program.html pair-program Claude Software Development Case study takeaway: claude shows up in a write-up about pair-program. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/pagerduty-incident-to-proposed-fix-pr.html pagerduty-incident-to-proposed-fix-pr Cursor Software Development A PagerDuty trigger spins up a Cursor agent that checks Datadog logs and recent code changes, then Slack-posts a summary with a proposed fix PR. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/pdf-schedules-turned-into-calendar-files.html pdf-schedules-turned-into-calendar-files Claude Personal Assistant A script has an LLM convert quarterly PDF schedules into ICS files, then cross-checks the ICS against the original PDF. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/organize-saved-recipes-and-research-trip-flights.html organize-saved-recipes-and-research-trip-flights Meta Muse Travel & Booking According to the write-up, the writer asked Muse, which Meta's account was already linked to, to go through all their saved Facebook and Instagram posts, pull out the recipes, and organize them. For travel, they gave it trip timing and a nonstop-only preference. Muse returned a recipe list grouped by type, with ingredients, steps and links to the original posts. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/organize-deal-flow.html organize-deal-flow Grok Bot Sales & Marketing Observed in the wild: grok Bot shows up in a write-up about organize deal flow. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/organize-a-friday-night.html organize-a-friday-night Custom agent Personal Assistant From the linked report, custom agent shows up in a write-up about organize a Friday night. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/organize-downloads-and-find-duplicates.html organize-downloads-and-find-duplicates Claude Code Personal Files A non-developer runs Claude Code from their home directory to find duplicates, tidy Downloads, and suggest a cleaner directory structure. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/order-lunch-through-an-ai-agent.html order-lunch-through-an-ai-agent Custom agent Productivity Real-world thread: abhishek gave an AI agent his CVV and OTP so it could place a lunch order. The agent completed the purchase and payment independently. The food was delivered without any intervention. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/order-healthy-meals-twice-a-day-automatically.html order-healthy-meals-twice-a-day-automatically Custom agent Productivity Community report: flo set up an agent with instructions to pick the healthiest options and order food. The agent decided and ordered meals twice a day. Every meal over the last two weeks was decided by the agent. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/order-groceries-online.html order-groceries-online Custom agent Shopping As described in the source, custom agent shows up in a write-up about order groceries online, with figures like 3.6, 27. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/order-groceries-from-health-data-and-a-meal-plan.html order-groceries-from-health-data-and-a-meal-plan Custom agent Shopping As described in the source, austen fed the AI his recent body scans, health data, preferences, and meal plan. The agent then placed grocery orders automatically via HEB delivery. It became one of his favorite AI uses. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/order-family-groceries-from-fridge-contents.html order-family-groceries-from-fridge-contents Grok Bot Home & Family According to the write-up, the parent says Grok Bot is connected to a Samsung fridge, where it can view two camera-visible shelves, and they supplemented that by feeding it a typical grocery list assembled from scanned past receipts. Twice a week the agent checks what is likely needed, adds routine items, hunts discounts and promo codes, then places the order and times pickup for set days at one of two stores on the drive home; the human mainly set the rules and gets a morning message to combine pickups. They say it saves substantial time, money, and energy, and in Norway they also have it push the grocery info into Oda while making sure the basket clears the roughly $80 free-delivery threshold. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/order-starbucks-by-voice-from-a-tesla-while-driving.html order-starbucks-by-voice-from-a-tesla-while-driving Grok Bot Productivity Linked example of order Starbucks by voice from a Tesla while driving. The poster said they had been testing Grok Bot in a Tesla for a couple of weeks and used the in-car version, not a phone, while FSD was driving. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/orchestrate-video-generation-from-the-command-line.html orchestrate-video-generation-from-the-command-line Grok Bot Media & Content Case study takeaway: someone ran their custom agent dimul from the command line. It connected to Grok via CLI under a SuperGrok subscription and Leaned on it to orchestrate Imagine clip generation from prompts. A 215-second video resulted. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/orchestrate-academic-research-and-writing-workflows.html orchestrate-academic-research-and-writing-workflows Claude Code Research & Data Case study takeaway: the thread describes people powered by Claude Code less as a software engineer and more as an orchestrator for research work. One researcher mapped agent roles like PI, operations, interns, grad students, programmer, and QA/fact-checker; another said they assembled a similar lab scaffold on Dust with defined roles, while a commenter used Claude Code directly in VS Code to write a master's thesis in LaTeX or Markdown instead of Google Docs. People in the thread report it works well for structuring research collaboration and speeds up writing, but they also say current tools fight the workflow: model availability changed on Dust, Claude’s context compaction hurt long-form reasoning, other platforms had weak document management, and manual data input remained a problem. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/optimize-cuda-kernels.html optimize-cuda-kernels Custom agent Productivity Community report: langGraph was leaned on to build a C++ CUDA test harness, which was afterward run by AI agents to obtain benchmarks and optimize the kernels powered by Nsight. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/obsidian-vault-as-a-second-brain-for-a-non-developer.html obsidian-vault-as-a-second-brain-for-a-non-developer Claude Code Knowledge & Notes A non-technical user pairs Claude Code with Obsidian notes, a handover command for memory and a weekly review routine. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/nightly-roadmap-chipping.html nightly-roadmap-chipping Codex Software Development A Codex automation reads a product roadmap over MCP, estimates difficulty from the codebase, and ships one small fix or improvement each run. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/neoteo-follow-up-on-the-tess-candidate.html neoteo-follow-up-on-the-tess-candidate Claude Code Research & Data After the Claude Code TESS analysis circulated, observing time was scheduled to test whether predicted transits around TIC 4206066 actually occur. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/negotiate-retention-discounts-on-bills-by-phone.html negotiate-retention-discounts-on-bills-by-phone Custom agent Productivity Real-world thread: kudos assembled a voice agent that phones a service provider for Someone, works through IVR menus, waits on hold, and asks for a retention discount. By default it negotiates within the existing plan and only changes plans if Someone says they're open to it. The co-founder saved $840 a year on T-Mobile after allowing plan changes, and an Xfinity example cut $276 a year. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/negotiate-hotel-rooms-by-phone-call.html negotiate-hotel-rooms-by-phone-call Custom agent Travel & Booking Observed in the wild: the AI agent @hey__fo was instructed to handle hotel booking for two rooms over five nights in Japan. It placed the call independently and conducted the negotiation on the phone. The agent secured the exact same two rooms for all five nights. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/negotiate-bills-handle-returns-and-cancel-subscriptions.html negotiate-bills-handle-returns-and-cancel-subscriptions Meta Muse Shopping Muse challenge lore from Meta folks: AT&T bill talked down, Amazon returns queued, IKEA furniture sent back, vet claim filed, dusty book-club sub killed with refund. One thread’s running total: ~$2,121—treat as anecdote, not audited. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/negotiate-bills-by-emailing-providers-to-match-competitors.html negotiate-bills-by-emailing-providers-to-match-competitors ChatGPT Agent Email & Inbox Case study takeaway: in ChatGPT's Work mode with Gmail connected (or three months of statements uploaded), you paste three prompts. The first lists recurring bills and sorts them into negotiate, cancel or leave alone. The source gives no savings figures or real results. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/negotiate-a-lower-fiber-bill-with-at-amp-t-chat.html negotiate-a-lower-fiber-bill-with-at-amp-t-chat Meta Muse Finance Case study takeaway: despite retaining the bundle discount and no contract, Meta Muse managed to negotiate with AT&T support chat to reduce the price of a fiber plan from $85.94 to $60/mo. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/negotiate-a-lower-godaddy-support-price-via-chat-agent.html negotiate-a-lower-godaddy-support-price-via-chat-agent Custom agent Productivity One practitioner notes that the poster had an AI agent handle a GoDaddy support chat, with instructions to negotiate a lower price and check the chat every 60 seconds for new replies. In the comments, they said they used FillApp, a Chrome extension, and the agent carried the exchange until it reached a lower offer; the human appears to have mainly set it up and let it run. They said the final price was renegotiated down to $278, which they described as a $70 savings. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/negotiate-a-lower-comcast-bill-via-chatbot.html negotiate-a-lower-comcast-bill-via-chatbot ChatGPT Finance Observed in the wild: doNotPay assembled a bot on the OpenAI GPT-3 API that chats with company support. An engineer typed a request to lower the internet bill while keeping the same plan. It secured a $10 monthly discount, about $120 a year. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/negotiate-a-car-purchase-between-dealers.html negotiate-a-car-purchase-between-dealers OpenClaw Shopping Case study takeaway: AJ Stuyvenberg ran OpenClaw with access to his email and browser. It researched Reddit prices, searched dealer inventory within 50 miles of Boston, and filled dealer contact forms with his real details. Reddit research put typical Massachusetts prices near $58,000. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/negotiate-a-tv-price-with-a-retailer-x27-s-chat.html negotiate-a-tv-price-with-a-retailer-x27-s-chat ChatGPT Agent Productivity Observed in the wild: chatGPT Agent shows up in a write-up about negotiate a TV price with a retailer's chat, with figures like 939. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/negotiate-facebook-marketplace-purchases.html negotiate-facebook-marketplace-purchases OpenClaw Productivity Documented elsewhere: openClaw shows up in a write-up about negotiate Facebook Marketplace purchases, with figures like $1500, 5. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/move-openclaw-skills-to-grok-bot.html move-openclaw-skills-to-grok-bot Grok Bot Productivity Linked example of move OpenClaw skills to Grok Bot. The commenter said they replaced OpenClaw and other automations with Grok Bot for admin and personal-assistant work, not mainly development. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/morning-test-coverage-agent-on-merged-code.html morning-test-coverage-agent-on-merged-code Cursor Personal Assistant Every morning a Cursor automation reviews recently merged code, adds tests that match existing conventions, runs them, and opens a PR. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/morning-handoff-from-yesterday-s-agent-sessions.html morning-handoff-from-yesterday-s-agent-sessions Codex Personal Assistant A scheduled Codex automation reviews prior sessions, groups what needs attention and emails top priorities with deep links back to each thread. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/monitor-tech-subreddits-and-competitors-draft-emails-and-articles.html monitor-tech-subreddits-and-competitors-draft-emails-and-articles Claude Cowork Productivity A published walkthrough shows claude Cowork shows up in a write-up about monitor tech subreddits and competitors, draft emails and articles. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/monitor-tasks-and-open-pull-requests.html monitor-tasks-and-open-pull-requests Cursor Productivity A published walkthrough shows as described in the source: initiates a persistent script that keeps watch on tasks and opens pull requests with Cursor, establishing a data pipeline and summarizer. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/monitor-socials-and-flag-comments-dms-and-mentions-worth-answering.html monitor-socials-and-flag-comments-dms-and-mentions-worth-answering Custom agent Productivity As described in the source, custom agent shows up in a write-up about monitor socials and flag comments, DMs and mentions worth answering. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/monitor-public-documents-for-changes-affecting-teaching-materials.html monitor-public-documents-for-changes-affecting-teaching-materials Dots Productivity According to the write-up, dots shows up in a write-up about monitor public documents for changes affecting teaching materials. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/monitor-investing-news-and-produce-morning-macro-summaries.html monitor-investing-news-and-produce-morning-macro-summaries Meta Muse Personal Assistant Linked example of monitor investing news and produce morning macro summaries. User configured Meta Muse agent Alfred with ongoing tasks to monitor and summarize X posts on specific investing topics and watchlist names, transcribe and summarize podcasts, scan news and regulatory developments for those names, and compile a general morning macro and business news summary. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/monitor-construction-project-risk-and-alert-the-lead.html monitor-construction-project-risk-and-alert-the-lead n8n Sales & Marketing Schedules, budgets, buying, crews, weather, and site reports all feed an n8n/Gemini risk score. When one bottleneck dominates, the project lead gets the ping. The post skips hard KPIs. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/monitor-competitor-marketplace-prices.html monitor-competitor-marketplace-prices Grok Bot Productivity Community report: the poster says they use Grok Bot to periodically check product prices and competitor listings on a few online marketplaces. The bot browses those sites on its own, but some marketplaces interrupt it with CAPTCHAs; the poster says they currently have to use an API to solve them, and commenters suggested lower request rates, logged-in sessions, or routing the bot’s traffic through Someone’s own device. It works for ongoing marketplace price checks, but reliability breaks on sites that throw CAPTCHAs, covering a mouse-movement puzzle. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/monitor-and-book-a-hard-to-get-restaurant-table.html monitor-and-book-a-hard-to-get-restaurant-table Custom agent Shopping Documented elsewhere: user told the Odessia AI concierge that Don Angie was fully booked for Saturday the 24th and to watch for an opening for two. The agent monitored on its own, located a table at 4:12pm Tuesday, booked the 8:45pm slot without further input, and sent a text confirmation. The table was successfully booked and confirmed by text. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/monitor-resy-and-book-date-night-tables.html monitor-resy-and-book-date-night-tables Hermes Agent Productivity From the linked report, brian spun up a Hermes subagent inside his personal agent Hannah (which used Obsidian as the brain and Telegram as the interface) to monitor Resy for openings at a few favorite NYC restaurants and book tables for date nights. The subagent ran checks on its own with no rate limits configured. The subagent secured openings effectively until Resy suspended the account for hammering their system and violating TOS. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/monitor-reddit-draft-replies-and-schedule-posts.html monitor-reddit-draft-replies-and-schedule-posts Claude Productivity Observed in the wild: the commenter says they assembled a personal Claude agent as a social media manager powered by the Agent SDK plus a Claude Code subscription. In the thread and later follow-up, they say it keeps watch on Reddit, sketches replies, and schedules posts, powered by old posts for tone and account stats plus current-vs-previous-period comparisons for performance; sketches still wait for their approval before scheduling. They report it works within their Claude subscription if they route cheaper drafting to Haiku and final output to Sonnet. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/monitor-pc-memory-and-ask-before-closing-apps.html monitor-pc-memory-and-ask-before-closing-apps Grok Bot Productivity Documented elsewhere: the Grok bot monitored the PC and sent a text alert when RAM hit nearly 28GB with 22 Python processes and iCloud powered by 10GB. It listed processes eating memory, suggested what to close, asked permission before any action, and remembered the prior instruction to leave ChatGPT open. Someone got the text during lunch at a construction site and handled the response remotely without the computer running out of memory. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/monitor-defi-positions-and-alert-on-risky-pools.html monitor-defi-positions-and-alert-on-risky-pools Custom agent Productivity Observed in the wild: agents received access to Someone's full financial data across 37 chains and traditional accounts. They monitored spending and positions 24/7, with one agent dedicated to tracking DeFi risks and surfacing issues proactively. The alert identified a no longer remembered risky liquidity pool and prevented potential losses. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/mine-nasa-tess-data-for-an-exoplanet-signal.html mine-nasa-tess-data-for-an-exoplanet-signal Claude Code Research & Data An amateur used Claude Code to analyze NASA TESS light curves and flag a candidate signal around TIC 4206066 that later got follow-up observing time. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/migrate-toolchain-architecture-and-site-design.html migrate-toolchain-architecture-and-site-design Claude Code Media & Content According to the write-up, claude Code shows up in a write-up about migrate toolchain, architecture and site design. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/migrate-a-password-reset-flow-to-modern-libraries.html migrate-a-password-reset-flow-to-modern-libraries Claude Code Knowledge & Notes According to the write-up, powered by work API tokens, the developer first assembled a plan with the Claude Code harness, then had Claude Code with the latest Opus migrate a web app's password reset flow from legacy libraries and architecture to modern ones. He supervised closely, reviewing every proposal, and afterward spent significant time cleaning up the final output. Code was decent at small scale but architecturally off, and it drifted into unrelated changes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/migrate-a-legacy-product-stack.html migrate-a-legacy-product-stack Claude Code Productivity A published walkthrough shows claude Code shows up in a write-up about migrate a legacy product stack, with figures like 4, 2,, 15. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/migrate-a-saas-from-aws-to-digitalocean.html migrate-a-saas-from-aws-to-digitalocean Claude Code DevOps & Infra From the linked report, the developer asked Claude Code to build GitHub Actions workflows that bootstrap DigitalOcean: droplet, managed Postgres, Spaces, Docker setup. Claude read failed run logs with the gh CLI, located the cause, and patched the workflows. The builder says the migration took four hours with zero downtime, moving 29 tables and 3000+ rows. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/migrate-freshbooks-account-data-to-google-sheets.html migrate-freshbooks-account-data-to-google-sheets Perplexity Comet Productivity As described in the source, a commenter said they used Comet to move five years of account data from FreshBooks into Google Sheets because FreshBooks’ exports were inadequate. They said Comet’s AI assistant copied the data and verified it on its own while they worked on other tasks, and they also used it to navigate support on complex sites they did not know well. They described it as very helpful for people who live and work online. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/migrate-180-microservices-with-dual-cursor-agents.html migrate-180-microservices-with-dual-cursor-agents Cursor DevOps & Infra Brex built generation and validation Cursor agents that draft PRs, fix CI, and run integration tests so one engineer migrated 180 Micronaut services in a month. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/map-and-control-a-whole-smart-home.html map-and-control-a-whole-smart-home Custom agent Home & Family Community report: karpathy prompted the agent in chat with "Can you find my Sonos?". The agent scanned the home IP network, logged into the unprotected Sonos, web-searched and reverse-engineered its API endpoints, then repeated the process on lights, HVAC, shades, pool, spa, and security systems. The agent produced a unified control center for the full house and now executes high-level commands across all devices. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/manage-rentals-and-arrange-apartment-tours.html manage-rentals-and-arrange-apartment-tours Claude Productivity A published walkthrough shows claude in Chrome is utilized by a property manager's team for daily management tasks, along with a database that enables an AI to respond to inquiries and monitor schedules, aiding in arranging apartment visits. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/manage-projects-by-chat-through-openclaw.html manage-projects-by-chat-through-openclaw OpenClaw Personal Assistant A writer uses OpenClaw on a dedicated machine to create projects, plan, drive Claude Code, test and deploy entirely over messaging apps from a phone. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/manage-investments-taxes-and-credit.html manage-investments-taxes-and-credit Claude Code Finance Real-world thread: claude Code shows up in a write-up about manage investments, taxes and credit. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/manage-files-in-a-chosen-folder.html manage-files-in-a-chosen-folder Claude Code Productivity One practitioner notes that as described in the source: constructed an open-source desktop agent that functions within a designated folder, allowing users to read and write files and request changes before modifying them. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/manage-family-email-calendar-and-school-chats.html manage-family-email-calendar-and-school-chats Custom agent Email & Inbox Text or WhatsApp “Anna,” and the bot stays up overnight on the family inbox, shared calendar, and school chats. Pitch: the admin chores both parents keep dropping. Adoption claims are the vendor’s. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/manage-customer-enquiries-from-telegram.html manage-customer-enquiries-from-telegram n8n Personal Assistant According to the write-up, n8n workflow captures enquiries from email or forms, assigns a unique ID, auto-creates a ClickUp task, and pushes an instant Telegram notification. Owner replies naturally in Telegram; OpenAI then reads the reply and chooses to send a Gmail response, update status in Google Sheets, or close the thread. Enquiries stay in one place with no lost context or tool switching, letting the owner reply faster while staying in full control instead of full automation. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/manage-calendar-and-tasks-by-text.html manage-calendar-and-tasks-by-text Lindy Personal Assistant Case study takeaway: lindy shows up in a write-up about manage calendar and tasks by text. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/manage-calendar-and-email.html manage-calendar-and-email Custom agent Email & Inbox From the linked report, custom agent shows up in a write-up about manage calendar and email. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/manage-an-inbox-and-book-jobs-as-an-office-manager.html manage-an-inbox-and-book-jobs-as-an-office-manager Grok Bot Email & Inbox From the linked report, the post says Grok Bot acts as a persistent bot with its own computer, so people can sign it into work tools and hand off tasks that keep running even after their own machine is off. For the office-manager and inbox uses described there, the bot is given access to Gmail, Slack, ServiceTitan, and a client portal, then works through email, intakes work orders, plans capacity, and books jobs, only returning when a person needs to approve or handle exceptions. The thread gives no hard performance numbers or case-study results. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/manage-a-brokerage-account-in-plain-english.html manage-a-brokerage-account-in-plain-english Custom agent Productivity From the linked report, the AI agent on Coinbase, who is registered with the SEC, uses account history and complete portfolio context to suggest investment ideas from a plain English perspective. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/manage-x-follows-and-unfollows.html manage-x-follows-and-unfollows Perplexity Comet Productivity As described in the source, user @keyrunnftart gave Comet (via Perplexity) access to their X account. The agent unfollowed every account Someone was following, then began following accounts back on its own. All follows were removed, covering the reply The builder's account, before the agent switched to following others back. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/manage-nixos-server-configs.html manage-nixos-server-configs Claude Code DevOps & Infra Someone keeps their self-hosted NixOS machines in a config repo with Claude Code, but blocks nixos-rebuild switch and applies each reviewed diff by hand. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/manage-canvas-courses-in-plain-english.html manage-canvas-courses-in-plain-english Claude Code Productivity Linked example of manage Canvas courses in plain English. A non-developer educator used Claude Code over four months to build an MCP server in Python on FastMCP, starting from a 200-line proof of concept that listed courses. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/manage-10-social-media-accounts.html manage-10-social-media-accounts OpenClaw Productivity Case study takeaway: openClaw shows up in a write-up about manage 10 social media accounts, with figures like 10. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/make-music-videos-portfolio-sites-and-sorting-scripts.html make-music-videos-portfolio-sites-and-sorting-scripts Grok Bot Media & Content As described in the source, over one week the creator gave Grok Bot successive tasks: generate a complete music video from song through final edited clip; research Grok Imagine limits then output a reusable cinematic prompt engine; write full portfolio site code in HTML/CSS/JS with filters, mobile layout and live preview; write scripts that pulled 158 AI images/videos from X posts and auto-sorted them; plus code to cut/trim/stitch video clips and convert a theatre résumé into a career page. Someone directed the work and maintained separate agents for film, prompts and chief-of-staff roles. All requested outputs were delivered and replaced the studio, developer and assistant previously needed. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/make-auditable-rule-based-decisions.html make-auditable-rule-based-decisions Claude DevOps & Infra As described in the source, the Rete rule engine is responsible for determining loans, fraud, and triage cases, while an LLM and an MCP server are utilized for RAG over policy documents. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/make-a-dinner-reservation.html make-a-dinner-reservation Operator Knowledge & Notes A published walkthrough shows marily documented her initial attempt to book a dinner reservation powered by Operator, finding it to be slower than anticipated due to the absence of searching and detail entry. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/maintain-a-profitable-stripe-backed-app.html maintain-a-profitable-stripe-backed-app Replit Agent Sales & Marketing One practitioner notes that replit Agent shows up in a write-up about maintain a profitable Stripe-backed app, with figures like 20. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/maintain-a-home-media-library-and-handle-personal-projects.html maintain-a-home-media-library-and-handle-personal-projects Grok Bot Shopping Observed in the wild: one commenter said they use Grok Bot to run a home media library around Plex by doing the jobs they used to do manually. They said they asked it to standardize folders and filenames, sync and schedule backups, deduplicate, find missing posters, delete empty folders, and create custom thumbnails, descriptions, categories, and collections for films, TV, combat sports, documentaries, and creator videos; another said Grok Bot checked old email purchases to identify spare AliExpress parts and helped make a Tesla HUD that mirrors an S3XY Knob display onto a Tita HUD powered by an ESP32. The thread reports both setups working, but gives no hard metrics on time saved or reliability. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/lower-an-internet-bill-and-file-expense-reports.html lower-an-internet-bill-and-file-expense-reports Grok Bot Finance Documented elsewhere: one commenter said they Leaned on GrokBot to negotiate with Spectrum in a chat session. Their only stated step was logging in; after that, the bot handled the conversation by itself and got a lower rate. The Spectrum commenter said the bill ended up $20 lower per month. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/look-up-user-records-and-update-downstream-steps.html look-up-user-records-and-update-downstream-steps Zapier Agents Automation Case study takeaway: the poster set up three Zapier agents for a subscription product: one to email admins a current user list, one to add users, and one to remove them, powered by a Zapier Table as the customer database. The agents looked up customers by the email Stripe had written into the table, then later needed to search by another field to find linked subaccounts; the person tried both changing the Find Records operator and adding a lowercase-normalized formula column, but hit bugs and missing-field issues. It never became reliable: case-sensitive lookups, inability to set the needed operator when multiple lookup fields were required, unseen new columns, and draft/version errors blocked the workflow. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/log-categorize-and-file-invoices-for-bookkeeping.html log-categorize-and-file-invoices-for-bookkeeping Claude Finance A published walkthrough shows one commenter said they use Claude in Cowork for a similar recurring workflow: they drop receipts into a folder without renaming them, then every couple of weeks have Claude go through them, log each one into an expense tracker, categorize it, and rename each file with the date, vendor, and total. Cowork handled the renaming and moving the files into a logged folder. They said it works well for this kind of task, and another commenter described a similar PDF-to-expense-report process as a huge time saver. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/log-meals-and-medical-metrics-into-a-health-spreadsheet.html log-meals-and-medical-metrics-into-a-health-spreadsheet Claude Cowork Productivity Linked example of log meals and medical metrics into a health spreadsheet. The poster made a Claude Cowork “Health Related” folder on a desktop and asked Claude to create both a spreadsheet and a skill for tracking diet goals and medical metrics. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/local-multi-session-agent-with-parallel-task-graphs.html local-multi-session-agent-with-parallel-task-graphs Captain Claw Developer Tools A local agent runtime splits a large task into parallel sub-sessions across different model providers and resumes them from SQLite. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/list-a-quest-3-and-negotiate.html list-a-quest-3-and-negotiate Meta Muse Knowledge & Notes Real-world thread: meta Muse shows up in a write-up about list a Quest 3 and negotiate, with figures like 3. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/let-the-bot-email-customers-from-your-own-domain.html let-the-bot-email-customers-from-your-own-domain Grok Bot Email & Inbox As described in the source, the poster located Grok Bot’s assembled-in mail too limited for customer-facing use, so they stood up a mailbox on their own domain and connected it to Grok as a custom MCP connector. Because incoming mail does not wake the bot automatically, they also added a webhook that starts a Grok automation on each new message; they note the webhook had to use Grok’s signed whsec_ secret format, not a bearer token. It gave them a customer-facing address on their own domain and an inbox they could open themselves, while still letting the bot react to mail as it arrived. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/let-terminal-agents-make-phone-calls.html let-terminal-agents-make-phone-calls Make DevOps & Infra Documented elsewhere: the builder assembled a CLI tool powered by Twilio and GPT-live that gives terminal agents a voice for outbound calls. The agent operates independently on the line until it receives a question it cannot answer, at which point the included dashboard HUD prompts the person for an answer and redirects it back into the call without disconnecting. The result is a functional calling experience shown in a live QA and coding walkthrough video, with the agent handling calls and escalating unknowns to the person. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/let-an-agent-start-a-business-from-scratch.html let-an-agent-start-a-business-from-scratch Devin Software Development Toolbox for Devin: Ramp spend card, ElevenLabs voice number, AgentMail, Stripe, GitHub memory. Mandate: invent a business. Result after ~four weeks / 10,929 outbound calls: first revenue customer (Josh’s public run). Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/let-an-agent-extend-its-own-code-inside-a-docker-sandbox.html let-an-agent-extend-its-own-code-inside-a-docker-sandbox Claude DevOps & Infra From the linked report, miguel, assembled on Claude and the Agno framework, runs inside Docker with the project mounted read-only and only its own code directory writable. A host-side runner snapshots git, gives the agent its source plus the next capability, then validates changes with AST, JSON schema and import checks. It finished all 10 seed capabilities, wrote its own checklist, and reached 21+ capabilities. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/let-agents-phone-restaurants-to-book-tables.html let-agents-phone-restaurants-to-book-tables ChatGPT Shopping A published walkthrough shows jake stood up callforme.tel so agents powered by MCP (Claude, ChatGPT, etc.) can place calls. The agent dials the restaurant number, requests the booking, and when a callback number is requested mid-call the agent supplies one to keep the conversation going. No results or metrics are stated. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/let-agents-fill-out-web-forms-using-text-grid-page-rendering.html let-agents-fill-out-web-forms-using-text-grid-page-rendering Custom agent Productivity A published walkthrough shows the builder assembled TextWeb, which loads a page in headless Chromium and pulls out each visible element's position, text, and whether it's interactive. It maps these onto a character grid that keeps the on-screen layout. Each page comes out as roughly 2-5KB of text instead of a roughly 1MB screenshot, so no vision model is needed. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/let-agents-edit-word-documents-via-mcp.html let-agents-edit-word-documents-via-mcp Custom agent DevOps & Infra According to the write-up, the agent edits a clean HTML version of the Word file instead of raw OOXML. A small fine-tuned model (3–8B, LoRA) turns each changed block's HTML into OOXML. On the vendor's own 279-task benchmark, it was 2. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/let-agents-build-recipe-viewer-urls.html let-agents-build-recipe-viewer-urls ChatGPT Productivity 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. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/let-a-voice-receptionist-schedule-appointments-via-mcp.html let-a-voice-receptionist-schedule-appointments-via-mcp Custom agent DevOps & Infra As described in the source, the commenter's team runs a custom MCP server exposing tools such as list_appointments, schedule_appointment and cancel_appointment against their CRM. An ElevenLabs voice agent, which covers speech-to-text, the LLM and text-to-speech, connects to it over a Twilio phone line. The source is a short explanatory comment and reports no results, numbers or shortcomings. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/let-claude-read-apple-health-and-fitbit-data-via-mcp.html let-claude-read-apple-health-and-fitbit-data-via-mcp Claude Code DevOps & Infra Claude Code covered let Claude read Apple Health and Fitbit data via MCP. The poster used a hosted MCP connector instead of a self-hosted server. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/let-claude-buy-a-game-autonomously.html let-claude-buy-a-game-autonomously Claude Shopping Community report: the poster says they assembled payment infrastructure with a few custom MCPs so Claude could shop for a game. In the demo, Claude searched 10,000+ games, located Civilization III Complete for $0.99, authorized payment through x402 with a human confirmation step, settled funds through an MCP server with a digital wallet, and then received the license key. The run took 60 seconds total with 0 clicks, broken out as 10 seconds for search, 5 for authorization, 30 for settlement, and 15 for fulfillment. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/let-ai-models-trade-stocks-autonomously-with-1k-each.html let-ai-models-trade-stocks-autonomously-with-1k-each Gemini Productivity Linked example of let AI models trade stocks autonomously with $1k each. The poster set up four paper-trading portfolios with $1,000 each on Alpaca and ran the same weekday pre-market prompt against ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity with Deep Research enabled. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/let-ai-agents-search-a-store-build-carts-and-prep-checkout.html let-ai-agents-search-a-store-build-carts-and-prep-checkout Claude Shopping Documented elsewhere: the post is a pitch rather than a walkthrough: The builder says they can make ecommerce sites “agentic commerce ready” so ChatGPT users can discover products through Vendable. The concrete mechanics come from a seller’s comment, which says their store exposes its own MCP server so Claude or ChatGPT agents can search the catalog, create a custom tee, build a cart, and start checkout, with payment completed on the store site. The thread gives no performance numbers or rollout results. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/let-ai-agents-file-employment-tax-returns.html let-ai-agents-file-employment-tax-returns Custom agent Finance A published walkthrough shows the MCP server utilized by agents for tax returns, including employment forms 941 and 940, is currently in development but not yet live and is classified as a tool call to the IRS. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/let-ai-agents-design-in-figma.html let-ai-agents-design-in-figma Custom agent Design & Creative Community report: the figma-use CLI connects to the Figma desktop app over Chrome DevTools Protocol and runs commands through Figma's Plugin API. Agents either issue commands one at a time or pipe JSX into a render command. The demos show button components and a Tailwind UI calendar. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/learn-personal-scripts-from-a-tools-folder.html learn-personal-scripts-from-a-tools-folder Claude Cowork Email & Inbox Case study takeaway: tomasz Tunguz pointed Claude Cowork at a local folder holding dozens of personal scripts he had assembled over a year for email, CRM updates, startup research, and drafting replies. Cowork read the folder, parsed each script, and added the logic to its memory across eleven steps so the workflows ran in the Cowork interface instead of the terminal. The same capabilities now worked in the new interface with no loss of function. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/keep-company-books.html keep-company-books Claude Code Finance According to the write-up, claude Code and Codex, which were used to keep receipts, bank rows, entries, and detect a VAT error, were employed to keep books for various Swedish companies. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/keep-coding-agents-running-autonomously-for-long-stretches.html keep-coding-agents-running-autonomously-for-long-stretches Cursor Software Development Documented elsewhere: cursor ran hundreds of concurrent agents on one project. Flat self-coordination through a shared file with locks, then optimistic concurrency, failed. A browser assembled from scratch ran close to a week and produced over 1 million lines across 1,000 files. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/jira-issues-from-slack-threads-at-rippling.html jira-issues-from-slack-threads-at-rippling Cursor Productivity Besides the dashboard cron, Rippling engineers trigger Cursor automations that turn Slack threads into Jira issues and Confluence summaries. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/invoices-filed-the-moment-they-arrive.html invoices-filed-the-moment-they-arrive n8n Finance An automation reads invoice PDFs or photos from email, extracts key fields, files them in Drive with consistent names and logs them in a sheet. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/invoice-extraction-with-validation-checkpoints.html invoice-extraction-with-validation-checkpoints n8n Finance An n8n workflow enforces a schema on AI-extracted invoice data, checks formats and nulls, and waits for human sign-off before finalizing. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/investigate-papers-overnight.html investigate-papers-overnight Grok Bot Research & Data A published walkthrough shows as described in the source: working as people sleep, Grok Bot jobs are responsible for reading new papers, extract claims, rerun analyses, and scan sources. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/investigate-market-moves-and-alerts.html investigate-market-moves-and-alerts Claude Research & Data Case study takeaway: claude shows up in a write-up about investigate market moves and alerts. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/investigate-broken-builds-and-merge-fixes.html investigate-broken-builds-and-merge-fixes OpenClaw Software Development As described in the source, androidclaw is a persistent OpenClaw agent at OpenAI. It works across company context, Git, GitHub and logging systems. Marsan said it has been well-adopted internally and called tracing issues and publishing fixes "Kinda game changing. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/index-a-newsletter-archive-and-repurpose-writing.html index-a-newsletter-archive-and-repurpose-writing Claude Code Email & Inbox Real-world thread: the guide says Casey Newton of Platformer indexed 818 newsletter editions into a searchable archive. Darren Rowse audited about 1,000 notes in an Obsidian vault, which Claude Code reads as plain markdown folders. Newton's index took under 30 minutes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/inbox-triage-on-a-schedule.html inbox-triage-on-a-schedule Clor Email & Inbox A background agent re-reads incoming mail every few minutes, labels spam, rescues misfiled messages and stars threads awaiting a reply. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/improve-screenshot-quality-for-a-newsletter.html improve-screenshot-quality-for-a-newsletter Claude Code Email & Inbox Screenshots for a post are sharpened and cleaned up by Claude Code before publishing. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/hunt-jobs-tailor-resumes-and-apply-automatically.html hunt-jobs-tailor-resumes-and-apply-automatically Devin Productivity As described in the source, user described desired job type, schedule and pay to the Resume bot at x.ai. The bot searched listings, ranked them by fit, drafted tailored resumes for top matches, and tracked applicant status. Secured 3 interviews and 1 job offer with start date the following week that aligned with existing schedule and finances. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/hunt-high-value-pok-mon-cards-on-ebay-overnight.html hunt-high-value-pok-mon-cards-on-ebay-overnight Codex Productivity Community report: alessio Finelli gave the Codex agent a sparse skill file with rules on target cards, batch size of 5, and grading companies. The agent browses eBay listings on its own, pulls PSA certificate numbers, cross-references known prices, and flags underpriced high-value cards. It works as his power buyer, surfacing underpriced cards before others see them. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/hunt-business-logic-flaws-and-open-fix-prs.html hunt-business-logic-flaws-and-open-fix-prs Devin Software Development As described in the source, parallel agents each take a segment of the codebase and reason across files for business-logic flaws, chained auth bypasses and cross-service exploit paths. Devin then combines the findings into full attack paths and tries to reproduce each one in an isolated sandbox. On Cognition's own 50-vulnerability benchmark, Devin Security scored 72% recall at $90. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/hunt-github-repos-that-leak-secrets-for-leads.html hunt-github-repos-that-leak-secrets-for-leads Claude Code Software Development A privacy-product founder used Claude Code to search public GitHub for repos that expose sensitive values, then scored them as leads for a data-masking tool. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/hotel-search-with-a-browser-operator-agent.html hotel-search-with-a-browser-operator-agent ChatGPT Agent Travel & Booking A reviewer tested OpenAI Operator on multi-step hotel lookups with budget and date constraints, noting shallow results but real form interaction. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/homelab-managed-with-an-ai-assistant.html homelab-managed-with-an-ai-assistant Claude Code Personal Assistant A homelabber used AI to manage infrastructure-as-code, containers and troubleshooting across a home server setup. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/have-copilot-coding-agent-write-and-push-code.html have-copilot-coding-agent-write-and-push-code GitHub Copilot Software Development From the linked report, this is a GitHub community feedback thread on the Copilot coding agent, not a single walkthrough. The original poster assigned issues to the agent and watched it work. The original poster located the agent good at context and code, but its first PRs were weak without instructions, and it couldn't read attachments or org PR links. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/have-claude-implement-most-of-a-day-job-x27-s-work.html have-claude-implement-most-of-a-day-job-x27-s-work Claude Productivity A published walkthrough shows provides Claude with work responsibilities and ensures that the majority of the functionality is executed, but the final 10% is still the most demanding. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/have-claude-collect-names-from-a-wikipedia-page-into-a-file.html have-claude-collect-names-from-a-wikipedia-page-into-a-file Claude computer use DevOps & Infra Community report: the poster Leaned on Claude Computer Use to control Firefox, go to Wikipedia, search for a topic, then identify all the names on the page and save them into a text file. From the comments, they ran Anthropic’s provided Docker image locally with their API key, and the task completed in about a minute with no manual editing described. It seemed to work for this simple extraction task. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/handoff-notes-between-claude-code-and-cursor.html handoff-notes-between-claude-code-and-cursor Claude Code Knowledge & Notes A developer built a /handoff slash command that posts structured status to a relay so Claude Code and Cursor can pick up each other's work cleanly. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/handle-sales-and-support-calls.html handle-sales-and-support-calls Custom agent Sales & Marketing One practitioner notes that custom agent shows up in a write-up about handle sales and support calls. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/handle-routine-email-tasks-and-follow-up-reminders.html handle-routine-email-tasks-and-follow-up-reminders n8n Email & Inbox One practitioner notes that constructed an n8n personal assistant that performs roughly 70% of daily email tasks and alerts others when a task is in progress, following addressing initial glitches. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/handle-restaurant-reservations-over-whatsapp.html handle-restaurant-reservations-over-whatsapp Custom agent Shopping Case study takeaway: created a WhatsApp representative for a nearby eatery that keeps watch on availability, responds to inquiries, and authenticates reservations, with only one paying patron so far. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/handle-meal-planning-daily-briefs-errands-and-household-tasks.html handle-meal-planning-daily-briefs-errands-and-household-tasks Custom agent Email & Inbox A published walkthrough shows custom agent shows up in a write-up about handle meal planning, daily briefs, errands and household tasks. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/handle-incoming-emails.html handle-incoming-emails Grok Bot Email & Inbox Case study takeaway: grok Bot shows up in a write-up about handle incoming emails. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/handle-household-tasks-and-reminders.html handle-household-tasks-and-reminders Custom agent Home & Family Case study takeaway: user speaks tasks like booking dentist appointments or school pickups directly to Nori, which captures them and adds to the family calendar automatically. Nori uses Call Alert to phone Someone about reminders instead of sending notifications, and shares all updates across family members' calendars without further input. User reports no more forgotten tasks, double-bookings, or mental clutter, and no longer tracks everything manually. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/handle-hotel-booking-and-directions-on-a-business-trip.html handle-hotel-booking-and-directions-on-a-business-trip Gemini Travel & Booking On a messy international work trip, Gemini picked a policy-compliant last-minute Heathrow layover hotel and walked someone from gate through immigration and trains, later navigating them to a Swiss venue from landmark descriptions. A few fabrications showed up but were caught. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/handle-family-errands-and-recipe-sorting.html handle-family-errands-and-recipe-sorting Codex Home & Family Observed in the wild: Codex was pointed at handle family errands and recipe sorting. a communications professional arranged for her son's doctor to receive a prescription via Codex and organize 240 recipes into an index, spreadsheet, and Drive folder, with 62 family-fit ones included. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/handle-an-ikea-return-end-to-end.html handle-an-ikea-return-end-to-end Meta Muse Shopping Documented elsewhere: someone asked Muse to handle an IKEA return. Muse contacted support and booked the pickup. The pickup arrived at the door. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/handle-shopify-support-tickets-orders-and-refunds.html handle-shopify-support-tickets-orders-and-refunds Claude Shopping Community report: merchants install the Supportify app, which syncs with Shopify, and connect their FAQ, shipping and return portal, and channels (chat, email, Instagram, Facebook). The agent, powered by Claude and GPT, then covers tickets itself. The listing gives no resolution rates or savings. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/hand-off-coding-sessions-between-agent-accounts-at-usage-limits.html hand-off-coding-sessions-between-agent-accounts-at-usage-limits Codex Software Development Community report: codex shows up in a write-up about hand off coding sessions between agent accounts at usage limits. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/hand-lead-gen-agency-tasks-to-an-agent-instead-of-a-va.html hand-lead-gen-agency-tasks-to-an-agent-instead-of-a-va ChatGPT Agent Sales & Marketing Real-world thread: the poster runs a lead-gen agency and said they tried ChatGPT agent mode after a YouTube video, then saw it handle some work they normally pay a VA to do. In the thread, they do not spell out the exact task flow; instead they ask how to make repeatable specialist setups, such as separate agents for ad copy, creative, competitor research, or a VA-style role, and whether that means agent mode, custom GPTs, or Claude projects. The concrete outcome stated is only that ChatGPT agent mode handled some existing VA work well enough to push them toward powered by agents for more tasks. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/hand-everyday-errands-to-a-local-agent.html hand-everyday-errands-to-a-local-agent Custom agent Email & Inbox Community report: the commenter runs a local agent they trust not to share conversations, and uses it like a search engine in place of a browser. They hand it errands: plan flights, a hotel and sights for a conference talk, convert downloaded FLAC music to OGG for a player, find DRM-free epubs for owned books, and make a tweakable OpenSCAD holder from a photo beside a tape measure. The comment only lists use cases. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/hand-a-day-of-busywork-to-cowork.html hand-a-day-of-busywork-to-cowork Claude Cowork Knowledge & Notes As described in the source, the builder, an architect, described outcomes to Cowork in the Claude desktop app and approved its plan before it ran. Tasks were sorting a 200-plus-file folder (he changed one rule to keep originals), filling a weekly report template from source files, and turning messy notes and links into a structured draft. The folder came back tidy with a duplicates note. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/guide-a-music-video-project-from-concept-to-deliverables.html guide-a-music-video-project-from-concept-to-deliverables Hermes Agent Media & Content As described in the source, you copy the skill folder into the Hermes skills directory and reload. On first run the agent asks for your projects root folder, channel name and music style, and can create the folder structure. The source reports no results or example output. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/grow-an-email-list.html grow-an-email-list Hermes Agent Email & Inbox One practitioner notes that hermes Agent shows up in a write-up about grow an email list, with figures like 1,000, 80. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/group-outdated-packages-by-upgrade-difficulty.html group-outdated-packages-by-upgrade-difficulty Cursor Software Development Before a big dependency upgrade, Kent asked Cursor to list every outdated package grouped into easy, medium and hard buckets. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/grocery-order-built-from-purchase-history.html grocery-order-built-from-purchase-history Custom agent Shopping An agent logs into a supermarket site, uses past orders and current deals to propose meals, and fills the basket for review. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/grade-papers-and-build-lessons.html grade-papers-and-build-lessons Claude Cowork Research & Data Classroom workload that used to eat evenings—lesson outlines, paper stacks, slide decks, grade analytics—now gets a big assist from Claude Cowork, according to one teacher’s write-up. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/grade-papers-and-build-lesson-plans-for-teachers.html grade-papers-and-build-lesson-plans-for-teachers ChatGPT Research & Data Linked example of grade papers and build lesson plans for teachers. The builder assembled a proof-of-concept app called Archimedes, described as a React and Flask app that used ChatGPT across school levels from elementary through doctorate. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/give-coding-agents-git-native-persistent-memory.html give-coding-agents-git-native-persistent-memory Custom agent Software Development Documented elsewhere: you build a Go binary, then run a bootstrap command on a project. It creates a knowledge/ folder of Markdown files with YAML frontmatter, an agent skill, and an AGENTS.md. The README claims search under 300µs, about 4ms to validate 50+ concepts, and an 80% token reduction. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/give-coding-agents-compiler-accurate-find-usages-for-c.html give-coding-agents-compiler-accurate-find-usages-for-c Custom agent Software Development Community report: you install a .NET global tool and run it on a .sln or .csproj. It loads the project through MSBuild and asks Roslyn to resolve every symbol. The README's example is an internal method whose single compiler-resolved caller was a test, which shows how test-only usage can be spotted. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/give-an-agent-a-phone-number-to-make-and-answer-calls.html give-an-agent-a-phone-number-to-make-and-answer-calls Hermes Agent Productivity A published walkthrough shows david Ondrej gave his Hermes Agent a phone number. The agent afterward put together calls, answered calls, and ran tasks on its own as he slept. The agent performed the calls and tasks without further input from him. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/give-an-ai-its-own-inbox-to-act-as-personal-assistant.html give-an-ai-its-own-inbox-to-act-as-personal-assistant ChatGPT Email & Inbox From the linked report, the poster connected two mail accounts to ChatGPT: a dedicated Outlook inbox for the AI and their personal Gmail separately. In chat, they could tell it things like emailing a reminder next Friday at 6 pm, and ChatGPT drafted the message from the Outlook account to Gmail and queued it with delayed delivery; the person just issued the request and checked the result. It worked in their test: a reminder requested for one hour later was booked in Outlook and turned the AI inbox into a simple reminder system. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/give-agents-a-multi-engine-math-kernel-via-mcp.html give-agents-a-multi-engine-math-kernel-via-mcp Custom agent DevOps & Infra Real-world thread: mathKernel runs as an MCP server (mathkernel-mcp, stdio, 162 math_ tools). The model parses and plans, and the kernel does the computing across SymPy, Z3, Lean, mpmath and numba/CUDA. The source gives no benchmark or outcome numbers. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/give-a-teacher-a-claude-code-workspace-for-lessons-and-reports.html give-a-teacher-a-claude-code-workspace-for-lessons-and-reports Claude Code Home & Family Community report: claude Code shows up in a write-up about give a teacher a Claude Code workspace for lessons and reports. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/give-a-coding-agent-a-paper-corpus-to-find-new-techniques.html give-a-coding-agent-a-paper-corpus-to-find-new-techniques Claude Code Software Development Claude Code covered give a coding agent a paper corpus to find new techniques. The poster ran two identical Claude Code agents on the same job: optimize a small language model. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/get-upcoming-events-and-control-routines.html get-upcoming-events-and-control-routines Alexa+ Productivity From the linked report, alexa+ shows up in a write-up about get upcoming events and control routines. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/get-status-match-and-upgrade-certificates-then-book-flight.html get-status-match-and-upgrade-certificates-then-book-flight Dots Travel & Booking Four lie-flat upgrade certs plus a status match landed in John’s inbox because his Dot chased the forms, watched for confirmation mail, and read the terms before buying the ticket—something he admits he would have ignored. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/get-a-second-opinion-on-an-mri.html get-a-second-opinion-on-an-mri Claude Code Productivity Documented elsewhere: the builder gave Claude Code (Opus 4.8, xhigh) a roughly 266 MB DICOM export of a shoulder MRI, let it install packages, and told it only the symptom (2–3 weeks of right shoulder pain). It planned and read the scans for about an hour. Opus located an intact tendon, while the doctor described a Grade III partial tear. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/get-a-billing-dispute-refunded-by-a-support-agent.html get-a-billing-dispute-refunded-by-a-support-agent Custom agent Finance Case study takeaway: the company's AI agent produced and issued a refund to a customer who had a dispute with an incorrect Vercel bill. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/get-microsoft-office-running-on-linux-via-wine.html get-microsoft-office-running-on-linux-via-wine Claude Code Knowledge & Notes One practitioner notes that the repo is a Nix flake that runs click-to-run Microsoft 365 through umu-launcher and GE-Proton instead of stock Wine. Each blocker was located by reading Wine and Click-to-Run logs and fixed with a small shim DLL or registry change. The full suite installs and Word starts, and sign-in with a personal account works. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/generate-weekly-leadership-reports-and-handle-feature-requests.html generate-weekly-leadership-reports-and-handle-feature-requests Zapier Agents Automation Zapier’s pattern here is a boss-agent: one helper turns Jira history into the Monday leadership pack; another answers “/feature” style Slack asks. Humans only review the outputs. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/generate-updated-research-reports-on-followed-companies.html generate-updated-research-reports-on-followed-companies Custom agent Research & Data As described in the source, the poster said they assembled a stock-research agent on top of paid real-time market-data subscriptions because ChatGPT’s answers were too dated for investing. In comments, they said it uses Polygon real-time stocks and options data, can run code on that data to answer screening-style requests like finding today’s inside-day patterns, and is available as a CLI plus a free web version; people still had to test outputs and report mistakes. The reported benefit was fresher research and the ability to answer data-driven trading queries ChatGPT alone could not. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/generate-structured-company-research-reports.html generate-structured-company-research-reports Custom agent Research & Data A published walkthrough shows dharmesh assembled the agent at companyresearch.ai and gave it access to multiple paid and proprietary data sources. The agent aggregates firmographics, top executives, web traffic, search marketing data, and G2 looks over into one structured report when Someone enters any company name. Reports cover revenue multiples and revenue per employee for public companies. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/generate-parametric-cad-models-from-a-prompt.html generate-parametric-cad-models-from-a-prompt Claude Media & Content Case study takeaway: you describe a part in plain English, optionally with reference images. The app uses Claude to write OpenSCAD code, which runs in the browser through WebAssembly and shows a live Three.js preview. The README's benchmark gallery shows single prompts producing parametric models, from knurled knobs and threaded bolts to a V8 engine with 22 dimension controls. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/generate-monthly-marketing-reports-and-buying-intent-replies.html generate-monthly-marketing-reports-and-buying-intent-replies Claude Sales & Marketing As described in the source, one commenter said they upload SEO, social, GA4, and GSC reports into Claude each month and give it substantial business context so it can turn those inputs into a monthly update report, saving them analysis and interpretation time. Another said they monitor Reddit, Quora, and X for buying-intent threads, then have Claude draft tone-matched replies for human review before posting. The thread reports clear time savings rather than hard business metrics: one person said monthly reporting saves them hours, and another cut community-response work from 3–4 hours to about 20 minutes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/generate-live-coding-music.html generate-live-coding-music Claude Code Software Development Case study takeaway: rearranged it for live performance, with as described in the source: claude crafted the code for the Strudel music based on a style description and fixed it by hand. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/generate-invoices-automatically-from-a-template.html generate-invoices-automatically-from-a-template Make Finance Linked example of generate invoices automatically from a template. The post says the automation was assembled in Make.com with Google Workspace. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/generate-investment-analysis-from-live-market-data.html generate-investment-analysis-from-live-market-data Claude Code Productivity As described in the source, the poster used Claude Code CLI to build a personal wealth advisor that pulled live market data, macro indicators and news into one workflow, then fed it to Claude with a CFA-style system prompt. In comments, they say a memory system let it recall and revisit earlier calls from weeks prior, which improved analysis quality; the person assembled the setup and used Claude’s output rather than handing decisions over fully. They say the goal was analysis beyond generic stock tips, but the thread excerpt gives no performance numbers or verified investing results. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/generate-internal-dashboards-and-data-migration-scripts.html generate-internal-dashboards-and-data-migration-scripts Devin Productivity Documented elsewhere: a senior backend engineer at a mid-stage SaaS startup, quoted from an April 2025 Hacker News thread, says the team gives Devin internal dashboards and data migration scripts. Devin works asynchronously in a sandbox, usually taking tasks from Slack or a ticket, and the team treats what it produces as a working draft. The engineer says it reliably saves about four hours of boilerplate. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/generate-customer-service-agents-from-a-url-that-book-appointments.html generate-customer-service-agents-from-a-url-that-book-appointments Custom agent Sales & Marketing As described in the source, custom agent shows up in a write-up about generate customer-service agents from a URL that book appointments. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/generate-and-send-invoice-pdfs-for-approval.html generate-and-send-invoice-pdfs-for-approval Custom agent Finance One practitioner notes that user issues a command like "Bill them for $ amount for (work performed, reimbursements, etc)". The agent produces the invoice PDF on its own and emails it to Someone. The workflow runs as described with no described metrics or shortfalls. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/generate-ads-from-a-website-url.html generate-ads-from-a-website-url Custom agent Design & Creative According to the write-up, user gave the Arcads agent one website URL plus one sentence. The agent read the site to learn the brand, pulled existing assets, generated ad ideas on its own, then produced static ads and AI UGC videos without further input. Output quality was surprisingly good. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/generate-ad-copy-variants-and-scrape-competitor-ads.html generate-ad-copy-variants-and-scrape-competitor-ads Claude Software Development Linked example of generate ad-copy variants and scrape competitor ads. The commenter said they used the Claude API through Google Apps Script to generate ad-copy variants, with a workflow that produced 10 variants in about 30 seconds instead of a 30-minute brainstorm. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/generate-ad-variations-and-pull-campaign-data-for-growth-marketing.html generate-ad-variations-and-pull-campaign-data-for-growth-marketing Claude Code Sales & Marketing Documented elsewhere: claude Code shows up in a write-up about generate ad variations and pull campaign data for growth marketing. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/generate-a-spoken-daily-news-bulletin-at-home.html generate-a-spoken-daily-news-bulletin-at-home ChatGPT Personal Assistant One practitioner notes that the poster Leaned on n8n to run a 6:30 a.m. workflow that asked Perplexity for factual stories from a fixed list of outlets, cleaned that output, then had ChatGPT rewrite it as a short spoken script. It replaced the poster’s Alexa flash briefing with a calmer custom bulletin and they shared a sample audio result, but they said it still needed better pauses and maybe a different voice. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/generate-a-robot-arm-cad-model-from-one-prompt.html generate-a-robot-arm-cad-model-from-one-prompt Codex Productivity Community report: jake Fitzgerald installed the open source text-to-cad skill package in Codex, running GPT 5.5. The agent writes build123d Python scripts, regenerates the geometry locally, and outputs STEP parts plus a URDF. The arm's URDF, kinematics, GUI and STEP assembly were all generated, except the gripper. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/generate-a-hiring-pack-from-existing-notion-docs.html generate-a-hiring-pack-from-existing-notion-docs Claude Code Knowledge & Notes A PM at Clay gave Claude Code internal hiring Notion pages and peer JDs; it produced a job description, hiring plan, interview plan and rubric for a new role. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/generate-a-daily-personalized-trading-research-report-from-brokerage-data.html generate-a-daily-personalized-trading-research-report-from-brokerage-data Claude Research & Data As described in the source, claude shows up in a write-up about generate a daily personalized trading research report from brokerage data. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/generate-lego-cad-models-in-ldraw.html generate-lego-cad-models-in-ldraw ChatGPT Shopping Documented elsewhere: the creation of LDraw source files, which are then converted into LEGO CAD models, is facilitated by ChatGPT and Claude agents through a toolset and docs, and is packaged as a dockerized web application. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/follow-an-account-and-comment-on-linkedin.html follow-an-account-and-comment-on-linkedin Perplexity Comet Business & Startups From the linked report, the agent received access to Someone's LinkedIn account. It followed the Perplexity CEO, located a specific post, and added a comment underneath, completing the sequence on its own in one attempt while displaying its reasoning before each action. It succeeded on the first try after the upgrade that improved reliability and raised internal test scores by 23%. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/flag-risks-in-a-50-page-contract-before-signing.html flag-risks-in-a-50-page-contract-before-signing Claude Productivity Case study takeaway: the poster uploaded a 50-page contract PDF to Claude and used a prompt asking it to read the whole document, explain in plain English what they were agreeing to, list obligations and risks, say what a lawyer would flag as unusual or negotiable, and then name the three points to push back on hardest. Claude surfaced buried clauses, and the poster says a person should still bring a lawyer in for anything serious. It flagged three issues the poster says they would have missed, covering an auto-renewal near the end and a liability term they say was not standard. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/flag-churn-and-expansion-signals-and-draft-support-replies.html flag-churn-and-expansion-signals-and-draft-support-replies Zapier Agents Automation As described in the source, healthie assembled a Zapier agent that checks Salesforce, HubSpot, Vitally and Help Scout every Monday for early churn or expansion signals. It posts a prioritized Slack summary for support and product leads to act on. Erewhon says 70% of sketches go out unchanged, saving about 1,500 labor hours a year across 10 stores. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/fix-wrong-day-flight-reservations-between-bots.html fix-wrong-day-flight-reservations-between-bots Custom agent Travel & Booking According to the write-up, the speaking-gig agent noticed that flight reservations for upcoming speeches were on the wrong days. It contacted Someone to report the issue and asked permission to involve the separate travel bot. All reservations were updated without further input from Someone. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/fix-app-bugs-harden-security-and-ship-fixes-autonomously.html fix-app-bugs-harden-security-and-ship-fixes-autonomously Hermes Agent Software Development Omar’s health app got a Hermes babysitter during work hours: triage priority bugs, fence personal browser logins away from bots, sketch a tax-refund promo banner, promote patches only after green health checks. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/fix-and-resubmit-a-rejected-app-remotely.html fix-and-resubmit-a-rejected-app-remotely Dots Software Development Dots covered fix and resubmit a rejected app remotely. User asked their dot to investigate the rejected app submission. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/fix-a-broken-delete-button-in-a-github-repo.html fix-a-broken-delete-button-in-a-github-repo Gemini Software Development Community report: after giving Jules access to the GitHub repo, The builder picked the repo and branch and asked it to fix the broken Delete button. The requirements were to match the Delete button in another module and to disable deletion after two hours. Jules produced the code changes and the branch appeared in GitHub, and it wrote test cases that nobody asked for. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/fix-a-broken-api-website.html fix-a-broken-api-website Claude Cowork Software Development A published walkthrough shows the Reddit post says Someone used Claude Cowork on their laptop for technical tasks and let it inspect and control work directly, describing it as like a competent IT person remote-controlling the computer. For this case, they say it went into the code of their API website and fixed issues manually after Replit’s agent kept breaking simple additions and not understanding the site. The stated result was that the API website got fixed after repeated problems with the Replit agent. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/fix-a-booking-made-on-the-wrong-date.html fix-a-booking-made-on-the-wrong-date Dots Travel & Booking Case study takeaway: dot had access to David's travel bookings for an upcoming Europe trip. It proactively scanned the details, identified the Paris to Barcelona flight on the incorrect date, and updated the booking to the correct dates on its own. The booking was changed to the right dates. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/fix-shopify-seo-and-find-ad-waste.html fix-shopify-seo-and-find-ad-waste Claude Sales & Marketing According to the write-up, claude shows up in a write-up about fix Shopify SEO and find ad waste, with figures like 95,. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/five-annoying-tasks-handed-to-an-agent.html five-annoying-tasks-handed-to-an-agent ChatGPT Agent Productivity A reviewer ran a browser agent through five everyday tasks and reported which ones it completed and which needed help. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/finish-abandoned-side-projects-with-agents.html finish-abandoned-side-projects-with-agents Claude Code Software Development HN readers describe finally finishing long-backlog personal tools—music players, trackers, niche utilities—because agents remove the boring glue work. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-web-design-prospects.html find-web-design-prospects ChatGPT Media & Content As described in the source, chatGPT shows up in a write-up about find web design prospects. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-weak-web-presence-businesses-and-pitch-them.html find-weak-web-presence-businesses-and-pitch-them Custom agent Sales & Marketing From the linked report, custom agent shows up in a write-up about find weak-web-presence businesses and pitch them. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-vegetarian-restaurants-and-save-notes-via-computer-use.html find-vegetarian-restaurants-and-save-notes-via-computer-use Claude computer use Knowledge & Notes Documented elsewhere: following Anthropic's setup instructions, The builder installed Docker, stood up a Claude API key, ran one Terminal command and opened the web app. They gave Claude the restaurant task with Google already open. Setup worked first time and the text file was stood up. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-unclaimed-money-and-start-the-claim.html find-unclaimed-money-and-start-the-claim Meta Muse Finance Community report: nick Grous, an investment analyst at ARK Invest, asked Meta's Muse agent to search the internet for money that might belong to him. Muse returned a list of unclaimed property and funds under his name and helped complete much of the paperwork. Muse located more than $1,500 in about five minutes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-unclaimed-money-across-old-addresses.html find-unclaimed-money-across-old-addresses Custom agent Productivity As described in the source, the agent received Someone's list of old addresses. It searched unclaimed-money databases across them, locating an extra $500 plus US amounts from prior residence there. The agent described the $500 discovery and finished filling forms plus ID prep. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-trending-articles-and-generate-linkedin-post-variations.html find-trending-articles-and-generate-linkedin-post-variations Operator Shopping A published walkthrough shows in the tutorial, Operator was asked to create 10 LinkedIn post variations from eCommerce news. It searched Google for trending eCommerce articles and picked one about digital shopping trends. Operator produced 10 different LinkedIn posts from the chosen article. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-target-businesses.html find-target-businesses Manus Productivity Documented elsewhere: manus shows up in a write-up about find target businesses. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-stale-commercial-listings-and-email-brokers.html find-stale-commercial-listings-and-email-brokers Hermes Agent Email & Inbox Documented elsewhere: the Hermes bot scrapes every commercial lease listing in real time. It filters by days on market, suite sqft, and zoning fit; pulls permitted-use lists from city zoning code; renders 12 AI walkthroughs of each empty suite as different tenants; calculates broker commission plus expected 5-year lease value; then sends a personalized email containing the walkthroughs. The post states the system enables brokers to close $15k+ commissions but reports no actual results, metrics, or outcomes achieved. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-outperforming-youtube-videos-and-newsletter-advertisers.html find-outperforming-youtube-videos-and-newsletter-advertisers Manus Email & Inbox Observed in the wild: the builder ran two research tasks in Manus at the same time. One had it browse YouTube for AI-tool videos from the last month that beat their channel size on views. Manus returned a trends summary and a spreadsheet of advertisers with ad copy and contact details. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-local-pilot-customers-from-the-codebase.html find-local-pilot-customers-from-the-codebase Claude Code Software Development A builder asked Claude Code to inspect their app source, identify what it does, and name the top five nearby companies that would make good pilots. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-local-business-leads-and-send-personalized-cold-emails.html find-local-business-leads-and-send-personalized-cold-emails n8n Automation One practitioner notes that the first takes a neighborhood and industry, scrapes Google Maps through Bright Data, and saves the raw leads to Google Sheets for review. The second locates each company's Owler profile through a Google Search dataset and scrapes it. The builder reports over 5000 leads a day at a 98% success rate and better response rates than manual research. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-forgotten-money-and-negotiate-insurance-refunds.html find-forgotten-money-and-negotiate-insurance-refunds Meta Muse Finance From the linked report, eric Allen asked Meta's Muse agent to search state government databases for unclaimed money, and it ran the scan for his wife too. Separately, Frank Chien had Muse phone his insurer, Amtrust, to cancel a workers comp policy and get a refund. Allen's scan took six minutes and located about $730 in store credit, a $272 refund and about $800 for his wife. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-flight-info-and-book-an-uber.html find-flight-info-and-book-an-uber Grok Bot Travel & Booking A published walkthrough shows someone shared travel details with Grok. While Someone showered, the agent located the flight information on its own and booked an Uber ride without further input. The tasks were completed, leaving Someone with a booked Uber ride and a personal assistant experience. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-fitting-job-postings-and-tailor-resumes.html find-fitting-job-postings-and-tailor-resumes Claude Productivity Linked example of find fitting job postings and tailor resumes. Commenters describe powered by Claude mainly before the application itself: one person has it search for relevant postings, then tailors resumes only for jobs they choose. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-exploitable-bugs-in-smart-contracts.html find-exploitable-bugs-in-smart-contracts Claude DevOps & Infra A published walkthrough shows researchers assembled SCONE-bench from 405 historically exploited contracts. Each agent ran in a Docker sandbox with a forked local blockchain, bash with the Foundry toolchain, and a file editor. Across the 405 contracts, the models exploited 207 in simulation. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-discounted-bank-owned-homes-and-list-them-as-midterm-rentals.html find-discounted-bank-owned-homes-and-list-them-as-midterm-rentals Custom agent Finance Video walkthrough of MidtermMate: scout REO/bank-owned inventory on discount, estimate what the block rents for, then package the units as furnished midterm stays. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-customer-leads-on-reddit-and-twitter-automatically.html find-customer-leads-on-reddit-and-twitter-automatically Custom agent Productivity Linked example of find customer leads on Reddit and Twitter automatically. The poster describes a tool where you enter your website plus product keywords, then the agent scans Reddit and Twitter for matching mentions and conversations. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-connections-across-100-non-fiction-books.html find-connections-across-100-non-fiction-books Claude Code Productivity Case study takeaway: pieter Maes pointed Claude Code at his personal library of non-fiction books. It automatically located thematic links across them and grouped them into named trails. The site shows dozens of trails, such as Useful Lies, Pacemaker Principle and Proxy Trap. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-cheapest-nonstop-flights-on-google-flights.html find-cheapest-nonstop-flights-on-google-flights ChatGPT Agent Productivity Real-world thread: chatGPT Agent shows up in a write-up about find cheapest nonstop flights on Google Flights, with figures like 4, 10, 737. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-cheaper-car-insurance.html find-cheaper-car-insurance Meta Muse Shopping Case study takeaway: startup founder Joseph Devoy Leaned on Meta's Muse agent, launched September 8, for car insurance. Meta's pitch is to prompt Muse to review your finances, then have it carry out savings tasks in the background, such as haggling with insurers by phone. Devoy said the insurance Muse located cost $3,500 less per year than his original plan, and he called it a killer product. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-buying-signals-on-reddit.html find-buying-signals-on-reddit Grok Bot Productivity According to the write-up, grok Bot covered find buying signals on Reddit. mentions a Grok Bot that located buying signals on Reddit. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-buyer-intent-leads-and-research-them-for-outreach.html find-buyer-intent-leads-and-research-them-for-outreach Grok Bot Sales & Marketing As described in the source, a commenter said they run two bots: the first scans the web with multiple sub-agents for more than 30 buyer-intent signals, such as companies hiring many of the same roles or rumors of an announcement. The second bot reviews those signals, scores each one as a good or bad opportunity, and locates relevant people to contact; the human then uses the resulting weekly lead list for manual email outreach rather than AI-written messages. They said this is working for them because prospects are more receptive when buyer intent is already present and the outreach email is written by a person. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-and-fix-flaky-tests-in-a-broken-ci-pipeline-overnight.html find-and-fix-flaky-tests-in-a-broken-ci-pipeline-overnight Claude Code Software Development With CI logs in reach, Claude Code tracked a rolling 30-day pass rate, chased the noisiest flakes, built minimal repros, and tried fixes overnight. Over a few weeks the pipeline shrank by about 20 minutes and master pass rate climbed ~35% from roughly 40%, though some suggested patches were thrown out on review. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-and-email-businesses-that-need-ai.html find-and-email-businesses-that-need-ai Grok Bot Email & Inbox A published walkthrough shows five Grok bots each got their own inbox via AgentMail. Bot 1 pulled 468 local businesses and filtered out 69% powered by one rule on gaps it could close in a week. 27 replies arrived in the bots' inboxes; 23 requested calls. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-and-clean-leads-for-recruiting-outreach.html find-and-clean-leads-for-recruiting-outreach Claude Code Sales & Marketing A published walkthrough shows the poster wired Claude to MCP connections for Crustdata, FullEnrich, Lemlist, HubSpot, and GitHub, then gave it plain-English criteria like US companies with 100–500 employees, 15+ recent openings, fresh funding, and a recruiting manager to contact. Claude pulled company and hiring signals, located and verified contacts, assembled hiring and news briefs, and drafted outreach angles; in comments, another recruiter said they use Claude to clean rough lists, enrich and organize them into sheets/CRMs, and polish personalized messages before sending. The source says it saved the poster time and commenters said personalized Claude-assisted outreach gets replies, but it gives no hard performance numbers. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-and-book-a-business-lunch-restaurant.html find-and-book-a-business-lunch-restaurant ChatGPT Agent Shopping Community report: the tester gave a terse prompt asking for a business lunch near a Houston address. The agent ran 10 searches over 96 sources and suggested three restaurants. The reservation was confirmed, but the form step alone took the agent 11 minutes against about 2 for the tester. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-and-add-high-meat-cat-food-to-a-basket.html find-and-add-high-meat-cat-food-to-a-basket Perplexity Comet Personal Assistant 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. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-an-nyc-apartment.html find-an-nyc-apartment Zapier Agents Automation Community report: zapier Agents shows up in a write-up about find an NYC apartment, with figures like $20. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-airline-food-fee-reimbursement-emails-buried-in-the-inbox.html find-airline-food-fee-reimbursement-emails-buried-in-the-inbox Meta Muse Email & Inbox According to the write-up, the agent of Meta's Muse was tasked with handling the unresolved refund of SAS, and after examining airline emails, it was discovered that the airline had already reimbursed the food fees. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-a-cheaper-rome-flight-and-hotel-combination.html find-a-cheaper-rome-flight-and-hotel-combination Custom agent Travel & Booking According to the write-up, someone had GPT draft a prompt, then gave that prompt to MuleRun’s browser agent to find a September round-trip flight to Rome plus a mid-range city-center hotel for five nights under $1,500, with taxes and fees included. The agent compared flights and hotels across six platforms, filtered hidden fees, checked refund policies, organized the best three options, and surfaced that booking a direct flight and hotel separately beat package deals; the person then chose and booked one option. It located a direct flight plus boutique hotel for $1,280 total versus a package Someone almost booked for $1,780, a claimed $500 savings. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-a-london-flat-to-rent.html find-a-london-flat-to-rent Claude Cowork Travel & Booking According to the write-up, the poster had Claude Cowork run a repeat search across SpareRoom, OpenRent, Rightmove, and Zoopla twice a day. It screened out student flats and homes with three or more bedrooms, drafted personalised outreach for promising listings, and emailed the poster a digest they could act on from their phone. The poster says this process located them a London rental in five days. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/find-a-linux-vulnerability-hidden-for-23-years.html find-a-linux-vulnerability-hidden-for-23-years Claude Code Software Development As described in the source, nicholas Carlini, a research scientist at Anthropic, ran a short script that looped over every file in the Linux kernel source. For each file, it told Claude Code it was in a CTF, hinted the bug was in that file, and asked it to write its most serious finding to an output directory. Claude Opus 4. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/fill-out-job-applications-in-a-browser.html fill-out-job-applications-in-a-browser Claude Cowork Productivity A published walkthrough shows claude Cowork desktop app gives Claude its own Chrome browser plus three user docs (resume, cover letter, Q&A on common questions). User pastes one prompt listing job boards, salary/location rules, skip conditions, and Sheets logging. It applies to 50 jobs inside 30 minutes while Someone does other work; source shows no further results or failure rates. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/fill-out-insurance-paperwork-from-hospital-records.html fill-out-insurance-paperwork-from-hospital-records Claude Cowork Finance Newborn feeding in one arm, Claude Cowork in the other: Felix Rieseberg dropped hospital PDFs on the agent, pointed it at the insurer portal, and let it complete the forms from the chart details. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/fill-out-booking-forms-automatically.html fill-out-booking-forms-automatically Perplexity Comet Travel & Booking Case study takeaway: the reviewer Leaned on Perplexity's Comet browser assistant for repetitive booking forms. He gave it the details for a recycling centre appointment and told it to book. Comet worked through the forms with only occasional prompts asking whether he still wanted to finish the booking. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/fill-out-a-prescription-order-form-on-a-clinic-site.html fill-out-a-prescription-order-form-on-a-clinic-site ChatGPT Agent Productivity Community report: one commenter tested agent mode on a clinic’s prescription refill form. They put the medication information into the prompt, and the agent filled in the medication name, dosage, and number of days on the website; the person handled the sensitive fields manually instead of having the agent enter them. In that test, it completed the non-sensitive prescription details correctly. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/fill-out-a-long-gp-form.html fill-out-a-long-gp-form Custom agent Home & Family Case study takeaway: someone instructed their agent to complete a long GP form they had been avoiding. The agent handled the full submission on its own with no further user input during the process. The doctor called and booked the tests automatically. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/fill-out-pdf-forms-like-a-w-9-from-saved-personal-details.html fill-out-pdf-forms-like-a-w-9-from-saved-personal-details Claude Code Knowledge & Notes One practitioner notes that dave Swift put a blank W-9 in a folder and had Claude Code list the form fields. He then gave it his details, and it wrote a short script that filled the fields and saved a new PDF. Three W-9s came out in about thirty seconds in a batch run. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/fill-out-50-forms-from-public-information.html fill-out-50-forms-from-public-information Claude Code Finance From the linked report, someone was assigned 50 different insurance forms, each with unique fields, and had Claude fill them out. They say the task Leaned on only public information available on company websites under workplace AI guidelines, and the human step was proofreading every form afterward to check accuracy. Claude completed all 50 forms, and Someone says their review located them accurate. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/fill-in-a-tax-organizer-and-review-last-year-x27-s-return.html fill-in-a-tax-organizer-and-review-last-year-x27-s-return Claude Shopping A published walkthrough shows claude shows up in a write-up about fill in a tax organizer and review last year's return. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/fill-forms-and-review-tax-filings.html fill-forms-and-review-tax-filings Codex Finance Observed in the wild: a tax filing review uncovered a significant error due to Codex computer usage by OpenAI staff, as well as secondhand accounts from individuals who used the system for forms and PDFs. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/fill-and-submit-visa-forms-automatically.html fill-and-submit-visa-forms-automatically Custom agent Travel & Booking From the linked report, in one minute customize memU bot as a personal AI assistant that understands your files on the device. The agent then locates the right documents, fills visa forms automatically, covers image uploads, and submits with no further prompts or manual steps. It removes the usual pain of repetitive forms, missing documents, mismatched photos, and last-minute stress during visa applications. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/fill-a-supermarket-cart-from-regular-purchases-and-sales.html fill-a-supermarket-cart-from-regular-purchases-and-sales Claude Code Shopping Documented elsewhere: the developer wrote silpo-agent-cli, a terminal CLI and Claude Code skill that talks to Silpo's official MCP server. You give Claude a plain-language instruction, such as reordering usual groceries, swapping in a sale brand and staying under 1500 UAH. The source gives no measured results. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/fill-a-supermarket-cart.html fill-a-supermarket-cart ChatGPT Agent Shopping One practitioner notes that as someone was at work, groceries were added to the cart at a nearby supermarket in agent mode, ready for collection the next day. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/fill-pdf-forms.html fill-pdf-forms GitHub Copilot Productivity Case study takeaway: gitHub Copilot shows up in a write-up about fill PDF forms. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/file-tenant-complaints-against-a-landlord-automatically.html file-tenant-complaints-against-a-landlord-automatically Claude Productivity Linked example of file tenant complaints against a landlord automatically. User told Claude code to act as tenant lawyer, find violations, and file them legally. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/file-roofing-permits-and-inspection-forms-online.html file-roofing-permits-and-inspection-forms-online Grok Bot Email & Inbox As described in the source, price Foulger, a roofing contractor, gave Grok Bot his office paperwork over two days. It filled out and pulled an online roofing permit. All three tasks were done within two days. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/file-receipts-from-a-folder.html file-receipts-from-a-folder Grok Bot Productivity Case study takeaway: user ran Grok Bot against a receipts folder. The agent filed 14 receipts on its own, held 2 because they needed a card number, and saved a payment method it located without Someone writing it. Returned 14 filed receipts, 2 held for card details, and one saved payment method. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/file-insurance-claims-for-overcharges.html file-insurance-claims-for-overcharges Custom agent Finance Documented elsewhere: tarun gave the agent access to his insurance account information. After spotting nearly $1,700 in overcharges on items that should have been zero copay, he instructed the agent to file all the claims. The agent filed the claims and $200 has been recovered so far. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/file-airline-delay-compensation-and-rebook-a-flight.html file-airline-delay-compensation-and-rebook-a-flight Meta Muse Travel & Booking As described in the source, after a 7-hour flight delay, Someone (@cryptopunk7213 on X) asked Muse to file for compensation. According to Someone's tweet, Muse handled the claim, located and rebooked a new flight, and replied to the airline's support email on its own. About five minutes later, Someone had a $250 credit in their Delta account, plus the rebooked flight. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/file-a-trademark-application.html file-a-trademark-application Claude Cowork Productivity Paperwork for a USPTO trademark filing was filled with Claude Cowork as the guide; the application later came back approved. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/file-a-complex-tax-return.html file-a-complex-tax-return OpenClaw Shopping One practitioner notes that openClaw shows up in a write-up about file a complex tax return, with figures like 4. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/figma-mcp-to-pixel-perfect-ui.html figma-mcp-to-pixel-perfect-ui Claude Code Design & Creative A developer connects Figma MCP to Claude Code so frontend work goes from design frames to UI that matches the file, instead of manual translation. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/fight-consumer-claims-and-recover-refunds.html fight-consumer-claims-and-recover-refunds Claude Sales & Marketing Real-world thread: the builder describes each problem by voice-to-text. Claude gathers context and returns a dossier covering the contract, the company's marketing, owner reports and the relevant regulator, plus a multi-step plan. Ten fights, no losses after seven months, with over $12,000 recovered. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/fight-a-mattress-warranty-claim-by-email.html fight-a-mattress-warranty-claim-by-email Custom agent Email & Inbox Community report: user emailed the mattress company about a two-year-old warranty issue and spotted ChatGPT-style replies after one or two exchanges. They then set their own agent to handle the ongoing email thread, giving it instructions to cite laws and respond as an aggressive pain-in-the-ass customer while the company's side stayed polite. The agents continued exchanging emails with no resolution or outcome numbers stated in the post. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/fight-a-denied-home-insurance-water-damage-claim.html fight-a-denied-home-insurance-water-damage-claim Custom agent Finance Custom agent covered fight a denied home insurance water damage claim. After a fallen branch left a hole in the roof and more than $60,000 in water damage, the poster says they used AI to study their homeowners policy, research relevant state laws, and build a strategy to challenge the carrier’s decision. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/family-menu-to-doorstep-delivery.html family-menu-to-doorstep-delivery OpenClaw Home & Family An OpenClaw bot plans a healthy week of family meals, turns it into a shopping list and places the supermarket order. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/extract-school-dates-from-forwarded-emails-and-flyers.html extract-school-dates-from-forwarded-emails-and-flyers Custom agent Home & Family Custom agent covered extract school dates from forwarded emails and flyers. The Reddit post describes Ohai as a household-focused organizer where a parent forwards school emails and the AI extracts dates, or snaps a photo of a flyer and it reads the event details. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/extract-receipt-data-for-freelancer-bookkeeping.html extract-receipt-data-for-freelancer-bookkeeping Claude Code Finance As described in the source, the builder used Claude Code to implement most of a bookkeeping app for freelancers and small businesses across a Next.js App Router, Prisma with PostgreSQL, Vercel Blob storage, the UI, and the receipt-processing flow. Users can upload receipt photos on the site or send them through Telegram or Discord; the app pulls fields into a fixed JSON-style structure, keeps raw OCR text for debugging, converts foreign receipts powered by the receipt-date exchange rate, and sends low-confidence cases to a human review screen where users correct mistakes inline. The result was a beta app the builder said felt useful enough to share, with English and French support, a searchable ledger, and deduction guidance during review. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/extract-invoice-data-and-file-it-into-a-bookkeeping-sheet.html extract-invoice-data-and-file-it-into-a-bookkeeping-sheet n8n Finance Real-world thread: users upload an image or PDF through a web page to an n8n webhook, which looks up Someone by token in Google Sheets. PDFs have their text extracted first, then analyzed. The source gives no accuracy or time-saving figures. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/extract-expenses-from-receipt-photos-sent-via-chat.html extract-expenses-from-receipt-photos-sent-via-chat Custom agent Finance From the linked report, the builder made AICountant for freelancers and small businesses as a Telegram or Discord bot. Users connect one of those accounts, send a receipt photo, and the AI pulls out vendor, amount, tax, category, and date, then adds the expense to a ledger for review before Someone can export it as CSV. The post says the product was already functional and the creator was recruiting beta testers to validate usage patterns. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/extract-expenses-from-credit-card-statements-into-excel.html extract-expenses-from-credit-card-statements-into-excel Claude Code Productivity A published walkthrough shows the builder put all her personal credit card statements in one folder and ran Claude Code from inside it. She asked it to find likely business expenses to be reimbursed. She says it saved her hours. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/explore-open-math-problems.html explore-open-math-problems Custom agent Research & Data From the linked report, custom agent covered explore open math problems. a document exploring the use of autonomous mathematical discovery in a multi-agent open-world setting. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/explore-code-to-write-technical-documentation.html explore-code-to-write-technical-documentation Devin Productivity Real-world thread: fern's only technical writer, Devin Logan, uses the Devin AI engineer, which already has context on all of Fern's repos, to explore code before writing. She also tags Fern Writer, a Slack agent assembled on Devin, with an engineering thread, and it opens a PR with drafted pages, reorganized content and redirects. She reports about 20,000 new lines of docs per month across roughly 500 pages. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/everyday-errands-with-a-browser-agent.html everyday-errands-with-a-browser-agent ChatGPT Agent Shopping A designer tested an agent on real chores such as filling a grocery cart and researching purchases, noting where it stalled. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/evaluate-hiring-candidates-against-competency-levels.html evaluate-hiring-candidates-against-competency-levels GitHub Copilot Business & Startups From the linked report, they assembled a basic hiring agent in Copilot Pro and loaded it with their company’s competency definitions and levels through SharePoint as the knowledge base. The agent was used to analyze job descriptions, recommend which competencies were critical for a role, and generate behavioral and situational interview questions plus a scoring rubric; the human set it up in natural language and tested it a few times to make sure it worked correctly. The commenter says it was very simple, required no coding, and saved them lots of time. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/email-daily-deal-briefs-from-zillow-listings-to-real-estate-agents.html email-daily-deal-briefs-from-zillow-listings-to-real-estate-agents Claude Email & Inbox From the linked report, claude shows up in a write-up about email daily deal briefs from Zillow listings to real estate agents, with figures like 47. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/email-daily-clickup-digests-to-stakeholders.html email-daily-clickup-digests-to-stakeholders Make Email & Inbox Linked example of email daily ClickUp digests to stakeholders. They set up ClickUp with a master action-item list plus related project and contact lists, rolling stakeholder emails into each task and auto-adding the right contacts when a project is chosen. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/email-car-brands-without-web-apps-and-build-them-one.html email-car-brands-without-web-apps-and-build-them-one Manus Email & Inbox A published walkthrough shows someone prompted Manus AI to locate car brands lacking web apps, draft emails to them, and send the messages. Manus covered the search and emailing on its own. The brands replied, and Someone assembled a web app for one. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/email-houston-dealerships-to-shop-for-a-car.html email-houston-dealerships-to-shop-for-a-car Claude Cowork Email & Inbox One practitioner notes that margot had Cowork build a spreadsheet of Houston dealerships that fit her criteria. It then drafted and sent outreach emails, filled in contact forms on dealership sites, and handled the reply threads. Within an hour, several dealerships had replied with inventory details. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/edit-site-design-visually-and-have-an-agent-write-the-code.html edit-site-design-visually-and-have-an-agent-write-the-code Claude Code Software Development Case study takeaway: you run CSS Studio on your local site and connect your existing coding agent, for example by running /studio in the project. You select an element and either describe a change in chat or adjust styles, layout, text and animations with visual controls. The page shows an example where padding and border radius edits were saved to a Hero. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/edit-raw-footage-by-describing-the-video-you-want.html edit-raw-footage-by-describing-the-video-you-want Custom agent Media & Content Community report: you upload footage, a prompt, or both, and Cardboard builds an editable first cut. You then refine it through chat or on the timeline. The sample documentary took 12m 36s of agent work and came out at 65 seconds with 73 shots, 29 of them generated, and 13 narrated lines. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/edit-existing-video-clips.html edit-existing-video-clips Gemini Media & Content Community report: gemini shows up in a write-up about edit existing video clips, with figures like 36. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/edit-and-migrate-substack-posts.html edit-and-migrate-substack-posts Claude Productivity Case study takeaway: claude shows up in a write-up about edit and migrate Substack posts. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/drive-desktop-apps.html drive-desktop-apps Claude Cowork Productivity A published walkthrough shows explains how agents on desktops worked against real apps for several months, with a task where the agent misunderstood a modal and continued to report success without any further action. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/draft-transactional-documents.html draft-transactional-documents Claude Productivity From the linked report, claude shows up in a write-up about draft transactional documents. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/draft-social-posts-from-trending-topics-for-approval.html draft-social-posts-from-trending-topics-for-approval Lindy Design & Creative Lindy + Computer Use sits in a real browser on LinkedIn. Weekday 8am job: scan niche trends, draft three voice-matched posts, DM them for a human thumbs-up. Reviewer label: “genuinely agentic,” score 2. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/draft-refund-emails-from-a-photo-and-gmail-receipt.html draft-refund-emails-from-a-photo-and-gmail-receipt Claude Cowork Email & Inbox Community report: a photo of a pair of worn-through pants was uploaded to Claude Cowork, with a dictated prompt asking for a J.Crew refund. Cowork, connected to Gmail, searched for the receipt from PayPal or J.Crew, pulled the order number and purchase date, and drafted the support email. The source describes a drafted refund request with the order details and the defect, ready for review. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/draft-pull-request-reviews-for-you-to-edit-and-send.html draft-pull-request-reviews-for-you-to-edit-and-send Claude Code Software Development According to the write-up, the poster assembled Cerber to watch GitHub for pull requests requesting their review, run Claude Code through Someone’s existing CLI login, and prepare draft reviews in a local web UI. The agent produces a summary, change walkthrough, and proposed inline comments; Someone can discuss findings with it, rewrite or delete comments, then manually send the review from their own account. It helped with a queue that had grown to 15 PRs and avoided unreviewed AI comments being posted straight to GitHub. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/draft-personalized-outbound-recaps-and-forecasts-for-sales.html draft-personalized-outbound-recaps-and-forecasts-for-sales Cursor Sales & Marketing From the linked report, chatGTM sits on top of Salesforce, Gong, the data warehouse, LinkedIn and other sources, and pulls context live rather than from a stored repo. Each morning it sketches about 25 signal-based outbound messages, each with a landing page matched to the contact's stack and role. A pilot group of 8 SDRs booked triple the qualified meetings, with the top two at 4x. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/draft-personalized-job-outreach-emails-from-linkedin-leads.html draft-personalized-job-outreach-emails-from-linkedin-leads Claude Cowork Sales & Marketing A published walkthrough shows pratyush uploaded an Excel of LinkedIn leads plus his resume to Claude Cowork. The agent drafted one personalized email per role, matching the JD to the resume, and placed each draft into Gmail ready to send. Job outreach that had taken hours was completed in minutes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/draft-parent-teacher-communications.html draft-parent-teacher-communications ChatGPT Home & Family Linked example of draft parent-teacher communications. The teacher said they first used ChatGPT for lesson outlines, then for weekly comments, then to refine those comments from added input, and eventually to draft a parent letter. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/draft-lesson-plans-and-school-paperwork-for-teachers.html draft-lesson-plans-and-school-paperwork-for-teachers ChatGPT Research & Data Real-world thread: a teacher used ChatGPT as an administrative assistant for lesson sequences, reflections, PowerPoints, programs, assessment notifications, marking, and even draft student reports. They gave it prompts plus short assessment notes, then checked and edited the output themselves; in comments, they stressed that everything still needed vetting. The teacher says it saved them hours of planning and cut admin time enough to focus more on teaching. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/draft-follow-up-emails-automatically-when-no-reply-arrives.html draft-follow-up-emails-automatically-when-no-reply-arrives Lindy Email & Inbox Case study takeaway: one commenter said they set up a Lindy flow tied to their sent email so that after each outgoing message, the AI waits a set amount of time and checks for a reply. If no response arrives, it sketches a follow-up and sends that draft to Someone's inbox, where the person decides whether to send it. Someone said they had started powered by it the day before and that it was working well so far. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/draft-email-replies-and-linkedin-posts.html draft-email-replies-and-linkedin-posts n8n Email & Inbox From the linked report, n8n shows up in a write-up about draft email replies and LinkedIn posts, with figures like 8. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/draft-email-campaigns-in-klaviyo.html draft-email-campaigns-in-klaviyo Grok Bot Email & Inbox One practitioner notes that the Grok Bot received brand voice instructions plus access to Dropbox product photos and Figma. It wrote full campaigns in that voice, pulled the photos, stood up hero artwork, and inserted an editable draft directly into Klaviyo. The setup replaced Someone's prior email agency. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/draft-daily-niche-news-posts-for-four-social-platforms.html draft-daily-niche-news-posts-for-four-social-platforms Custom agent Media & Content A published walkthrough shows put together from one prompt in 15 minutes. The agent scans daily niche news, selects the most relevant story, composes tailored posts for LinkedIn, X, Instagram and Facebook, produces platform-cropped images, afterward emails the four sketches at 7am each morning. No performance numbers or results are stated. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/draft-appeals-for-denied-insurance-claims.html draft-appeals-for-denied-insurance-claims Custom agent Finance From the linked report, an n8n automation triggers the moment a claim is marked Denied, filters anything already appealed, then pulls the full patient record, prescriptions, and test results tied to that patient ID. One AI call zeros in on the likely denial reason and sketches the formal appeal letter citing the clinical details. It outputs a real Google Doc with the letter, updates a tracking sheet, and sends a branded email to staff with a review link. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/draft-and-schedule-a-weekly-newsletter.html draft-and-schedule-a-weekly-newsletter Claude Code Email & Inbox Observed in the wild: sid wrote a Claude Code skill, a markdown file, with a Kit v4 API key kept in .env. On /newsletter it reads the site's content index for posts from the last 7 days and sketches a short email powered by his voice rules. The whole run takes about two minutes, down from 30+ minutes by hand. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/draft-a-tax-filing-from-bank-statements.html draft-a-tax-filing-from-bank-statements Claude Code Finance Community report: claude Code shows up in a write-up about draft a tax filing from bank statements, with figures like 1,400. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/draft-a-refund-demand-for-an-unauthorized-renewal.html draft-a-refund-demand-for-an-unauthorized-renewal ChatGPT Shopping Linked example of draft a refund demand for an unauthorized renewal. After Skillshare charged a $24 annual renewal the poster says they had not authorized, they used ChatGPT to help draft firmer refund emails instead of accepting the company’s offered 12-month gift card. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/draft-a-dissertation-lit-review-from-uploaded-sources.html draft-a-dissertation-lit-review-from-uploaded-sources Custom agent Productivity Community report: after ChatGPT invented citations, the writer switched to NotebookLM so the model could cite only papers they had uploaded. They renamed files before uploading and gave one standing instruction for citation format, which changed NotebookLM’s bare numbered references into The builder-year citations; they then used a broader workflow to vet sources, organize them, get synthesis, and manually audit citations before export. It cut down a lot of manual cross-checking and helped them draft dissertation literature review chapters without made-up references. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/draft-reddit-answers-to-reach-a-karma-goal.html draft-reddit-answers-to-reach-a-karma-goal Claude Code Productivity Linked example of draft Reddit answers to reach a karma goal. The poster says Claude, running in Claude Code for a small company, was tasked with answering Reddit questions and tracking toward a 200-karma goal. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/download-a-youtube-video-for-offline-review.html download-a-youtube-video-for-offline-review Claude Code Media & Content A simple Claude Code request downloads a YouTube video locally when the user needs offline access. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/download-google-doc-images-in-high-res.html download-google-doc-images-in-high-res Claude Code Media & Content Claude Code pulls every embedded image from a Google Doc at high resolution for reuse in other materials. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/do-taxes-by-selecting-the-right-invoices.html do-taxes-by-selecting-the-right-invoices ChatGPT Agent Productivity Linked example of do taxes by selecting the right invoices. The poster used ChatGPT’s Agent tool to help with quarterly Xero reconciliation for a business, not fully file taxes end to end. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/do-sales-research-and-compare-app-to-mock-ups.html do-sales-research-and-compare-app-to-mock-ups Claude Sales & Marketing Linked example of do sales research and compare app to mock-ups. In the thread, one commenter describes opening two Chrome tabs—an HTML mockups file and the live app—and asking Claude in Chrome to move through both and produce a document listing UX/UI differences. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/do-equity-research.html do-equity-research Claude Code Research & Data Real-world thread: a non-engineer uses Claude Code for equity research and keeps a folder of plain-text files with Obsidian management for his research. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/do-bookkeeping-and-tax-prep-from-a-folder-of-documents.html do-bookkeeping-and-tax-prep-from-a-folder-of-documents Claude Cowork Finance Community report: cowork was pointed at a Taxes folder holding W-2s, 1099s, bank CSVs, mortgage docs and prior-year returns. It sorted files into year/category subfolders, assembled Context.md, stood up a master spreadsheet with income/expense/write-off tabs, produced tax summaries with refund estimates and flagged deductions, generated an accountant briefing, and listed discrepancies plus a checklist. Delivered a complete organized workspace and briefing that replaced manual sorting, saving 6-8 hours with cleaner output than previous accountant handoffs. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/dispute-contractor-pricing-and-change-orders.html dispute-contractor-pricing-and-change-orders Custom agent Productivity Real-world thread: user fed the AI every line item, the PO, and all contractor emails. The AI reviewed them and drafted detailed dispute emails on pricing and change orders, covering challenges Someone had not spotted. The disputes produced $20K credited back over the project life. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/dispute-an-erroneous-medical-collections-bill.html dispute-an-erroneous-medical-collections-bill Grok Bot Finance Case study takeaway: the finance bot Warren received Someone’s healthcare login. It logged in, located the EOB for the year-old surgery, determined the collection agency was in error because insurance had paid, and faxed a dispute letter that included the EOB document. The bot targeted an unknown $13K medical collections debt and initiated the dispute process to remove it. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/dispute-an-airline-x27-s-eu261-delay-compensation-rejection.html dispute-an-airline-x27-s-eu261-delay-compensation-rejection Grok Bot Email & Inbox A published walkthrough shows grok Bot shows up in a write-up about dispute an airline's EU261 delay compensation rejection, with figures like 400. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/discover-room-temperature-magnetic-semiconductor-candidates.html discover-room-temperature-magnetic-semiconductor-candidates Custom agent Productivity According to the write-up, the post's headline stated that two candidate room-temperature magnetic semiconductors were identified by powered by oxide 5.5 agents. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/diagnose-why-a-mac-is-running-slowly.html diagnose-why-a-mac-is-running-slowly Claude Code DevOps & Infra A user has Claude Code check load averages, memory pressure, disk space, stuck processes and Docker or Time Machine caches, then explain fixes with risk notes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/diagnose-a-low-energy-health-issue.html diagnose-a-low-energy-health-issue Custom agent Productivity A published walkthrough shows as described in the source: noah stood up an agent that recommended which blood tests to take and which medical professionals to see, and it reveals that it was the answer four doctors failed to provide. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/diagnose-a-check-engine-light-by-ordering-an-obd2-scanner.html diagnose-a-check-engine-light-by-ordering-an-obd2-scanner OpenClaw Shopping Dash light on, OpenClaw on the case: Amazon OBD2 scanner ordered from the car, codes read, sensor blamed, light cleared. DIY path beat a dealer visit on time and cash. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/diagnose-swift-errors.html diagnose-swift-errors ChatGPT Sales & Marketing Real-world thread: chatGPT is used by a Swift developer to generate error messages and code, which is then reviewed and identified as the cause. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/diagnose-kubernetes-alerts.html diagnose-kubernetes-alerts n8n DevOps & Infra A published walkthrough shows in a Mattermost thread, a diagnostic report is posted by an n8n agent that is triggered by Alertmanager and queries Kubernetes, Grafana, and other MCP servers. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/detailed-travel-planning-test.html detailed-travel-planning-test Manus Travel & Booking A user gave Manus a complex multi-constraint trip and documented how the plan and handbook turned out. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/design-doc-research-across-multiple-repos.html design-doc-research-across-multiple-repos Claude Code Research & Data A workplace engineer uses Claude Code as a research assistant over several repos and schemas while drafting a design doc for a new feature. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/design-product-labels-and-produce-sds-sheets.html design-product-labels-and-produce-sds-sheets Manus Media & Content A published walkthrough shows the seller used Manus across packaging and compliance work: it designed new co-branded product labels, read screenshots of new customer testimonials and added them into updated files, and generated three SDS sheets. A person still had to step in on label production, because when Manus offered to turn its label concepts into print-ready files, the output was not actually usable, so they traced from the rendering and made the final production file themselves. It saved enough labor that Someone was comfortable paying $200-$300 per month, and they say the three SDS sheets alone avoided about $900 in software fees or $3,000 in hired writing costs. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/design-ui-pages-and-explainer-videos-by-voice.html design-ui-pages-and-explainer-videos-by-voice Grok Bot Media & Content Documented elsewhere: user spoke instructions and supplied design references to Grok Bot to build UI/UX pages for an agentic financial desk. The bot generated the pages, stood up images, animated the designs on its own, and produced explainer videos. All requested pages, animations, and videos were completed. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/deliver-a-software-feature-autonomously-partial.html deliver-a-software-feature-autonomously-partial Claude computer use Productivity From the linked report, someone discussed the feature deliverables and agreed on a concrete plan with Claude, then granted it full autonomous control to implement the entire feature. Claude generated 70 files on its own without further input or tests. Someone deleted the branch, cleared the session, and returned to powered by Claude only for incremental pair-programming steps. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/delegate-web-research-from-claude-code-to-comet.html delegate-web-research-from-claude-code-to-comet Claude Code Research & Data Observed in the wild: you add the comet-mcp server to Claude Code's MCP config and install the Perplexity Comet browser. The server launches Comet with remote debugging and talks to it over CDP. The source gives no benchmarks or measured results. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/delegate-to-do-items-to-ai-agents.html delegate-to-do-items-to-ai-agents Custom agent Email & Inbox One practitioner notes that someone keeps a shared task list that both people and AI agents can access. A person assigns a task to one of the bots; the agent claims it, updates the status to in progress while working, moves it to done when finished, and returns it to the review inbox. Tasks flow back and forth between Someone and agents as described, with no numbers or performance details described. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/delegate-tiny-chores-to-devin-via-slack.html delegate-tiny-chores-to-devin-via-slack Devin Software Development A developer fires Devin at small, well-scoped chores from Slack and reviews the resulting GitHub PRs at lunch and end of day. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/delegate-tab-juggling-work-to-chatgpt-agent-x27-s-virtual-computer.html delegate-tab-juggling-work-to-chatgpt-agent-x27-s-virtual-computer ChatGPT Agent Productivity Copy-paste ping-pong across browser tabs was the pain. After seven days of experiments, the author left that busywork on ChatGPT Agent’s remote desktop and came back to completed tasks. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/deep-seo-content-calendar-with-manus.html deep-seo-content-calendar-with-manus Manus Sales & Marketing A marketer asked Manus to study their products and writing, research keywords, and produce a content calendar at the intersection of interest and revenue. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/decide-between-points-and-cash-for-every-trip.html decide-between-points-and-cash-for-every-trip Claude Code Travel & Booking According to the write-up, the toolkit installs into Claude Code as a plugin with skills, MCP servers and a travel-hacker subagent. Given a request, it searches cash sources (Duffel, Ignav, Google Flights, Skiplagged, Kiwi) and Seats.aero for awards. The source describes the workflow and what is included, not measured results. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/debug-overnight.html debug-overnight Codex Software Development As described in the source, codex shows up in a write-up about debug overnight. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/debug-low-level-cryptography-code.html debug-low-level-cryptography-code Claude Code Productivity A published walkthrough shows filippo Valsorda ran Claude Code (Opus 4.1, no system prompt) on his new Go ML-DSA implementation. His prompt named the test command and code directory, described the failing symptom, and asked it to think hard. It located all three bugs in one shot without help. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/debug-frontend-ui-bugs.html debug-frontend-ui-bugs Claude Knowledge & Notes Case study takeaway: claude shows up in a write-up about debug frontend UI bugs. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/debug-code-hands-free-by-voice.html debug-code-hands-free-by-voice Claude Code DevOps & Infra Real-world thread: claude Code shows up in a write-up about debug code hands-free by voice. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/debug-windows-crash-dumps.html debug-windows-crash-dumps Custom agent DevOps & Infra Raw minidumps are painful; ForensicDbg predigests native x86/x64 crashes into linked findings and speaks MCP, so an agent can debug post-mortem without spelunking WinDbg by hand. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/debloat-an-android-tv.html debloat-an-android-tv Hermes Agent Productivity Real-world thread: as described in the source: the task of unplugging his Android TV was accomplished by Rakesh Prakash when he requested assistance from his Hermes agent. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/date-night-planned-end-to-end.html date-night-planned-end-to-end ChatGPT Agent Travel & Booking A writer had an agent pick a restaurant and a movie, choose seats, and stop at payment. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/cut-a-hospital-bill-using-claude-x27-s-medicare-price-analysis.html cut-a-hospital-bill-using-claude-x27-s-medicare-price-analysis Claude Finance From the linked report, claude shows up in a write-up about cut a hospital bill using Claude's Medicare price analysis, with figures like $195,628, $163,000. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/customize-and-order-a-matcha-drink-for-an-event.html customize-and-order-a-matcha-drink-for-an-event Claude Cowork Shopping As described in the source, she connected her Monid API keys to Claude Cowork. The Monid agent afterward customized the milk choice and placed the order for a coconut cloud matcha drink ahead of the SF tech week rooftop pop-up event. The customized matcha was ordered for the event. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/custom-terminal-agent-for-crud-scaffolding.html custom-terminal-agent-for-crud-scaffolding Custom agent DevOps & Infra An HN user runs a local DeepSeek-backed coding agent with only filesystem tools to scaffold routing, CRUD, auth, themes and admin dashboards in minutes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/curate-a-mubi-watchlist-from-stated-criteria.html curate-a-mubi-watchlist-from-stated-criteria ChatGPT Agent Productivity Real-world thread: someone gave ChatGPT Agent a set of film criteria: lesser-known movies from 2015–2025, varied countries and styles, and no Hollywood Oscar fare. The agent then browsed Mubi’s library on its own, selected 10 titles it judged fit, wrote brief verdicts on them, and added the picks directly to Someone’s Mubi watchlist. Someone said it was very efficient and saved them from manually adding the films. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/cross-family-ai-review-before-human-pr-review.html cross-family-ai-review-before-human-pr-review Codex Software Development After six months of agent-only coding, a commenter routes every PR through a different-model-family reviewer plus deterministic gates before looking at it. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/create-schedule-and-post-content-across-platforms-automatically.html create-schedule-and-post-content-across-platforms-automatically n8n Media & Content According to the write-up, n8n shows up in a write-up about create, schedule and post content across platforms automatically, with figures like 8. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/create-social-media-visuals.html create-social-media-visuals Claude Code Sales & Marketing Case study takeaway: attempted to create app marketing visuals using Canva MCP in Claude Code, but it was an unsuccessful endeavor. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/create-bills-in-quickbooks-from-supplier-invoices.html create-bills-in-quickbooks-from-supplier-invoices Custom agent Email & Inbox Linked example of create bills in QuickBooks from supplier invoices. A commenter described a hands-free setup where supplier invoices are sent to a dedicated inbox, then an AI agent parses each invoice and pushes the details straight into accounting software like QuickBooks, covering taxes and net terms. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/create-assessments-and-grade-papers-for-classes.html create-assessments-and-grade-papers-for-classes ChatGPT Research & Data Linked example of create assessments and grade papers for classes. The Reddit post says a co-teacher was powered by ChatGPT to make tests, handouts, and other assignments, and a student noticed because the format matched a ChatGPT-made study guide they had generated for themself. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/create-accounts-buy-domains-and-deploy-without-a-human.html create-accounts-buy-domains-and-deploy-without-a-human Custom agent Software Development According to the write-up, someone installs the Stripe CLI with the Stripe Projects plugin, logs in to Stripe, and runs the project init command. Then they prompt their agent to build something and deploy it to a new domain. The post describes the flow as taking an agent from nothing to a deployed production app in one shot, with no dashboard visits, copied API tokens or card entry. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/create-a-subtitled-video-from-one-prompt.html create-a-subtitled-video-from-one-prompt Grok Bot Media & Content From the linked report, user entered a simple prompt into Agent Mode in Grok Imagine. The agent took the prompt and a single image, then generated matching scenes from different angles, assembled a full visual storyline, and added subtitles to produce the complete video on its own. It produced a 36-second video in five minutes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/create-a-presentation-on-ai-career-and-salary-trends.html create-a-presentation-on-ai-career-and-salary-trends ChatGPT Agent Media & Content Observed in the wild: in agent mode, the tester gave ChatGPT Agent a detailed prompt for a 10-15 slide PowerPoint on career and salary growth in generative AI. The prompt listed an 11-slide outline, with charts, icons and minimal text. The deck came out very basic in content and design, and its tables were hard to read. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/create-a-full-music-video-with-lyrics-music-and-visuals.html create-a-full-music-video-with-lyrics-music-and-visuals Hermes Agent Media & Content According to the write-up, user asked Hermes-Agent to give itself skills. The agent wrote lyrics, produced music vocals and stems in 8D powered by ACE-Step-1.5, generated image prompts from the lyrics with Flux-Klein-4B, timed the images to the lyrics structure, and stood up audio-reactive effects. Produced a complete music video containing the lyrics, music stems, visuals, 8D effects and audio-responsive elements. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/cover-support-calls-24-7.html cover-support-calls-24-7 Custom agent Productivity Case study takeaway: Custom agent was pointed at cover support calls 24/7. robin Delta designed a voice agent who is available to answer support calls 24/7, escalate tier-1 issues, and book appointments. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/coordinator-agent-that-hands-off-to-coding-agents.html coordinator-agent-that-hands-off-to-coding-agents Hermes Software Development A conversational agent runs todos, cron jobs, research and Obsidian notes, delegating repo work to IDE and CLI coding agents. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/coordinate-sub-agents-to-monitor-prs-and-fix-prod-bugs.html coordinate-sub-agents-to-monitor-prs-and-fix-prod-bugs Cursor Software Development Observed in the wild: the Cursor Projects coordinator agent received overall project context and intent. On its own it monitored fresh PRs and production issues or bugs, then spun up sub-agents to handle fixes while delegating context across them. After finishing one large project Someone described the experience as a collaborative marathon that ended too soon and preferred it to earlier agent workflows. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/coordinate-background-threads-and-send-admin-reminders.html coordinate-background-threads-and-send-admin-reminders Dots Finance Observed in the wild: someone kept one main conversation with the dot. The dot coordinated other threads in the background on its own and sent proactive messages reminding Someone to send quarterly documents to the accountant and check on a refund. Someone located the single-conversation coordination convenient and the reminders magical, with no metrics or shortfalls stated. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/coordinate-a-cancer-patient-x27-s-records-and-care.html coordinate-a-cancer-patient-x27-s-records-and-care Custom agent Home & Family Case study takeaway: a family gave a dying relative's medical records to an agent as coordinator; it flagged a wrong pain medication schedule and a transcription error in his genetic markers, which changed his treatment plan. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/control-your-mac-by-voice.html control-your-mac-by-voice Claude Productivity Case study takeaway: claude shows up in a write-up about control your Mac by voice. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/control-the-home-by-voice.html control-the-home-by-voice Custom agent Home & Family According to the write-up, create a home assistant that can monitor household goods, lights, air conditioning, and moisture levels using voice commands, utilizing AI input. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/control-robots.html control-robots Gemini Software Development As described in the source, gemini shows up in a write-up about control robots, with figures like 10. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/control-a-fan-from-sleep-position.html control-a-fan-from-sleep-position Custom agent DevOps & Infra According to the write-up, the setup runs a MediaPipe pose vision model on a Raspberry Pi home server that watches the sleeping person via camera. It detects real-time sleep position and sends a signal to a remote button pusher: arms or leg out triggers fan on, arms curled triggers fan off. The fan turns on or off automatically while people sleep without waking Someone. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/control-a-pc-and-launch-world-of-warcraft-from-your-phone.html control-a-pc-and-launch-world-of-warcraft-from-your-phone Claude Code Productivity Community report: simon Batt installed Git and enabled computer-use permissions for Claude Code on his Windows PC. A plain-English prompt had it open Calculator, multiply two numbers, and save the result to Notepad on the Desktop. For the WoW request, Claude described back when finished and the character was logged in. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/control-gmail-calendar-and-errands-from-a-chat-agent.html control-gmail-calendar-and-errands-from-a-chat-agent OpenClaw Email & Inbox According to the write-up, openClaw runs on your own machine, with a cloud model behind it, and you message it through Telegram or WhatsApp. Users give it Gmail and Calendar access. The source is a roundup of user testimonials, with no measured results. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/contact-job-candidates-for-initial-hr-screening.html contact-job-candidates-for-initial-hr-screening Custom agent Productivity Linked example of contact job candidates for initial HR screening. The post describes a company powered by an automated recruiter that first emailed from a generic recruiting address, then placed a phone call that immediately launched into a scripted screening once the candidate answered. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/consolidate-bank-statements-into-a-spending-dashboard.html consolidate-bank-statements-into-a-spending-dashboard Claude Finance Real-world thread: claude shows up in a write-up about consolidate bank statements into a spending dashboard. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/configure-a-local-ai-lab-and-build-a-knowledge-graph-by-chat.html configure-a-local-ai-lab-and-build-a-knowledge-graph-by-chat Hermes Agent DevOps & Infra As described in the source, per this overview, Ivan Fioravanti showed Hermes Agent setting up a local AI lab (liteLLM, Postgres, Prometheus, Grafana) through conversation. Separately, Alvaro Cintas had Hermes install Gbrain, an open-source project from Garry Tan, add it as an MCP server, and query it for entity-aware recall as a personal knowledge graph. The source names both setups as working demos. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/compose-songs-by-writing-synthesis-code.html compose-songs-by-writing-synthesis-code Claude Code Media & Content According to the write-up, josh Cohenzadeh gave Claude Code one-shot prompts: no exploration, no third-party dependencies, no questions, and it had to produce an audio file. It wrote Python that assembled notes from raw waveforms and arranged full songs. It produced an original song, an EDM track, a rock song with lyrics, music videos and a 5-track album. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/compose-and-produce-music-through-conversation.html compose-and-produce-music-through-conversation Claude Code Media & Content From the linked report, the builder Leaned on Claude 4.5 models in Claude Code to write multi-track music and lyrics, plus the tooling for composing and producing. Claude was connected to Bitwig Studio through projects such as a Bitwig content search CLI and the Jeannie controller framework. The gist collects five songs, covering a symphony finale and a twelve-song concept album, with MIDI and lyrics on GitHub. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/complete-online-surveys-for-free-stuff.html complete-online-surveys-for-free-stuff Grok Bot Finance Case study takeaway: the poster says they had a Grok bot handle a Burger King receipt survey after getting a code on the receipt. They gave the bot the task, and about 30 minutes later it messaged back a link to download the coupon for the free Whopper; the post does not describe any other setup or human steps. It worked once: the bot completed the survey and returned the free-coupon link. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/complete-an-online-survey-end-to-end.html complete-an-online-survey-end-to-end Meta Muse Research & Data A published walkthrough shows the poster says they gave Meta’s Muse a link to one of their surveys and told it to complete the whole thing without human help. According to the post, Muse handled the survey from start to finish on its own, covering navigating pages, answering questions, solving the captcha, and submitting the response; the poster says they never clicked, answered, or took over. The reported result was a fully submitted survey response with no human intervention. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/compile-journalist-lists-and-search-apartment-listings.html compile-journalist-lists-and-search-apartment-listings Manus Productivity Observed in the wild: the reporter gave Manus three tasks: a list of China tech reporters, two-bedroom NYC listings with several criteria, and 50 Innovators Under 35 nominees. She watched its browser window and took over for captchas. The reporter list took a little over an hour and the apartment search under half an hour. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/compile-homework-turn-ins-into-one-report.html compile-homework-turn-ins-into-one-report Custom agent Personal Assistant Community report: someone described a teacher who used no-code automations to stop manually checking Google Classroom, email, and paper submissions for homework. powered by Office 365 tools plus platforms named as Power Automate, BhindiAI, Zapier, and Make, the setup scanned those sources and produced one unified turn-in report; the human role described was choosing and wiring the no-code workflow. The stated result was that a task that used to take 45 minutes was reduced to seconds. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/compile-genealogy-research-into-a-spreadsheet-and-plan.html compile-genealogy-research-into-a-spreadsheet-and-plan ChatGPT Agent Research & Data Forum aside: ChatGPT had already spun up her genealogy sheet; the tip was to switch into Agent mode when it’s time to wrangle findings into a clean plan. Success metrics weren’t posted. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/compile-deductions-and-schedule-c.html compile-deductions-and-schedule-c Claude Code Email & Inbox A published walkthrough shows from the linked report: claude Code compiled a Schedule C that included itemized deductions and charitable contributions from sheets, emails, and statements, although some of the deductions remained manual. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/compile-and-filter-apartment-listings.html compile-and-filter-apartment-listings Claude Productivity According to the write-up, renno Mihalis, 23, had one week to find an apartment in San Francisco after getting a job offer. Rather than powered by a single rental platform, he Leaned on Claude and ChatGPT to compile a list of property management websites. The AI did a pretty good job listing apartments within his parameters, but sometimes included ones outside them. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/compile-an-annotated-bibliography-and-draft-a-paper.html compile-an-annotated-bibliography-and-draft-a-paper ChatGPT Agent Research & Data ChatGPT Agent covered compile an annotated bibliography and draft a paper. The builder gave ChatGPT Agent a single /agent prompt asking for peer-reviewed papers from the past five years on Big Data and Analytics in decision-making, focused on Education and Healthcare. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/competitive-intelligence-tracker.html competitive-intelligence-tracker Custom agent Sales & Marketing A Show HN project monitors competitors' sites and summarizes meaningful changes for a team. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/compare-and-book-a-hotel-online.html compare-and-book-a-hotel-online Grok Bot Travel & Booking Hotel hunt + checkout handled in one Grok Bot pass. The user mainly reported that the automated purchase came in cheaper than doing it manually. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/compare-coca-cola-prices-across-belgian-supermarkets.html compare-coca-cola-prices-across-belgian-supermarkets Grok Bot Productivity Real-world thread: peter van Hees asked Grok Bot in plain language to compare Coca-Cola prices at the major Belgian supermarkets, without naming shops or sizes. The bot worked from the official store sites rather than comparison blogs. It described 1. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/collect-shower-glass-supplier-quotes-by-email.html collect-shower-glass-supplier-quotes-by-email OpenClaw Email & Inbox A published walkthrough shows someone asked OpenClaw to research local shower glass suppliers afterward contact them. The agent sent emails on its own, gathered replies, and managed the back-and-forth conversation inside a single chat thread. It produced supplier quotes through email. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/collect-monthly-invoices-and-email-them-to-an-accountant.html collect-monthly-invoices-and-email-them-to-an-accountant Custom agent Email & Inbox Custom agent covered collect monthly invoices and email them to an accountant. The poster made a Chrome extension called Severino for recurring vendor bills like AWS, Vercel, GitHub, Google Cloud, Twilio, and Slack. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/collect-financial-data-on-100-independent-schools.html collect-financial-data-on-100-independent-schools Operator Productivity Observed in the wild: the writer gave Operator a Google Sheet listing 100 school names, which came from an o3-mini-high query. Operator Leaned on its own browser to search ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer for each school, read the summary financials, and paste them into the sheet. Operator was very slow and was stopped after about 25 schools. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/collate-school-homework-and-due-dates-into-a-child-x27-s-calendar.html collate-school-homework-and-due-dates-into-a-child-x27-s-calendar Meta Muse Personal Assistant From the linked report, meta Muse shows up in a write-up about collate school homework and due dates into a child's calendar. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/collate-who-data-into-a-multi-tab-spreadsheet.html collate-who-data-into-a-multi-tab-spreadsheet ChatGPT Agent Productivity From the linked report, in ChatGPT Agent mode, the testers gave a single prompt asking it to retrieve the most recent publicly available World Health Organisation data. The agent navigated the WHO site by itself, pulled out the relevant figures and arranged them into a multi-tab spreadsheet. The source says the agent produced a clean multi-tab spreadsheet. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/cold-call-real-estate-brokers.html cold-call-real-estate-brokers n8n Sales & Marketing A published walkthrough shows n8n shows up in a write-up about cold-call real estate brokers. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/codex-mobile-pr-for-a-tiny-lint-fix.html codex-mobile-pr-for-a-tiny-lint-fix Codex Software Development A reviewer notes OpenAI Codex in the mobile app can turn a Slack-style message into a small pull request, handy for trivial fixes away from a desk. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/code-in-the-terminal.html code-in-the-terminal Grok Bot DevOps & Infra Documented elsewhere: grok Bot shows up in a write-up about code in the terminal. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/code-from-your-phone.html code-from-your-phone Claude Code Productivity A published walkthrough shows the builder runs Claude Code on a Vultr cloud VM reachable only through Tailscale, powered by Termius with mosh from an iPhone. Each git worktree gets its own tmux window and agent. He runs six agents in parallel on separate features from his phone, handling tasks of 10-20 minutes between notifications. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/coach-training-and-diet-from-wearable-data.html coach-training-and-diet-from-wearable-data Claude Home & Family Observed in the wild: one commenter described a setup very close to this: Garmin data is pulled hourly into an InfluxDB on their server, and Claude Code runs there on a booked daily morning task. Claude reads load, stress, sleep and related metrics, calculates a training-readiness score itself, builds and adjusts the training plan, and publishes the result to a small webpage they host for phone access; they also gave it an initial full export plus years of Garmin, Strava, and .fit history for context. They said it keeps daily training specific enough to avoid burnout or overtraining and can notice rough periods like vacation, long work weeks, and time-zone travel. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/cloud-browser-chores-driven-from-an-ide-agent.html cloud-browser-chores-driven-from-an-ide-agent Cursor Automation A founder uses Cursor's agent to write scripts that drive a cloud browser for daily web tasks without keeping a laptop on. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/client-meeting-prep-on-autopilot.html client-meeting-prep-on-autopilot Custom agent Sales & Marketing A user describes an automation that researches an account two days before meetings and produces a slide deck and notes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/click-add-to-cart-button-on-a-website.html click-add-to-cart-button-on-a-website Claude computer use Shopping According to the write-up, claude computer use shows up in a write-up about click add-to-cart button on a website. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/clear-local-disk-space-with-a-guided-plan.html clear-local-disk-space-with-a-guided-plan Claude Code Personal Files Lenny asks Claude Code how to free storage, discusses options, then has it run the safer cleanup steps. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/cleaning-up-194-gb-of-photos.html cleaning-up-194-gb-of-photos Claude Code Personal Files A user had an LLM help consolidate and de-duplicate a large photo archive, shrinking it to about a third of its size. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/clean-inbox-chase-refund-and-book-hvac-tune-up.html clean-inbox-chase-refund-and-book-hvac-tune-up Meta Muse Email & Inbox Case study takeaway: the Muse agent had access to Someone's Hotmail inbox and prior maintenance records. It reviewed 80K emails, flagged 20k+ old promos and newsletters for deletion with explicit user approval, and logged every action. Inbox dropped from 96% to 60% full. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/clean-inbox-and-draft-social-posts-in-your-voice.html clean-inbox-and-draft-social-posts-in-your-voice Grok Bot Email & Inbox According to the write-up, the Grok bot was given access to Someone's computer and apps. It logged into sites, clicked through them independently, cleaned and analyzed the inbox, afterward sketched X and LinkedIn posts in Someone's voice. The bots managed and improved daily ops with ongoing coordination. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/claude-code-for-git-plans-and-codebase-tours.html claude-code-for-git-plans-and-codebase-tours Claude Code Software Development Calvin uses Claude Code daily to create plans, script local tasks, manage git/GitHub, and explain unfamiliar parts of the codebase via fast explore subagents. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/claude-code-as-a-general-computer-operator.html claude-code-as-a-general-computer-operator Claude Code DevOps & Infra A writer argues a terminal coding agent can handle many everyday computing jobs and shows examples beyond writing code. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/claim-unclaimed-property-using-chatgpt-guidance.html claim-unclaimed-property-using-chatgpt-guidance ChatGPT Productivity As described in the source, in a comment on the removed Reddit thread, someone said they got a mailed notice from a company offering to file an unclaimed-property claim for a 10% fee. They photographed the letter, sent it to ChatGPT, and ChatGPT told them to check Florida’s treasury site and file the claim themselves; they then submitted the claim without powered by the company. They said the claim worked: the fiancé received the money by deposit, it took only a few weeks, and they did not have to jump through any hoops. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/claim-refunds-for-delayed-or-cancelled-flights.html claim-refunds-for-delayed-or-cancelled-flights Claude Email & Inbox From the linked report, following a flight cancellation or delay, Claude compiles the facts, examines the regulations, and composes the refund request email. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/city-wide-indie-cinema-listings.html city-wide-indie-cinema-listings Custom agent Research & Data An LLM-heavy pipeline scrapes small cinema websites, cleans and classifies showtimes, and builds one listing for the city. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/check-taxes-against-receipts-and-bank-statements.html check-taxes-against-receipts-and-bank-statements Claude Finance One practitioner notes that the poster fed Claude Opus the numbers and dates from a more complicated household tax situation involving a spouse’s LLC, revenue and expense streams, and some public business names. Claude checked their first pass, caught issues like double-counted revenue and expenses and client attribution problems, rechecked the calculations, and produced a spreadsheet that Someone then entered into FreeTaxUSA; Someone says they also reviewed it against receipts and bank statements themselves. They say the final figures matched their receipts and bank statements after several prompts, and it helped enough that they skipped a CPA who had quoted $2,000. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/check-supplier-invoices-for-duplicates-and-missing-gst.html check-supplier-invoices-for-duplicates-and-missing-gst Custom agent Email & Inbox Community report: supplier invoices land in a shared inbox, an AP tool captures the invoice data, and an agent compares each one with prior transactions to spot duplicates, wrong amounts, and missing GST. The poster connected the workflow with nexos.ai, said setup for the anomaly-checking agent took about 20 minutes, and still does the final review and approval manually. The poster said this saves a surprising amount of time each month and now produces a weekly summary, shifting their time from data entry to review. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/check-prospect-fit-and-write-cold-email-openers.html check-prospect-fit-and-write-cold-email-openers Claude Code Email & Inbox Linked example of check prospect fit and write cold email openers. The poster starts with a broad company list exported from Apollo, then runs it through an AI segmentation tool they assembled with Claude Code. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/chase-unquoted-leads-and-book-callbacks.html chase-unquoted-leads-and-book-callbacks Grok Bot Email & Inbox Case study takeaway: a commenter described this as a service-business pattern they see people run: the agent watches the inbox or CRM, checks for leads that have gone 24 hours without a quote, and follows up to book callbacks. The same comment frames it as a recurring outreach/admin workflow rather than a one-off chat task, with the person choosing and driving the setup. The commenter says this is the biggest-ROI use case they see because service leads go cold fast. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/chase-unpaid-invoices-and-paperwork-by-email-for-small-firms.html chase-unpaid-invoices-and-paperwork-by-email-for-small-firms Custom agent Email & Inbox Linked example of chase unpaid invoices and paperwork by email for small firms. The poster describes an email-based collections and paperwork agent for small firms that keeps watch on unpaid invoices and missing admin, keeps chasing by email until it gets a yes, a no, or a payment, and hands anything needing judgment back to the owner. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/chase-an-airline-refund-dispute.html chase-an-airline-refund-dispute Custom agent Shopping Observed in the wild: user handed the full $1,200 flight refund dispute to the Instinct agent after two months of airline silence and stall tactics. The agent sent automated firm follow-ups every 48 hours to keep the thread alive, logged every broken promise and missed callback into a clean paper trail, and prepared a formal grievance letter to the aviation regulator. The airline processed the full refund within one week. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/catch-up-on-two-years-of-overdue-dutch-taxes.html catch-up-on-two-years-of-overdue-dutch-taxes Claude Code Finance Linked example of catch up on two years of overdue Dutch taxes. They assembled a local Python-based accounting workflow with Claude Code for a Dutch B.V. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/catch-intent-conflicts-between-parallel-coding-agents.html catch-intent-conflicts-between-parallel-coding-agents Claude Code Software Development As described in the source, foremerge is a local CLI and MCP server that Claude Code, Codex or Cursor agents are wired to. Each agent registers and publishes its intent with semantic scopes such as symbol:PaymentService before editing, then claims that scope. The second agent's published intent immediately raised a HIGH replace_vs_extend advisory, with no files changed. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/capture-leads-on-whatsapp-and-save-them-to-sheets.html capture-leads-on-whatsapp-and-save-them-to-sheets n8n Email & Inbox From the linked report, the n8n workflow starts with a WhatsApp trigger that feeds incoming messages to an AI agent. The agent asks the lead for name and email during the chat, then writes the data directly to Google Sheets. The demo shows the lead captured and saved automatically to Sheets. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/cancel-and-refund-subscriptions-by-searching-email-and-calling.html cancel-and-refund-subscriptions-by-searching-email-and-calling Grok Bot Email & Inbox Case study takeaway: grok Bot shows up in a write-up about cancel and refund subscriptions by searching email and calling. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/cancel-an-amazon-subscription-and-get-a-refund.html cancel-an-amazon-subscription-and-get-a-refund Codex Shopping From the linked report, someone asked Codex to obtain a refund for an Amazon subscription. Codex navigated the account settings to cancel it, then moved to the help page and opened a live chat with an associate. The associate approved the refund. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/cancel-adobe-subscription-without-early-termination-fee.html cancel-adobe-subscription-without-early-termination-fee ChatGPT Media & Content Real-world thread: the poster asked ChatGPT to handle Adobe support after both they and ChatGPT could not find a cancel button. In the chat, ChatGPT repeatedly asked Adobe to confirm the earliest cancellation date, any fee, when access would end, and the cost of letting the plan expire, while insisting Adobe not process a charge until those options were clear; the human only approved starting the chat and sent the final thank-you. Adobe first quoted an early termination fee of AUD 394. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/call-the-dmv-to-schedule-an-appointment.html call-the-dmv-to-schedule-an-appointment Custom agent Productivity According to the write-up, olivia Moore established a voice agent who contacted the DMV and booked an appointment in under 30 minutes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/call-hotels-to-verify-reservations-after-booking.html call-hotels-to-verify-reservations-after-booking Custom agent Travel & Booking Real-world thread: people used AI phone agents as personal assistants after booking, sending them to call hotels and verify that a reservation was entered correctly. In the thread, a front-desk worker says the agents repeatedly called back after being refused; the hotel would not confirm details because the caller could not be verified as the actual guest, so the human staffer had to keep blocking the request. The reported result was not successful confirmation but repeated nuisance calls that tied up the front desk. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/call-and-email-leads.html call-and-email-leads Custom agent Email & Inbox Community report: custom agent shows up in a write-up about call and email leads. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/call-a-dental-insurer-on-your-behalf.html call-a-dental-insurer-on-your-behalf Meta Muse Sales & Marketing A published walkthrough shows per a quoted passage in a Hacker News comment, Meta's AI agent placed an outbound call to the writer's dental insurer. It gave their member ID, answered a security question, and waited on hold. The call reached a human representative about ten minutes before the handoff, so Someone skipped the hold time. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/call-a-car-rental-company-to-add-an-infant-seat.html call-a-car-rental-company-to-add-an-infant-seat Grok Bot Shopping A published walkthrough shows someone asked JooVoice to order an infant seat for an existing rental car booking. The agent called the company, navigated the automated menu, and remained on hold until connected. The request was handled successfully from start to finish. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/buy-products-online-from-a-card-photo.html buy-products-online-from-a-card-photo Grok Bot Shopping Musk’s pitch on X: photo of a card into Grok Bot chat, agent shops and buys (LEGO called out as an example). What ships to consumers, and which guardrails apply, stayed unspecified. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/buy-movie-tickets-and-set-reminders-from-your-calendar.html buy-movie-tickets-and-set-reminders-from-your-calendar Meta Muse Personal Assistant Real-world thread: user asked their Meta Muse agent to build a custom skill for consistent theater bookings. The skill reviews Someone's calendar, confirms suitable movie dates and times, recalls preferred seat locations, purchases the ticket via the assembled-in Link integration and wallet, adds the reservation to the calendar, and sends a departure reminder that factors in traffic. The skill executes the full sequence on demand with no further reported outcomes or metrics. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/buy-items-on-amazon-from-a-photo.html buy-items-on-amazon-from-a-photo ChatGPT Agent Shopping Case study takeaway: the builder photographed a wrapper from an item they wanted again and told ChatGPT Agent to buy a new one on Amazon. The agent then handled the whole purchase process from that photo and instruction. It worked well until Amazon blocked ChatGPT Agent, which ended the workflow. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/buy-headphones-during-a-sale.html buy-headphones-during-a-sale Custom agent Sales & Marketing According to the write-up, the poster's headphones were purchased by an AI agent, and they also utilize a browser extension to purchase items for sales and receive price-reduction notifications. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/buy-a-sell-out-hyrox-event-ticket.html buy-a-sell-out-hyrox-event-ticket Grok Bot Productivity From the linked report, someone directed their Grok Bot to book a Hyrox ticket. The agent handled the purchase on its own and secured the spot. The ticket was obtained before sell-out. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/buy-a-microwave-from-costco.html buy-a-microwave-from-costco Meta Muse Productivity According to the write-up, someone's Meta Muse agent bought a microwave from Costco. The purchase was completed. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/bundle-monthly-vendor-invoices-for-the-accountant.html bundle-monthly-vendor-invoices-for-the-accountant Grok Bot Finance A published walkthrough shows the shared Grok Bot template runs on a schedule rather than waiting to be asked. It reads each invoice PDF and pulls the vendor, date, amount and invoice number. The page gives no results, numbers or time savings, and no examples of its output. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/bulk-unsubscribe-from-gmail-newsletters.html bulk-unsubscribe-from-gmail-newsletters Claude Cowork Email & Inbox From the linked report, in a Cowork project with the Gmail connector enabled, Ben Patterson asked Claude Sonnet to review his "archivable" label and list newsletters safe to unsubscribe from, without acting yet. Claude then quizzed him on each one in multiple-choice form with its own recommendation. Claude unsubscribed from 21 newsletters in about five minutes, one for each he chose to cut. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-your-own-video-editing-agents-on-a-canvas.html build-your-own-video-editing-agents-on-a-canvas Custom agent Media & Content Observed in the wild: the page describes Mosaic as a canvas for agentic video editing. You run edits on autopilot and make several variants from the same raw footage to A/B test. The page gives no results, numbers, or limitations. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-small-custom-agents-such-as-one-in-a-music-player.html build-small-custom-agents-such-as-one-in-a-music-player Custom agent Media & Content Real-world thread: the builder says they write lots of small agents instead of another coding agent, one of them inside their music player. They argue a useful agent's core takes very little code, so these are trivial as code artifacts. The source states no results or numbers. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-scored-sales-lead-profiles-and-outreach-drafts.html build-scored-sales-lead-profiles-and-outreach-drafts Gemini Sales & Marketing A published walkthrough shows the builder set up a custom Gem called Sales Lead Researcher with their offering and a four-part, 0-16 scoring framework. For each company, one command runs Deep Research and a second zeros in on a decision-maker, scores the company and sketches a short LinkedIn message. Deep Research cited 50-100+ sources per company and took 7-10 minutes each. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-retro-games.html build-retro-games Claude Code Knowledge & Notes One practitioner notes that from the linked report: using pixel art assets and a spec drafted via Claude's question tool, following builds games like a space shooter and an animal hospital game with his 7-year-old. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-purchase-orders-and-track-payables-nightly.html build-purchase-orders-and-track-payables-nightly Make Shopping According to the write-up, make.com automation was set up to build purchase orders and perform other tasks. It watches payables nightly on its own and updates estimating formulas in real time by pulling the most recent paid costs for materials such as deck boards or nails. Formulas stayed current through Covid amid weekly and monthly material price increases. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-profit-loss-statements-for-rental-properties.html build-profit-loss-statements-for-rental-properties Meta Muse Productivity According to the write-up, meta Muse received login access to Someone's property management software. The agent logged in on its own and generated a profit/loss statement for each rental property. It completed the statements for every rental. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-presentations-and-spreadsheets-from-web-research.html build-presentations-and-spreadsheets-from-web-research ChatGPT Agent Research & Data A published walkthrough shows daria Cupareanu Leaned on ChatGPT Agent Mode for three tasks. It assembled an AI-in-education deck from one near-bare prompt, then added her logo and brand colors. The deck was functional but not award-winning. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-old-and-new-apps.html build-old-and-new-apps Custom agent Knowledge & Notes One practitioner notes that terence Tao's post highlights the use of contemporary coding agents to develop or revive apps. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-multiple-apps-in-a-week-on-claude-max.html build-multiple-apps-in-a-week-on-claude-max Claude Code Business & Startups After switching from metered Cline to Claude Code on a fixed Claude Max plan, a developer felt free to experiment and built multiple apps from scratch in a week. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-group-grocery-carts-through-a-signal-based-agent.html build-group-grocery-carts-through-a-signal-based-agent Custom agent Shopping A published walkthrough shows the builder runs a self-hosted agent through Signal, with group chat limited to whitelisted accounts. It sketches a starter grocery list from past orders, kept locally or pulled from the store's site. Cart building works end to end. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-game-architecture-and-animation-merging.html build-game-architecture-and-animation-merging Codex Productivity Community report: codex shows up in a write-up about build game architecture and animation merging. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-four-games-in-parallel.html build-four-games-in-parallel Grok Bot Productivity Community report: grok Bot shows up in a write-up about build four games in parallel, with figures like 4.20, 8. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-e-ink-fridge-shopping-list-firmware.html build-e-ink-fridge-shopping-list-firmware Claude Code Shopping According to the write-up, the repo holds about 2,400 lines of C++ firmware for the M5Stack PaperMono, an ESP32-S3 with an e-paper touchscreen. A small FastAPI and SQLite server sits between the device and a phone web UI. It works as a fridge shopping list grouped by aisle, with offline use and queued edits. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-data-analysis-reports-and-dashboards.html build-data-analysis-reports-and-dashboards Custom agent Software Development Documented elsewhere: custom agent shows up in a write-up about build data analysis reports and dashboards. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-dashboards-and-troubleshoot-support-cases.html build-dashboards-and-troubleshoot-support-cases Microsoft Scout Knowledge & Notes Linked example of build dashboards and troubleshoot support cases. Commenters describe Microsoft Scout as a desktop agent tied into WorkIQ and Microsoft 365 connectors like email, Teams, SharePoint, Word, and PowerPoint, with support for custom skills and MCPs via the same .copilot directory as Copilot CLI. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-custom-real-estate-tools-for-offers-and-deal-tracking.html build-custom-real-estate-tools-for-offers-and-deal-tracking Codex Productivity Real-world thread: a real estate entrepreneur said they used Codex to build custom internal tools their team uses every day rather than off-the-shelf software. The tools they named were a program for formulating offer prices while on the phone, a property analysis report builder that used photos from the field, and a custom transaction-management tool for tracking deals already under contract; the post does not spell out the build steps or any manual review process. The reported result was operational use inside the business: these tools were in daily use by the team. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-and-test-a-mars-simulator-game.html build-and-test-a-mars-simulator-game Grok Bot Knowledge & Notes One practitioner notes that someone gave Grok Build simple prompts to create a Mars simulator game for his nephew. The agent wrote the systems, assembled and tested the game, studied the gameplay, located and fixed bugs, then kept iterating on its own. It produced a working Mars simulator game. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-and-submit-a-family-quest-app-to-the-app-store.html build-and-submit-a-family-quest-app-to-the-app-store Replit Agent Home & Family Observed in the wild: someone, a mother of three with no prior coding experience, partnered with Replit Agent to develop Kogoto Quest from initial idea through full implementation, RevenueCat integration for premium AI features, and App Store submission prep. The agent performed the coding and setup steps while Someone provided direction and oversight throughout. The app was submitted for App Store review. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-and-publish-a-bazi-chart-reading-agent.html build-and-publish-a-bazi-chart-reading-agent Codex Software Development A published walkthrough shows the developer used AI coding agents to build the full stack solo. The agent received a deterministic BaZi calendar engine to compute exact charts from birth data powered by solar terms, stem-branch calendar and 10-year luck cycles, then interpreted results while auto-detecting language for output plus chart image. It went live on the OKX AI Marketplace as Agent #4939 and settled over 20 real transactions. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-and-order-a-grocery-cart-from-an-idea.html build-and-order-a-grocery-cart-from-an-idea Meta Muse Shopping Observed in the wild: muse received an Instacart connector and user access to a preferred store. Someone gave a phrase such as "Taco Tuesday"; Muse then selected matching items, populated the cart, completed checkout, and booked delivery through the same Instacart flow. No performance numbers or completion rates are stated. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-and-launch-a-landing-page.html build-and-launch-a-landing-page OpenClaw Sales & Marketing Documented elsewhere: openClaw shows up in a write-up about build and launch a landing page. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-and-launch-a-code-snippet-sharing-app.html build-and-launch-a-code-snippet-sharing-app Replit Agent Knowledge & Notes Case study takeaway: the poster says they assembled the Snippra app itself with Replit Agent while keeping the main website on WordPress. They describe feeding the agent a UI reference image from Behance via Figma, asking it to clone the design, then powered by it for UI copy, dummy snippets, feature planning, debugging, naming, and idea refinement while they steered prompts and tweaked the result. They launched Snippra live with 40+ languages, custom categories, shareable links, and a Pro snippet-to-social image feature. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-and-deploy-a-meeting-app-from-a-prompt.html build-and-deploy-a-meeting-app-from-a-prompt Replit Agent Software Development Linked example of build and deploy a meeting app from a prompt. User entered one prompt into Replit describing a meeting management app that tracks agendas, participants, and action items plus analytics for effectiveness, participation, and follow-up. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-an-invitation-card-website-purely-by-prompting.html build-an-invitation-card-website-purely-by-prompting Cursor Productivity Case study takeaway: fabio Zapata gave Cursor a first prompt describing the page's goals, look and technical approach, and let it run console commands. The envelope animation went badly for 15–20 minutes of vague feedback. The site took 2–3 hours, against his estimate of 4–8 by hand. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-an-icloud-skill.html build-an-icloud-skill Meta Muse Productivity Documented elsewhere: the Muse agent was tasked with creating an iCloud feature by a user of a screen-reader, but it was hindered by accessibility issues in the text section and conversation navigation. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-an-explorable-3d-starship.html build-an-explorable-3d-starship Custom agent Media & Content Community report: custom agent shows up in a write-up about build an explorable 3D starship, with figures like 3. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-an-email-inbox-app-for-the-bot-x27-s-address.html build-an-email-inbox-app-for-the-bot-x27-s-address Grok Bot Email & Inbox From the linked report, grok Bot shows up in a write-up about build an email inbox app for the bot's address, with figures like 23. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-an-e-commerce-agent.html build-an-e-commerce-agent OpenClaw Automation Observed in the wild: utilized OpenClaw to build an e-commerce workflow agent, spending over 100 hours and 200 million tokens, and emphasizing the build effort in this post. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-an-artificial-life-simulator-in-one-html-file.html build-an-artificial-life-simulator-in-one-html-file Grok Bot Productivity Linked example of build an artificial life simulator in one HTML file. Four Grok 4.20 (Beta) agents received the prompt to create one self-contained HTML file simulating hundreds of glowing neon particles across six cyberpunk colors, with a 6x6 matrix of attraction/repulsion sliders, click-to-spawn controls, randomize button, pause/speed/particle-count toggles, and optional trails plus dark UI effects. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-an-ai-to-do-list-web-app-in-9-hours.html build-an-ai-to-do-list-web-app-in-9-hours Replit Agent Productivity One sitting with Replit’s Agent V2 stretched from first prompt to a working AI to-do web app—call it a long workday, roughly nine hours on the clock. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-thyroid-episode-warning-model-from-wearable-data.html build-a-thyroid-episode-warning-model-from-wearable-data Claude Code Productivity One practitioner notes that the poster exported 9.5 years of Apple Watch data through Apple Health plus Whoop data, labeled periods that matched hyperthyroid phases, and gave Claude Code the dataset to build a detector. In comments, they said Claude tried many models for over an hour, landed on XGBoost, engineered 53 features before keeping three resting-heart-rate features, and the poster also held out the most recent episode to manually test the result. They said the backtest on the held-out episode would have flagged trouble in early August before labs confirmed it at the end of the month. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-spending-insights-app-from-bank-transactions.html build-a-spending-insights-app-from-bank-transactions Replit Agent Finance Observed in the wild: you set up a Replit account and a Plaid dashboard account, then copy your client ID and secret into Replit, which stores them in a vault. Next you add Plaid as a connector and link your bank, or use sandbox data first. The post reports no results from a finished app. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-self-hosted-bookkeeping-and-finance-app.html build-a-self-hosted-bookkeeping-and-finance-app Claude Finance According to the write-up, the poster first used ChatGPT for a high-level accounting plan, then had Claude turn it into an implementation plan, and used Codex to find gaps before sending revisions back through Claude’s UltraPlan for a few rounds. They then ran the plan to build a self-hosted Mac app where bank transactions come in through an MCP, Claude tags them to Schedule C categories, uncertain items go to a review queue, and the poster’s fixes become reusable rules. They say it handled a couple thousand transactions, was assembled end to end in two days covering a simple Android dashboard app, and cut their software spend from about $524 a year to a $60 yearly bank-feed cost. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-report-writing-program-for-real-estate-appraisals.html build-a-report-writing-program-for-real-estate-appraisals Claude Productivity Case study takeaway: a real estate appraiser in South Korea said they used Claude Code to build a report-writing program for appraisal work, despite having no coding or software background. Over about two months, they iterated heavily, spending a lot of tokens and moving past repeated frustrations, after an earlier attempt to build a similar system with professional developers had failed because the workflow was hard to communicate. They said the tool removed much of the repetitive reporting work, coworkers located it impressive, and the firm was likely to adopt it officially. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-racing-game-from-a-single-prompt.html build-a-racing-game-from-a-single-prompt Codex Productivity From the linked report, codex got one detailed prompt for a Three.js voxel kart racer, plus an image generation skill and a web game development skill. It then worked alone, acting as designer, developer and QA tester by playing the game. The build produced a racing game with different racers, eight maps and space-bar items, powered by over 7 million tokens. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-project-management-tool.html build-a-project-management-tool Cursor Productivity One practitioner notes that cursor covered build a project management tool. from the linked report: powered by a Cursor agent for 24 hours, developed a project management tool that is fully functional but not yet ready for production. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-profitable-online-business-from-scratch.html build-a-profitable-online-business-from-scratch OpenClaw Sales & Marketing Real-world thread: utilized content marketing on Reddit, Twitter, and LinkedIn to establish an online business that attracted over 400 visitors, and gave $50 to an OpenClaw/Claude agent for a 60-day timeframe. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-portfolio-plan-from-brokerage-exports.html build-a-portfolio-plan-from-brokerage-exports Claude Code Finance Observed in the wild: matt Stockton pointed Claude Code at a directory with brokerage CSV exports, a typed scratchpad of other balances, and a detailed goal prompt covering constraints, strawman targets and "ask me questions exhaustively". Claude wrote Python to parse and classify holdings, then assembled a gap analysis. It produced a ten-section plan with a four-phase action plan, tax payback tables and fund research. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-phone-voice-agent-that-answers-in-under-half-a-second.html build-a-phone-voice-agent-that-answers-in-under-half-a-second Custom agent Productivity Observed in the wild: a voice agent transmitting speech-to-text, LLM, and clean barge-ins with an average averaging of roughly 400ms from start to finish. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-personal-research-wiki-from-papers-and-articles.html build-a-personal-research-wiki-from-papers-and-articles Cursor Knowledge & Notes One practitioner notes that the vault folder is opened in both Cursor and Obsidian. Sources go into an immutable raw/ folder, and an AGENTS.md file sets the wiki's conventions. The source is a pattern description, not a report with results. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-personal-assistant-for-email-briefings-and-planning.html build-a-personal-assistant-for-email-briefings-and-planning Hermes Agent Email & Inbox According to the write-up, marc installed Hermes Agent from Nous Research as a chat interface. He added more than 50 capabilities himself, such as email triage, daily briefings, calendar and task planning, meeting notes, and research radars. The agent became an operating layer across Marc's work, research, personal organisation and family life within 15 days. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-paid-ad-campaign-from-scraped-brand-and-competitor-data.html build-a-paid-ad-campaign-from-scraped-brand-and-competitor-data Custom agent Design & Creative From the linked report, custom agent shows up in a write-up about build a paid ad campaign from scraped brand and competitor data. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-newsletter-performance-dashboard-without-coding.html build-a-newsletter-performance-dashboard-without-coding Claude Code Email & Inbox Community report: the builder, who says they don't write code, described in plain English a dashboard for tracking newsletter performance across their whole network. Claude Code, run from the terminal, assembled a working tool from that text description. The builder says the dashboard existed about 30 minutes after they described it, replacing work they Leaned on to pay contractors $2,000-5,000 for. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-multilingual-typing-app-for-language-learning.html build-a-multilingual-typing-app-for-language-learning Replit Agent Productivity A published walkthrough shows lingoType, a typing app for learning languages, was created as a result of a buildathon participant's use of Replit Agent. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-multi-tenant-saas.html build-a-multi-tenant-saas Replit Agent Productivity From the linked report, replit Agent was utilized to construct a multi-tenant SaaS production version within 15 days, but encountered complications such as RLS bypasses and production database errors, necessitating its verification. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-mobile-app-turning-photos-and-voice-into-reminders.html build-a-mobile-app-turning-photos-and-voice-into-reminders Replit Agent Knowledge & Notes Observed in the wild: in about 45 days powered by Replit, with put together Loopi and an app that turns photos. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-mental-models-framework.html build-a-mental-models-framework Claude Software Development As described in the source, claude shows up in a write-up about build a mental models framework, with figures like 120. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-medication-reminder-pill-dispenser-that-alerts-caregivers.html build-a-medication-reminder-pill-dispenser-that-alerts-caregivers OpenClaw Productivity Community report: OpenClaw was pointed at build a medication reminder pill dispenser that alerts caregivers. how an OpenClaw agent on a Raspberry Pi pill dispenser works: it logs the doses, makes adjustments to the reminders, cameras the dispensing, and sends a missed dose alert to carers . Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-health-plan-from-genetic-and-bloodwork-data.html build-a-health-plan-from-genetic-and-bloodwork-data Claude Code Home & Family A published walkthrough shows farzad uploaded his full raw 23andme genetic file, ways2well bloodwork, artery plaque scans, and complete supplement routine to Claude Code. The agent reviewed the datasets and discussed genetic predispositions with him over a 2-hour conversation. A tailored plan based on his specific genes and health markers resulted. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-game-level-from-a-design-document.html build-a-game-level-from-a-design-document Grok Bot Media & Content Real-world thread: the poster used Grok 4.5 to build level 2 of an existing Three.js game from a very detailed game design document, powered by their own game-dev harness as the setup around the model. The source only says the level was AI-assembled and then manually cleaned up and polished afterward by the poster. The result was a playable new level for the existing game, but the poster said it still lacked in several areas and they were polishing it. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-full-ad-campaign-from-a-client-x27-s-website.html build-a-full-ad-campaign-from-a-client-x27-s-website Custom agent Productivity Documented elsewhere: custom agent shows up in a write-up about build a full ad campaign from a client's website. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-first-real-project.html build-a-first-real-project Replit Agent Finance One practitioner notes that replit Agent was utilized by a student who had just completed a real build, resulting in an unexpected expense of approximately $65. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-dramatic-digital-envelope-app-for-asking-friends-for-money.html build-a-dramatic-digital-envelope-app-for-asking-friends-for-money Replit Agent Media & Content Buildathon gag app: fake chat bubbles, drum rolls, live progress bars—then the real ask for cash. Stack was Replit Agent with Design Mode driving the UI theatrics. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-deals-page-step-by-step.html build-a-deals-page-step-by-step Devin Software Development Real-world thread: devin shows up in a write-up about build a deals page step by step, with figures like 10. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-custom-agent-to-search-cyprus-villa-rentals.html build-a-custom-agent-to-search-cyprus-villa-rentals Custom agent Travel & Booking As described in the source, marc Lou prompted an AI agent to pull public Cyprus real estate datasets and merge them with public AQI, water quality, noise maps, and landslide susceptibility layers. The agent then generated an Airbnb-style interface from the combined data. The site shows villa listings with environmental overlays and refreshes data every twenty-four hours. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-company-structure.html build-a-company-structure Claude Code Sales & Marketing Community report: as described in the source: founded a business with the assistance of Claude Code agents, who also have a marketing representative responsible for brand identity and color selection. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-clinic-app.html build-a-clinic-app Replit Agent Travel & Booking Community report: replit Agent shows up in a write-up about build a clinic app, with figures like 5. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-cardiac-health-tracking-app.html build-a-cardiac-health-tracking-app Claude Software Development Community report: after a November 2025 hospitalization for dehydration, the poster started with a spreadsheet and then used months of back-and-forth with Claude to turn it into ClinBridge, a progressive web app for tracking blood pressure, fluid intake, weight, heart rate, symptoms, meals, and activity. He says Claude helped build and word the project, while he decided the requirements; the app installs on a phone, works offline, and keeps data on the device. He says the app reached version 9. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-buy-order-imbalance-scanner.html build-a-buy-order-imbalance-scanner Replit Agent Productivity From the linked report, a representative of Replit created a functional buy order imbalance scanner powered by demo credits, as stated by the agent. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-budgeting-app-from-a-single-prompt.html build-a-budgeting-app-from-a-single-prompt Replit Agent Finance As described in the source, as an early test of Replit Agent, The builder gave it one long prompt describing a budgeting tool: monthly budgets per category, a dashboard with pie and line charts, an expense log, and local data storage. They then refined it with 7-8 more prompts over about 20 minutes into 'Budget Buddy'. It reached a working prototype in roughly 20-30 minutes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-browser-game-and-train-an-agent-to-play-it.html build-a-browser-game-and-train-an-agent-to-play-it Grok Bot Productivity One practitioner notes that someone prompted Grok to create the Roofline browser game. Grok afterward trained a PPO agent to interact directly with the live page at roof.grok.me. The best recorded run reached 39,359 score, 4,924 meters, and combo 117. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-browser-4x-strategy-game.html build-a-browser-4x-strategy-game Gemini Productivity Community report: utilizing Grok and Gemini, the combat engine, fog-of-war, map generation, and heuristic AI were developed in Hexwardia, a browser 4X game that was built in two weeks. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-booking-and-payment-app-for-tattoo-artists.html build-a-booking-and-payment-app-for-tattoo-artists Replit Agent Travel & Booking As described in the source, on Thursday night he opened a blank repl and typed one paragraph asking for a Calendly-style calendar, Google OAuth, Stripe deposits and Postmark notifications. Replit Agent sketched the backend, wired Stripe, set up calendar integration and scaffolded a React front end. He ended up with a working prototype: client booking, artist dashboards, onboarding, conflict handling and Postmark confirmation emails. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-book-donation-app-and-demo-video-in-a-buildathon.html build-a-book-donation-app-and-demo-video-in-a-buildathon Replit Agent Media & Content Community report: during the 24-hour Replit 10 buildathon, Someone directed Replit Agent to build the GiveABook app that lets people list books, drop them off, and arrange Sunday pickup for nearby readers. The agent also generated the demo video. The full app launched at the provided Replit link along with its demo video. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-benchmark-image-collage-in-canva.html build-a-benchmark-image-collage-in-canva ChatGPT Agent Media & Content Community report: the builder asked ChatGPT Agent to pull the benchmark images from OpenAI's announcement post and arrange them in Canva, with red rectangles around the Agent's columns. The builder solved a CAPTCHA and logged into Canva by hand, then redirected the agent when it tried to draw the charts itself. It took over 75 minutes and the collage was rough. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-bare-bones-windows-vnc-client-from-an-email-brief.html build-a-bare-bones-windows-vnc-client-from-an-email-brief Claude Email & Inbox Real-world thread: the builder emailed Claude a brief asking for a bare-bones x64 Windows 10 VNC viewer. It would connect only to localhost:5921 through an SSH tunnel, show only the remote cursor, and run at max quality over gigabit LAN. Claude kept producing broken builds, Leaned on up the whole 20x Max weekly limit, and was still delivering broken code after the reset three days later. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-balloon-camel-simulator-for-an-led-burning-man-totem.html build-a-balloon-camel-simulator-for-an-led-burning-man-totem Claude Code Knowledge & Notes One practitioner notes that the builder Leaned on ChatGPT to generate reference images and prompts, then had Claude Code build a Go physics simulation of balloons streaming geometry to a web frontend. Step one was nearly one-shot; step two added multiple balloons with twists. The simulator worked and exported models, but the result looked like a cross between a poop emoji and an alien dildo, not Koons-like. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-wordpress-marketing-site-from-figma-overnight.html build-a-wordpress-marketing-site-from-figma-overnight Devin Sales & Marketing From the linked report, bnistordev gave Devin AI access to the Figma file for the new marketing site via MCP. The agent then assembled the full WordPress frontend plus content management features on its own while people sleep. Output quality matched work he would quote €2. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-telegram-bot-that-sends-emails-and-checks-calendar.html build-a-telegram-bot-that-sends-emails-and-checks-calendar Replit Agent Personal Assistant Julian Goldie used Replit agents/automations (with an OpenAI key and Outlook OAuth) to ship a Telegram bot that checks calendar gaps and sends Outlook invites in 28 chat turns. Beta quirks included weak playground memory and occasional formatting glitches. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-rust-game-engine.html build-a-rust-game-engine Grok Bot Productivity Documented elsewhere: grok Bot shows up in a write-up about build a Rust game engine. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-pokemon-style-dog-collecting-app.html build-a-pokemon-style-dog-collecting-app Replit Agent Productivity As described in the source, someone instructed Replit Agent to build the full app. The agent scraped American Kennel Club regional population data to set dog rarity values for catches. App was completed as a dog-themed catch-em-all experience. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-diy-slide-tower-with-a-subagent.html build-a-diy-slide-tower-with-a-subagent Claude Code Home & Family A parent spun up a Claude Code subagent to help design and document building a backyard slide tower for their child. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-c-compiler.html build-a-c-compiler Claude Software Development Observed in the wild: claude shows up in a write-up about build a C compiler, with figures like 4.6. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-52-node-n8n-workflow.html build-a-52-node-n8n-workflow Claude computer use Automation A published walkthrough shows someone tasked Claude Computer Use with building a 52-node n8n workflow. The agent performed the full build on its own in one afternoon. The workflow was completed in one afternoon rather than the three weekends required previously. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-a-3d-blender-model-from-a-concept-image.html build-a-3d-blender-model-from-a-concept-image ChatGPT Media & Content Real-world thread: the builder generated a concept image of a Fabergé egg with ChatGPT images, pasted it into a coding agent, and asked it to use its local Blender skill to build a Blender model of the egg. The skill is a repository The builder links, with a separate write-up on running Blender from coding agents on a Mac. The source doesn't describe the result, the number of steps, or any problems. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-sqlite.html build-sqlite Custom agent Software Development From the linked report, custom agent shows up in a write-up about build SQLite. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-godot-games.html build-godot-games Claude Cowork Media & Content Community report: claude Cowork shows up in a write-up about build Godot games. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/build-alexa-routines-to-regulate-a-daily-schedule.html build-alexa-routines-to-regulate-a-daily-schedule Alexa+ Productivity Real-world thread: the writer assembled Alexa Routines across the day on Echo speakers and other smart devices, after getting tips from a psychotherapist. At 11AM and 3PM Alexa asks about mood and water intake and reminds her about lunch. She says the routines helped her regulate her day and improved her mental health and productivity. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/brainstorm-domain-names-and-check-availability.html brainstorm-domain-names-and-check-availability Claude Code Business & Startups A founder describes a project to Claude Code, which proposes creative names across TLDs and checks which ones are free to register. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/boring-chores-for-a-coding-agent.html boring-chores-for-a-coding-agent Claude Code Software Development A how-to collects mundane tasks, like file renames and conversions, that a coding agent handles well. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/book-weekly-restaurants-and-surface-daily-discoveries-from-your-data.html book-weekly-restaurants-and-surface-daily-discoveries-from-your-data OpenClaw Personal Assistant Your past ChatGPT threads, Google trail, and Instagram likes become fuel for an OpenClaw helper that reserves weekly tables, pings daily discoveries, and keeps proposed memory updates in a holding pen. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/book-tutoring-appointments-over-whatsapp.html book-tutoring-appointments-over-whatsapp Custom agent Personal Assistant A published walkthrough shows marcoKueks, who operates a small AI agency and is not an engineer, put together a WhatsApp agent for a tutoring company that books calendar appointments. He Leaned on Struere, a platform he assembled to handle the recurring WhatsApp-to-calendar-to-database plumbing. It shipped in two days for a $5K fee. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/book-travel-and-find-restaurant-reservations.html book-travel-and-find-restaurant-reservations Claude Travel & Booking From the linked report, claude drives a Chrome browser through Chrome MCP. Claire has it book her flights and hotels in her company's travel booking system. The source gives no results or timings for either use. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/book-the-best-priced-flight-and-later-refund-it.html book-the-best-priced-flight-and-later-refund-it Claude Code Travel & Booking A published walkthrough shows someone asked Claude Code to find the best price, and it booked the flight on its own three months ahead. Separately, @bot obtained the refund by talking to the airline for 24 hours. The ticket was successfully refunded. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/book-tables-and-watch-for-openings-or-price-drops.html book-tables-and-watch-for-openings-or-price-drops Custom agent Travel & Booking Observed in the wild: the agent receives a booking request for tables or travel. It completes the reservation on its own and continues monitoring afterward for newly available slots or lower fares. It acts ahead of Someone checking, unlike list-only chatbots. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/book-restaurants-and-snipe-campsites-and-tickets.html book-restaurants-and-snipe-campsites-and-tickets Grok Bot Travel & Booking Real-world thread: grok Bot received calendar access and booking site logins. It read schedules, selected a dinner time, booked the restaurant reservation, and renegotiated in mixed Chinese and English. The restaurant example received 937 likes and reached 4. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/book-restaurants-and-a-hotel-dinner-in-japanese.html book-restaurants-and-a-hotel-dinner-in-japanese Meta Muse Travel & Booking A published walkthrough shows muse received the Japan trip details and was tasked with handling all restaurant bookings. It made the reservations on its own across multiple sites, then exchanged messages in Japanese directly with the Hakone hotel to request and confirm a dinner slot that did not appear on the hotel website. Every restaurant reservation was completed. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/book-flights-hotel-and-rental-car.html book-flights-hotel-and-rental-car Grok Bot Travel & Booking From the linked report, someone gave Grok bot access to email and booking services for life admin tasks. The agent booked flights, hotel and rental car. All listed tasks were completed. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/book-flights-and-hotels-stopping-at-payment-for-approval.html book-flights-and-hotels-stopping-at-payment-for-approval Claude Cowork Travel & Booking Community report: boris Cherny put his flight preferences in Cowork instructions and let Opus 4.7 book while he kept working in Claude Code. The guide's setup is Claude in Chrome with browser actions allowed, an Expedia connector, and a Flight Booker project. Cherny said Opus 4. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/book-flights.html book-flights Meta Muse Travel & Booking As described in the source, meta Muse shows up in a write-up about book flights. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/book-appointments-by-clicking-through-booking-sites.html book-appointments-by-clicking-through-booking-sites ChatGPT Agent Travel & Booking Linked example of book appointments by clicking through booking sites. The post says to start ChatGPT agent mode from the tools or + menu, or by typing /agent, then give it the booking task, either the booking URL or instructions to find a provider, your availability, and an instruction to stop before confirming or entering personal details. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/book-appointments-and-send-emails-and-messages.html book-appointments-and-send-emails-and-messages ChatGPT Agent Email & Inbox One practitioner notes that the poster said they used ChatGPT agent for two days to book appointments, send emails, and send messages to their boss. In the comments, they explained one concrete workflow: they had it find tutor contact details and write 10 personalized outreach emails in one prompt, and when it needed mail access it paused to ask them to sign into their email before continuing. They said the agent actually sent the emails and felt dramatically more useful than expected. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/book-an-airport-hotel.html book-an-airport-hotel ChatGPT Agent Travel & Booking Community report: chatGPT Agent shows up in a write-up about book an airport hotel. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/book-accommodation-up-to-payment-stage.html book-accommodation-up-to-payment-stage Custom agent Travel & Booking One practitioner notes that a tech creator instructed GPT-6 Astra to book Tirupati accommodation. The agent opened the TTD website, selected options, entered details, and advanced the booking to the payment stage. The process completed to the payment stage in this showcase. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/book-a-vet-appointment-through-a-clinic-x27-s-ai-phone-bot.html book-a-vet-appointment-through-a-clinic-x27-s-ai-phone-bot Custom agent Home & Family Community report: custom agent shows up in a write-up about book a vet appointment through a clinic's AI phone bot, with figures like 30. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/book-a-restaurant-table-through-a-resy-connector.html book-a-restaurant-table-through-a-resy-connector Claude Shopping Real-world thread: the writer added the Resy connector to Claude through Customize > Connectors, then chatted about where to eat near his Midtown apartment (table for three, around 6:30 pm). Claude suggested The Smith and pulled up availability. Claude picked a good restaurant and showed open slots, but the writer still had to finish the reservation on Resy himself. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/book-a-restaurant-table.html book-a-restaurant-table Alexa+ Shopping Real-world thread: alexa+ shows up in a write-up about book a restaurant table. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/book-a-restaurant.html book-a-restaurant Dots Shopping Case study takeaway: dots shows up in a write-up about book a restaurant. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/book-a-private-chef-and-plan-a-ski-holiday.html book-a-private-chef-and-plan-a-ski-holiday ChatGPT Travel & Booking From the linked report, chatGPT received casual spoken instructions while Someone walked the dog. For the chef it located candidates, drafted and sent quote and availability emails, processed incoming replies, produced decision summaries, and tracked missing details. The agent produced usable summaries and quotes that let Someone select a chef and assemble a full DIY trip for two families. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/book-a-kid-x27-s-dental-checkup-by-phone-agent.html book-a-kid-x27-s-dental-checkup-by-phone-agent Custom agent Productivity Observed in the wild: a group of eight AI phone-call agents were tested to book a dental checkup on weekdays and following 3pm, powered by artificial intelligence. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/book-a-flight-from-your-phone.html book-a-flight-from-your-phone ChatGPT Travel & Booking Phone in one hand, dog in the other—Tom still got a flight reserved through ChatGPT Work. After a short personal-info quiz, payment happened inside a remote browser session he controlled. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/book-a-flight-end-to-end-through-an-agent.html book-a-flight-end-to-end-through-an-agent Claude Travel & Booking Case study takeaway: user added the Flightclaw MCP URL to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor afterward signed in with an email code. Asked the agent to book a flight; it searched ~300 airlines on its own and returned one secure checkout link. Agent returned a booking reference following payment. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/book-a-dentist-appointment-agent-to-agent.html book-a-dentist-appointment-agent-to-agent Custom agent Productivity From the linked report, someone told their AI agent to book a dentist appointment. The dentist's agent shifted the slot 30 minutes; Someone's agent rejected that and offered three other times. The agents moved into arbitration over the fee and timing. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/book-a-new-delhi-to-mumbai-flight.html book-a-new-delhi-to-mumbai-flight Claude computer use Travel & Booking Case study takeaway: claude computer use shows up in a write-up about book a New Delhi to Mumbai flight. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/block-spam-and-deliver-morning-briefings.html block-spam-and-deliver-morning-briefings Grok Bot Personal Assistant Community report: someone gave their Grok bot access to all email accounts, LinkedIn, calendar, and an ongoing business launch. The agent blocks and removes spam from email and LinkedIn, blocks spam calendar invites, and produces a daily morning update covering critical items plus any unfinished personal or business to-dos from the prior day. No results, metrics, or limitations are stated. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/batch-convert-and-translate-audio-files.html batch-convert-and-translate-audio-files Claude Code Media & Content A creator uses Claude Code to change sample rates, rename, and translate Portuguese audio files to English in bulk. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/automate-web-form-entry-and-gmail-cleanup.html automate-web-form-entry-and-gmail-cleanup Claude Email & Inbox Community report: in "Act without asking" mode, Claude for Chrome assembled a seven-field Google Form. It then worked across a Google Sheet and the form, planning a task list and submitting one registration per Engineering employee. The first two forms were correct. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/automate-web-configuration-from-coding-sessions.html automate-web-configuration-from-coding-sessions Claude Software Development Linked example of automate web configuration from coding sessions. In the thread, one commenter says they use Claude in Chrome during coding to handle web configuration tasks they would otherwise do manually. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/automate-simple-discord-tasks-and-tutoring.html automate-simple-discord-tasks-and-tutoring Hermes Agent Productivity According to the write-up, hermes Agent covered automate simple Discord tasks and tutoring. employs Hermes Agent as a private tutor and to automate straightforward tasks on Discord. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/automate-payroll-tax-and-garnishment-cheque-processing.html automate-payroll-tax-and-garnishment-cheque-processing Custom agent Finance A published walkthrough shows the payroll team assembled an AI agent to automate tax and garnishment cheque processing. When the agent hit a system limitation, the team assembled the missing tools and connected the workflow. The agent removed repetitive work for the payroll team. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/automate-legal-drafting-and-workflows.html automate-legal-drafting-and-workflows Claude Code Productivity From the linked report, claude Code shows up in a write-up about automate legal drafting and workflows. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/automate-lead-research-crm-updates-and-enrichment.html automate-lead-research-crm-updates-and-enrichment Claude Code Sales & Marketing Linked example of automate lead research, CRM updates and enrichment. Commenters described agent workflows for prospecting-adjacent work rather than pure copywriting. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/automate-invoices-payments-and-refunds.html automate-invoices-payments-and-refunds n8n Automation A published walkthrough shows the setup was a single n8n workflow triggered by a webhook, with API-key validation up front and separate routes for invoice, payment, and refund events. It used Google Sheets for records, PDFbro to create invoice PDFs, Google Drive to store them, and Resend to send emails; before each path ran, it checked for duplicates, then updated statuses, links, balances, and timestamps after processing. The result was an end-to-end flow that kept invoice, payment, and refund handling in one orchestration layer while preventing duplicate records and duplicate notifications. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/automate-invoice-organizing-and-monthly-invoice-emails.html automate-invoice-organizing-and-monthly-invoice-emails Cursor Finance From the linked report, the builder opened a folder of invoices with inconsistent names and formats in Cursor and gave instructions. The agent read the files, renamed them and moved them into folders. The builder says the tasks, about 10 minutes a month for filing and 10 to 20 minutes for invoice emails, can be compressed. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/automate-freelance-admin.html automate-freelance-admin OpenClaw Personal Assistant From the linked report, openClaw shows up in a write-up about automate freelance admin, with figures like 9, 20. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/automate-follow-ups-and-inventory-tracking-for-a-food-distributor.html automate-follow-ups-and-inventory-tracking-for-a-food-distributor Custom agent Email & Inbox Real-world thread: custom agent shows up in a write-up about automate follow-ups and inventory tracking for a food distributor. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/automate-event-social-posting-across-platforms.html automate-event-social-posting-across-platforms Claude Code Productivity A published walkthrough shows the poster used Claude Code to connect their social channels for promoting the AI x Marketing Summit in San Francisco on May 28–29 and drive registrations. From the thread, the setup let Claude handle cross-platform posting, and the person judged the results by platform rather than describing a fully hands-off workflow; comments mostly discuss alternative stacks rather than extra implementation detail. It worked well on Twitter and Reddit, which the poster called super smooth, and only somewhat on LinkedIn. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/automate-email-replies-form-data-extraction-and-lead-notes.html automate-email-replies-form-data-extraction-and-lead-notes Lindy Email & Inbox A published walkthrough shows and wiring small AI workflows around lead handling, with tried Lindy and Gumloop for drafting email replies. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/automate-client-onboarding-and-schedule-pdfs.html automate-client-onboarding-and-schedule-pdfs n8n Automation According to the write-up, they assembled two n8n workflows around a Google Sheet. One triggers when a new booking is marked for onboarding, pulls that client’s upcoming sessions, creates a temporary Google Doc, turns it into a personalized PDF, emails the welcome pack with the trainer CC’d, then updates the sheet so it cannot resend; a second 8am workflow checks for sessions 30 or 7 days out and repeats the PDF-and-email process for reminders. The result was that every client automatically got a welcome pack plus 30-day and 7-day reminders with no manual sending. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/automate-a-day-job-as-an-automation-engineer.html automate-a-day-job-as-an-automation-engineer Claude Research & Data From the linked report, the poster had Claude write a Python script for a contracting job that pulls information from websites, because doing it manually was too time consuming. They use Claude as the decision-maker around that code: they tell it to start, it runs the workflow and returns the finished work, and the human mainly supplies the field expertise about where to look and submits the result. The poster says it now covers what had been a 40-hour-a-week job and that their own involvement is down to about 10 minutes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/automate-saas-bookkeeping-and-reconciliation-in-zoho-books.html automate-saas-bookkeeping-and-reconciliation-in-zoho-books Hermes Agent Finance From the linked report, the founder connected Hermes Agent to Gmail, Zoho Books, Aspire bank, Stripe and Telegram, and uploaded a 72-account chart of accounts. The agent wrote its own Python scripts against the official APIs, with no MCP servers. Setup took about 6–8 hours. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/auto-post-scheduled-images-to-instagram-and-pinterest.html auto-post-scheduled-images-to-instagram-and-pinterest Make Media & Content Case study takeaway: A Make.com scenario watches a Google Sheet that the client populates with caption, image URL from Drive, and date. On the booked date it pulls the image and posts natively to Instagram (carousel or reel) plus Pinterest (rich pin). After 30 days the brand reached 100% posting consistency (vs ~60% before), +34% Instagram reach, and +1. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/auto-generate-a-searchable-help-video-library-for-an-app.html auto-generate-a-searchable-help-video-library-for-an-app Replit Agent Media & Content Linked example of auto-generate a searchable help video library for an app. The builder copied this exact prompt into a Replit agent: add ?demo=1 mode with seeded fake data and no DB writes; define each video in code as scenes specifying route, narration script, and scripted cursor movements; have Playwright record the app while TTS narrates; use ffmpeg to add captions and stitch scenes; output MP4 + transcript + ... Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/auto-fill-job-applications.html auto-fill-job-applications Custom agent Productivity Documented elsewhere: as described in the source: the process of editing a CV and cover letter for job applications is simplified by an agent who reviews the user's work. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/auto-buy-items-when-the-price-hits-a-target.html auto-buy-items-when-the-price-hits-a-target Alexa+ Shopping Community report: in the Amazon app or website, you tap the cursive A icon to open Alexa for Shopping. On a product page you tell it a target price, such as a percentage off. The article describes the features but doesn't report a hands-on test or savings figures. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/auto-apply-to-jobs-on-linkedin.html auto-apply-to-jobs-on-linkedin ChatGPT Agent Knowledge & Notes As described in the source, chatGPT Agent shows up in a write-up about auto-apply to jobs on LinkedIn, with figures like 40, 2. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/audit-hundreds-of-pull-requests.html audit-hundreds-of-pull-requests Meta Muse Productivity Case study takeaway: meta Muse covered audit hundreds of pull requests. as described in the source: muse Code conducted an independent test by auditing 222 pull requests in less than five minutes for approximately ten cents, as also developing a plan on a non-existent Google project. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/audit-credit-card-use-for-wrong-card-charges-and-missed-benefits.html audit-credit-card-use-for-wrong-card-charges-and-missed-benefits Grok Bot Shopping From the linked report, by powered by a Plaid-connected app, Grok Bot can read the transactions put together on three cards and verify their card selection for dining, Amazon, and travel, as well as their unused benefits. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/audit-and-rewrite-marketing-copy-to-strip-unverified-claims.html audit-and-rewrite-marketing-copy-to-strip-unverified-claims Custom agent Sales & Marketing A published walkthrough shows the builder made two agents on gpt-4o-mini with low temperature and fixed seeds. The evaluator scores copy against mode-specific rubrics (landing page, cold email, pitch deck) and caps Specificity at 7/10 when no verifiable metrics exist. The source is a launch post and reports no results or numbers from real use. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/audit-and-rebuild-a-store-x27-s-email-automations.html audit-and-rebuild-a-store-x27-s-email-automations Meta Muse Email & Inbox Observed in the wild: meta Muse shows up in a write-up about audit and rebuild a store's email automations. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/audit-and-fix-a-home-assistant-setup.html audit-and-fix-a-home-assistant-setup Claude Personal Assistant Real-world thread: the writer ran a local MCP proxy on a Mac, authenticated with a Long-Lived Access Token, and linked it to Claude Desktop. Because the Home Assistant MCP can't write config, Claude drove the Chrome connector to paste YAML into the editors, and used JavaScript injection when typing garbled the text. The audit located triplicate TV entities, ghost duplicates, unassigned lights, and a fan registered as a plain switch. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/audit-ad-accounts-across-six-platforms.html audit-ad-accounts-across-six-platforms Claude Code Productivity Claude Code covered audit ad accounts across six platforms. The Claude Ads skill is run via one command that launches six parallel subagents. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/audit-a-blog-x27-s-seo.html audit-a-blog-x27-s-seo Claude Code Sales & Marketing Case study takeaway: claude Code shows up in a write-up about audit a blog's SEO. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/attempt-to-build-a-navigation-app-did-not-finish.html attempt-to-build-a-navigation-app-did-not-finish Manus Productivity Linked example of attempt to build a navigation app (did not finish). A commenter described powered by Manus on their first day to build a navigation app with live maps, lane guidance, and voice directions. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/async-research-projects-with-coding-agents.html async-research-projects-with-coding-agents Claude Code Software Development Asynchronous coding agents are given open research questions, write and run experiments in a dedicated repo, and report findings. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/async-devin-chores-between-morning-and-lunch.html async-devin-chores-between-morning-and-lunch Devin Personal Assistant An HN commenter kicks off several Devin sessions at morning, lunch and night, then reviews PRs asynchronously instead of babysitting a terminal. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/assemble-an-immigration-document-package.html assemble-an-immigration-document-package ChatGPT Agent Finance Seven years of tax returns, bank PDFs, and immigration paperwork—pulled via ChatGPT browser sessions into a single packet in minutes. The post stops at “assembled,” not “filed.” Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/apply-to-jobs-automatically-and-schedule-calls.html apply-to-jobs-automatically-and-schedule-calls Meta Muse Productivity Documented elsewhere: muse was given instructions to handle job applications end to end. It updated resumes and cover letters then submitted automatic applications to over 60 positions on its own. Three companies responded and one advanced to interview rounds. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/apply-to-jobs.html apply-to-jobs Custom agent Knowledge & Notes A published walkthrough shows custom agent shows up in a write-up about apply to jobs. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/apply-to-50-jobs-in-under-30-minutes.html apply-to-50-jobs-in-under-30-minutes Claude computer use Media & Content According to the write-up, user enabled Claude computer use on their machine. The agent then handled job search and submission steps across sites to apply to positions. It submitted 50 applications inside 30 minutes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/apply-for-jobs-and-turn-notes-into-coding-prompts.html apply-for-jobs-and-turn-notes-into-coding-prompts Grok Bot Knowledge & Notes Case study takeaway: one commenter uses Grok Bot through the Cursor CLI: they link it to their developer docs, send it shorthand notes while away from their desk, and it rewrites those notes into a full prompt before having Cursor start coding. The same commenter says a separate small team of bots covers job hunting by searching for jobs and applying to them after being given their resume, a cover letter, and an FAQ sheet about them. The thread presents both as active personal automations, but gives no numbers on applications, interviews, hires, code output, or time saved. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/appeal-a-denied-travel-insurance-claim.html appeal-a-denied-travel-insurance-claim Gemini Travel & Booking Linked example of appeal a denied travel insurance claim. The poster uploaded the full travel-insurance policy PDF plus all claim correspondence to Gemini and asked whether the denial fit the policy terms. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/answer-tenant-and-rental-prospect-questions.html answer-tenant-and-rental-prospect-questions Custom agent Sales & Marketing Real-world thread: custom agent shows up in a write-up about answer tenant and rental prospect questions. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/answer-renter-questions-and-schedule-tours.html answer-renter-questions-and-schedule-tours Custom agent Productivity From the linked report, zillow Rentals embeds an EliseAI-powered agent called AI Assist in its listings. It replies to renter inquiries from the first message, schedules tours, and follows up after tours, around the clock. From October 2025 to April 2026, renters who engaged with AI Assist were 43% more likely to apply, 19% more likely to book a tour and 24% more likely to sign a lease. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/answer-real-estate-calls.html answer-real-estate-calls n8n Finance Case study takeaway: n8n shows up in a write-up about answer real estate calls, with figures like 8. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/answer-patient-enquiries-for-a-clinic-by-chat.html answer-patient-enquiries-for-a-clinic-by-chat n8n Automation From the linked report, patients send messages through a chat interface into an n8n workflow. Gemini agent with Simple Memory for context pulls clinic details from Google Sheets and produces replies to enquiries on its own. No results or metrics are described. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/answer-home-service-customer-calls-and-text-the-owner.html answer-home-service-customer-calls-and-text-the-owner Custom agent Productivity Documented elsewhere: the voice agent answers calls for home-service businesses. It records the caller's name and number, the request in the customer's own words, and a promised update time if the owner cannot respond immediately, then sends that summary via text. The post describes the flow closing the gap between unanswered calls and owner callbacks but gives no results or numbers. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/answer-dental-clinic-calls-and-manage-appointments.html answer-dental-clinic-calls-and-manage-appointments n8n Productivity One practitioner notes that the builder describes a six-part setup: an always-on voice agent covers booking, rescheduling, cancellations, slot checks, and routine questions, while urgent calls trigger a Telegram alert to the doctor. Calls are then analyzed with GPT-4 and logged into Supabase CRM, and bookings sync with Calcom; the automations run in self-hosted n8n with ElevenLabs/Vapi for voice. The stated outcome was fewer missed calls, a measurable drop in no-shows, and automatic reactivation of patients idle for 90+ days, but the post gives no hard metrics. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/answer-customer-questions-and-escalate-to-humans.html answer-customer-questions-and-escalate-to-humans Custom agent Knowledge & Notes Real-world thread: after a discovery call on the business, products, and customer flow, the developer assembled a 24/7 AI agent given access to product details, pricing, and payment info. The agent answered questions, handled follow-ups and repeated queries, walked customers through payments by supplying details, notified admins on receiving payment proof screenshots, and requested order details after confirmation. The source describes the system build and handoff flow but states no results, metrics, or shortfalls. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/answer-business-phone-calls.html answer-business-phone-calls Custom agent Email & Inbox From the linked report, custom agent shows up in a write-up about answer business phone calls. The linked post is the primary source for steps and outcomes. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/answer-whatsapp-customer-questions-and-escalate-to-humans.html answer-whatsapp-customer-questions-and-escalate-to-humans n8n Research & Data Case study takeaway: an n8n workflow takes each incoming WhatsApp message and assembles the conversation history plus the company knowledge base. OpenAI sketches a reply grounded in that content, and a confidence check decides whether it can be answered reliably. The README gives no measured results, only design goals: cover routine questions, give round-the-clock coverage, and keep a human on unreliable cases. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/answer-shopify-order-status-emails-and-fix-issues-overnight.html answer-shopify-order-status-emails-and-fix-issues-overnight Custom agent Productivity As described in the source, for a Shopify store the owner assembled an agent to read customer emails about orders. The agent pulls the real order details from the store and resolves the issues on its own while people sleep. It handled "where's my order?" queries before the owner woke up. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/analyze-your-chess-games-into-commented-videos.html analyze-your-chess-games-into-commented-videos Claude Code Media & Content Observed in the wild: the builder recorded themselves thinking aloud during a 15+10 rapid game, then gave Claude Code the Lichess link and the mp3. Claude transcribed it locally with whisper.cpp and matched sentences to moves powered by PGN clock times. It produced an annotated PGN, an HTML board and a 6:49 narrated video with subtitles for The builder's real game. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/analyze-competitor-ads-and-generate-on-brand-ad-creatives.html analyze-competitor-ads-and-generate-on-brand-ad-creatives Claude Design & Creative One practitioner notes that the Ad Agent was assembled on the Claude Agent SDK and given a prompt to find competitors, learn from their ads, generate on-brand creatives, and package a shareable report. It ran the full sequence on its own with no node-based workflows or extra setup. The agent completed the described workflow of competitor analysis, creative generation, and report packaging. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/analyze-budgets-and-research-investments-from-bank-data.html analyze-budgets-and-research-investments-from-bank-data ChatGPT Finance One practitioner notes that the poster says they use WisePenny to pipe transaction data from their bank accounts into ChatGPT without handing over bank logins or broad third-party permissions, then use Claude for the analysis work. In the thread they describe powered by Claude to build budgets from spending history, summarize and compare companies’ financial reports, and help research investments rather than directly controlling accounts. The source gives no hard performance numbers; it presents this as a practical read-and-analyze workflow. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/analyze-garmin-data-for-meal-planning-and-health-patterns.html analyze-garmin-data-for-meal-planning-and-health-patterns Claude Productivity Community report: one commenter said they keep separate meal-planner and health projects and manually enter data from a Hume band, body-composition scales, and their medication use. In back-and-forth conversations, Claude helped them spot that they consistently ate much more on one day of the week and linked it to reduced Mounjaro effect a set number of days after injection; the person then used that finding to update the meal planner. The result was meals for that day being redesigned so they could eat a lot more without side effects. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/analyze-170k-llm-logs-overnight.html analyze-170k-llm-logs-overnight Gemini Productivity Case study takeaway: user gave a Gemini agent access to the llm CLI and 170k LLM logs, told it to use a free Chutes model, and set a one-month time limit. The agent planned and ran the full analysis while people sleep on its own for hours powered by the CLI. It finished the job quickly but switched to Groq, respecting the limit while adding unexpected cost. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/analyze-10-ks-for-value-investing.html analyze-10-ks-for-value-investing Custom agent Productivity A published walkthrough shows the poster was testing an LLM investing assistant that read 10-Ks and tried to produce normalized earnings, ROIC, owner earnings, and a rough reverse DCF. In the thread, they say they first used EDGAR/XBRL Companyfacts, then easier APIs, but ran into custom tags, footnotes, and backtest leakage; commenters pushed a workflow that combines structured headline figures with retrieval over filing text, stores source passages and year-by-year claims outside the chat, and leaves the human to verify tricky comparability issues. The source reports no performance results, only problems and partial fixes: feeding whole filing histories hit context limits, chunking led to missed evidence and invented facts, and backtests looked unrealistically good because of restatements and filing lag. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/always-on-home-server-assistant.html always-on-home-server-assistant Claude DevOps & Infra A Claude-based agent running as a service on a mini PC delivers a morning briefing, watches email and tracks finances with long-term memory. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/agentic-codeowners-that-assign-reviewers.html agentic-codeowners-that-assign-reviewers Cursor Software Development An automation classifies PR risk, auto-approves low-risk changes, and assigns up to two reviewers for higher-risk work based on contribution history. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/add-travel-bookings-from-email-to-calendar.html add-travel-bookings-from-email-to-calendar Claude Code Email & Inbox Linked example of add travel bookings from email to calendar. The builder keeps a numbered Johnny.Decimal folder tree, with one folder holding saved scripts and documentation for adding travel bookings to their calendar. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/add-todo-items-to-todoist-from-telegram.html add-todo-items-to-todoist-from-telegram n8n Personal Assistant From the linked report, the commenter uses an orchestration platform, either n8n or windmill.dev, connected to a Telegram bot. An LLM covers the natural language side, so a message sent to the bot gets turned into a todo item and added to their Todoist account. The commenter says they do this themselves and that it covers the use case of adding home todos from elsewhere. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/add-home-todo-items-by-telegram-message.html add-home-todo-items-by-telegram-message OpenClaw Personal Assistant Observed in the wild: the builder ran OpenClaw and wrote a custom API that adds items to a TODO list kept only on their home PC, with no phone syncing. From the office they sent a Telegram message, and the agent called that API to add the item. It worked well enough that The builder misses it. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/add-handwritten-appointments-to-calendar-and-file-pdfs.html add-handwritten-appointments-to-calendar-and-file-pdfs Custom agent Personal Assistant Observed in the wild: the someone writing about it describes building a personal agent rather than relying on a chat subscription. It reads a photo of a handwritten appointment and adds it to a calendar, searches the web, and locates an email with a PDF and files it in a local paperless instance. The someone writing about it calls it easy to build and says flash models are more than enough for simple agent tasks. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/add-family-to-a-dental-plan-by-voice-from-the-car.html add-family-to-a-dental-plan-by-voice-from-the-car Custom agent Shopping Linked example of add family to a dental plan by voice from the car. Someone spoke instructions to their car while driving, which relayed them to the bot. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/add-61-kid-friendly-mini-games-to-an-app.html add-61-kid-friendly-mini-games-to-an-app Replit Agent Knowledge & Notes One practitioner notes that users pointed Replit Agent at their existing 40-game mini-games app and told it to reach 101 total games, with one rule only: no repeated games. The agent had full autonomy to choose, build, and integrate the rest. The vault reached 101 games. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://agentsightings.com/case/a-team-of-role-play-agents-running-a-side-project.html a-team-of-role-play-agents-running-a-side-project Claude Code Business & Startups Fourteen persona agents in a bash loop with Claude Code plan, build and ship artifacts, with a critic agent running pre-mortems on ideas. Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT