Browser agents can use websites the way a person does: clicking, scrolling, typing and filling in forms. That opens up all the tasks that have no neat app integration, from booking appointments to downloading statements.
This guide gathers real examples of agents working directly in a web browser, across shopping, travel, admin and research. Each case links to the public post it came from.
Browser agents can be slower and more fragile than direct integrations, and they can get stuck on logins and captchas. People who use them well give clear instructions, watch the first few runs, and keep sensitive steps like payments under their own control.
Browse the cases below for tasks worth trying, open one and adapt its prompt. The list is ordered by interest.
What is in this guide: 60 sourced cases, added between 2026-10-15 and 2026-10-15. The tools that come up most often are Custom agent (10), Claude (7), ChatGPT Agent (7), and the cases mostly sit under Travel & Booking (16), Shopping (11), Productivity (8). They were reported on Blog (24), X (17), Reddit (15). If you only have a few minutes, start with the top three: “Negotiate a car purchase between dealers”; “Fill out insurance paperwork from hospital records”; “Watch weekly deals and buy regular items”.
Each case page gives a short summary in our own words, a note on why it matters, a reusable prompt broken into steps you can follow, and a link to the original first-hand account. Nothing here is a paid placement, and we only list cases with a working public source.
60 real cases, most interesting first
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
Fill in a tax organizer and review last year'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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…