Use cases
Things people report doing with agents. Curated feed excerpts link to their sources. Outcomes are not independently verified; categories are Oriel navigation labels.
Move Twitter follows over to Bluesky
Unspecified · Everyday life · Via Agent Use Cases · Reported use case
The author's agent goes through the accounts they follow on Twitter, matches them to Bluesky profiles, and follows them there.
Run daily business operations on a dedicated agent machine
Unspecified · Work · Via Agent Use Cases · Reported use case
A business owner runs an AI agent on a dedicated machine that handles email triage, summarization, social media monitoring, scheduling, file management and drafting responses.
Build code with agents while keeping a working understanding
Unspecified · Development · Via Agent Use Cases · Reported use case
A developer describes a workflow where the agent interviews them on ambiguities, makes the minor decisions, generates explainers and quizzes, and runs verifiers in the coding loop.
Find errors in production agent traces
Unspecified · Everyday life · Via Agent Use Cases · Reported use case
Laminar's flow-1 model reads agent traces to catch implicit failures like wrong clicks or wrong citations, so every production trace can be analyzed without sampling.
Research hedge fund portfolios from 13F filings
Unspecified · Research · Via Agent Use Cases · Reported use case
An open-source financial research agent with live data access works with 13F filings to analyze institutional portfolio disclosures.
Review contracts and check consumer-protection rules with legal AI agents
Unspecified · Everyday life · Via Agent Use Cases · Reported use case
An in-house lawyer uses legal AI tools to catch inconsistencies and edge-case risks, plus custom agents built around consumer-protection regulations.
Reorder low stock from suppliers automatically
Unspecified · Everyday life · Via Agent Use Cases · Reported use case
A system checks Shopify inventory each morning and emails a pre-written order to the right supplier when stock is low.
Run a company Reddit presence with a bot
Unspecified · Everyday life · Via Agent Use Cases · Reported use case
The poster built a Reddit agent to handle posting, engagement and neutral promotion of their platform instead of hiring a social media manager, though they still post themselves for now.
Enrich leads with an agent before sales outreach
Unspecified · Work · Via Agent Use Cases · Reported use case
The poster describes a lead enrichment agent used before outreach so sales reps know more about prospects, drawn from implementing 100+ sales agents.
Run a side hustle with three agents for content, email and books
Unspecified · Creative · Via Agent Use Cases · Reported use case
A working parent uses three agents: one researches and drafts content, one handles client emails and books calls, one categorizes Etsy income and expenses and writes monthly summaries.
Add groceries, buy on Amazon, and price-shop flights
Unspecified · Everyday life · Via Agent Use Cases · Reported use case
A commenter and their wife regularly use an AI agent to add items to Walmart grocery delivery orders, buy from Amazon, and compare flight prices.
Reprice booked flights when prices drop
Unspecified · Everyday life · Via Agent Use Cases · Reported use case
An AI agent monitors flight prices after booking and processes refunds when fares fall; the poster says it repriced their ticket multiple times.
Book a Munich to London flight (didn't finish)
Unspecified · Everyday life · Via Agent Use Cases · Reported use case
The user asked an AI agent to book a flight from Munich to London; it searched the airline site but couldn't complete the booking.
Deploy agent-built static pages to your own Cloudflare domain
Unspecified · Development · Via Agent Use Cases · Reported use case
The author built getonup so an agent can set up Cloudflare Workers and Zero Trust on their domain, letting a team publish static HTML pages with a dated index.
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