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Your first agent ​

Roughly five minutes, and nothing runs on a schedule until you say so.

1. Pick a shape ​

Go to Agents and choose New agent. The first question is what it should do, and the answer is one of six shapes. For a first agent, Competitor watch is the easiest one to judge, because you already know what the right answer looks like.

Each shape tells you what it does and, just as importantly, what it will not do. Competitor watch is read-only: it publishes nothing and sends nothing.

2. Say what it should work on ​

One field, in your own words. Be specific about sources:

The pricing pages of example.com and example.org

Vague subjects produce vague notes. "Our competitors" gives an agent nothing to start from; naming three pages gives it exactly the right amount.

3. Read the cost before you agree ​

Before you create anything you see two numbers:

Costs at most $5.00 each time it runs, and stops itself at $22.50 a month.

The per-run figure is what a single run can cost at worst. The monthly figure is the one that is enforced: at that point the agent stops and tells you, rather than carrying on. Both are shown because either one alone is misleading. See Limits and costs.

4. Create it, switched off ​

The button says Create, switched off, and that is exactly what happens. Nothing is scheduled. Nothing has run. Nothing has been spent.

5. Run it once ​

On the agent, choose Run once. This is the step that matters, because it is where you find out whether the thing is any good before it has cost you a month of runs.

If you press it twice, the second press joins the run already in progress rather than starting a second one. You cannot accidentally pay twice.

6. Read what it actually did ​

When the run finishes you get a plain account of it:

Asked: Check the following sources and report what has changed since the previous run, quoting the specific figures or wording that moved: the pricing pages of example.com and example.org

Read

  • example.com/pricing
  • example.org/plans
  • Its own note from the previous run

Wrote

  • Pricing changes, week of 8 September

Cost: $1.83

Every line in that account comes from a recorded action, never from the agent's own summary of itself. An agent that claims to have checked twelve sources and checked none is worse than no agent, so its own account of its work is not a source. See Testing an agent.

7. Then decide ​

If the note is useful, switch Schedule on and it runs weekly from then on.

If the note is not useful, the fix is almost always the subject line. Name the exact pages. Say what kind of change you care about. Then run it once more.

If the note was held for review rather than delivered, that means the agent could not point to a source for something it wanted to say. Read Approvals and veto.

Doing the same from an AI assistant ​

If you have connected an assistant over MCP, you can do all of this by asking:

"Set up something that keeps an eye on what example.com and example.org charge."

It picks the shape, fills in the subject, and tells you what it will cost. It is created switched off there too, and you still turn it on yourself.

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