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See which everyday web errands an AI agent can actually finish

Agentability is a weekly public experiment where a real AI agent attempts ten everyday web errands and every transcript is published verbatim.

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Source

khalidsaidi on Hacker News · 2026-10-06 · Project link

Written in our own words. Credit to the original author. Link checked 2026-10-23.

What they did

Agentability is a weekly public experiment where a real AI agent attempts ten everyday web errands and every transcript is published verbatim.

Result (as claimed)

In the week shown it finished 7 of 10 errands and hit 20 bot walls; 1,219 popular sites are also scored.

Tools they used

Agentability

Cost: Pricing depends on the tools you pick; check each official pricing page.

Set it up

  1. Gather your sources

    Collect the papers, notes, links or files you want to work from in one place.

  2. Load them into the tool

    Open Agentability and add your sources. Keep the original files so you can check claims later.

  3. Ask focused questions

    Ask for summaries, comparisons or connections with citations to the source passages.

  4. Verify and save

    Spot check claims against the sources, then save the output as notes you can reuse.

Copy the full setup prompt

Paste into your agent and it will walk you through the setup, asking before anything that sends, posts or spends.

You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Claude Code.

Goal: See which everyday web errands an AI agent can actually finish
What the original author did: Agentability is a weekly public experiment where a real AI agent attempts ten everyday web errands and every transcript is published verbatim.
Reported result (as claimed by the author): In the week shown it finished 7 of 10 errands and hit 20 bot walls; 1,219 popular sites are also scored.
Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49984736
Tools they used: Agentability
Category: Research & learning

Please:
1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like).
2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure.
3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data.
4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.

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