The Daily Catch: Tuesday, October 20
Five things people are getting AI agents to do, scored and ready to copy.
Ask a hard question and get a cited research report
Blaze Score 65 with Claude, Perplexity
A research agent splits your question into sub-questions, checks several sources for each, and returns a report that marks what is confirmed and what is not.
Research question: {{question}}
Decision this supports: {{decision}}
Time frame: focus on the last {{months}} months unless history matters.
1. Break the question into 4 to 8 sub-questions.
2. For each, find at least 2 independent sources. Prefer primary sources (company pages, filings, government data, studies) over blogs.
3. Mark every key claim CONFIRMED (2+ sources), SINGLE-SOURCE or UNVERIFIED.
4. Note where so…
Find and cancel subscriptions you forgot you pay for
Blaze Score 65 with Claude
An agent scans a few months of bank or card statements, lists every recurring charge, flags the ones you probably do not use, and drafts the cancellation messages.
Here are 3 months of my transactions (account numbers removed). Find every recurring charge. Return a table: merchant, amount, how often, first seen, last seen, total over 3 months, what it probably is. Then list the ones I may not be using (charges I might have forgotten, duplicates, free trials that turned into paid plans) and say why. For each one I mark CANCEL, write a short, polite cancellation and refund reque…
Turn a week of dinners into a priced grocery list in Google Sheets with ChatGPT agent
Blaze Score 64 with ChatGPT
Tom's Guide's Amanda Caswell asked ChatGPT agent to plan five dinners, build a categorized grocery list with price checks, flag nearby sales and export it to Google Sheets. She rated it 10 out of 10, though other tasks in the same test, like ordering lunch, needed more hand-holding.
Plan five weeknight dinners for [number] people, [dietary needs], each under 45 minutes. Build one combined grocery list grouped by store section, check current prices at [store] near [zip code], and flag anything on sale this week. Export the list to a new Google Sheet with columns for item, quantity, section, price and recipe.
Cancel three streaming subscriptions by letting ChatGPT agent click through each site
Blaze Score 64 with ChatGPT
Tom's Guide AI editor Amanda Caswell had ChatGPT agent log into Peacock, Disney+ and Netflix and work through each cancellation flow, and all three were cancelled. She needed to nudge it in a few spots and warns some sites may block or flag the agent.
Use agent mode to cancel my subscriptions to [Service A], [Service B] and [Service C]. For each one, open the account or billing settings page, find the cancel option and walk through it. Pause and hand control to me whenever a login, password or payment screen appears, and ask me before clicking the final confirm button. Decline any retention offers unless I say otherwise. When finished, give me a short table of eac…
Book movie seats and send date-night calendar invites with ChatGPT agent
Blaze Score 64 with ChatGPT
TechRadar's Eric Hal Schwartz had ChatGPT agent pick seats at a theater, create calendar events for the date and babysitting drop-off, send invites and make an invitation slide deck in under ten minutes. It first chose the wrong theater and paused at payment for him to finish.
Plan a movie night for [date]. Go to [theater name and city] and find the [time] showing of [film]. Pick two seats together near the middle and stop at payment so I can pay. Then create a calendar event for the movie and a separate one at [time] for dropping the kids with [babysitter], and send invites to [emails]. Ask me before you buy anything or send any invite.
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