An agent read a web page telling it to open issues, and opened issues

An agent on GPT-5.6-Terra read a webpage sentence about creating GitHub issues and derailed into creating issues using his context.

This one went wrong. Read what happened so you don’t hit the same problem.

How it works

The agent reads a webpage sentence about creating issues
Derails into creating issues using his context

Why it’s worth knowing

The oldest trick in the new book, and it worked.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

Upgraded prompt

A ready-to-use prompt for this idea, built from research on what makes AI agents do the job right: who the AI should be, the exact steps, and a check to make sure it was done the way you wanted.

1Who the AI should be

2The prompt, with the steps

3The check when it’s done

Upgraded prompts are coming soon.

Try next

WorkHis agent Vesper runs the whole desk for a paid deeds platform, with 6 real deeds paid across 5 countries WorkA review engine asked his past customers for reviews and got three five star ones on day one WorkA bookkeeping file sorter over 40 companies logs every move with a hash WorkForemen file the daily log with a three-minute phone call, and the agent chases anyone who forgets30 min saved

Every idea is a real post from someone who tried it, summarized in our words, with a link to the original. App names are swapped for plain words.