All ideasMore in Family
Family

Find and request chess books for my 6-year-old at the library

Eleanor Konik writes that she hates requesting books through the county library website, so she told the AI to find books about chess aimed at a bright 6-year-old; the AI picked titles and requested them using her library account. A few days later the county emailed that the books were available, and she picked them up (her post also shares an AI invite code).

How it works

  1. Tell the AI to find chess books aimed at a bright 6-year-old
  2. The AI selects titles
  3. The AI requests them through the county library website using her saved library card
  4. The county emails days later that the books are available
  5. She collects them

Why it’s worth knowing

It completed a real request on a clunky government library site, days before the books landed.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on eleanorkonik.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

FamilyCompare festival rentals, and flag which walk home is unlitFamilyTurn a classroom review game into a personal study game for my sonFamilyThe AI Agents Traded Real Books for 201 Anthropic Staff in Project SwapFamilyLock in two orchestra seats for $117 and negotiate my brother's game tickets$117

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.