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Keep my recipe library, plan 15 family meals a week, and hand off the Instacart list

After years of spreadsheets and a vibe-coded app, a parent built an AI system (reported on X, via WhatAgentsCanDo, Oct 7) that maintains the family recipe library in Markdown, prints a weekly plan of about 15 meals, and produces a section-grouped shopping list. The list is pasted into AI to fill Instacart, with checkout still human; the bot template is shared for reuse.

How it works

  1. Bot maintains the family recipe library in Markdown
  2. Each week builds a plan of about 15 meals
  3. Prints a simple plan sheet
  4. Generates a shopping list grouped by store section
  5. User pastes the list into AI to fill Instacart
  6. Human completes checkout; bot template shared for reuse

Why it’s worth knowing

It is a standing two-agent system — an AI librarian-planner handing off to the AI at the store — not a one-off meal plan, and the template is shared.

Where it’s from

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

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