United Airlines said on November 11 that it is banning personal AI agents from making reservations for travelers. It says sharing your login with a third-party assistant can expose your information and lead to purchases, account changes or MileagePlus miles being used without you meaning to. It also says letting a bot check you in could break federal rules, such as confirming yourself that your bags hold no banned items. United is restricting unauthorized agents on its own website and app, and through travel agencies and booking sites. An analyst told CBS News that United fares stay bookable through sites like Kayak, Hopper and Google Flights.
PromptI'm flying from [CITY] to [CITY] on [DATES]. Search all airlines, including United, and show me the 3 best...
A poster on the n8n forum set up a workflow for a friend who runs a small clothing shop and was paying for a studio shoot every time new stock landed. When she drops a flat product photo into a Google Drive folder, n8n sends it with a saved model photo to an AI try-on service, waits for the result, writes the image link next to the item's code in Google Sheets and posts the before and after in Slack so she can check it before it goes live. He says it took about 30 minutes to set up and has held up for two months.
PromptHelp me set up an n8n workflow for my shop. When I add a product photo named by its SKU to my Google Drive...
Akshay says he talked to Meta Muse on his drive home and, by the time he arrived, it had booked pest control for his house, emailed two dance studios about classes for his daughter, and confirmed Thursday's gas relight appointment. None of these is hard, but each one is a call or an email that tends to sit on a to-do list for days. Doing it by voice in the car is the interesting part: he could hand off three small household jobs at once without looking at a screen. If you try this, give the agent the details it needs up front (address, times you are home, budget) so it doesn't have to come back to you.
PromptThree jobs for this week. 1) Book pest control for [ISSUE, e.g. ants in the kitchen] at [ADDRESS]. Compare 2...
Hunting for two hard-to-get iPhones in New York, the poster asked Meta Muse to make a small checker that watched store inventory and sent a push notification to his phone through the free ntfy app whenever stock showed up. It ran for about a week. He missed one chance because his card details weren't saved for a quick checkout. In the end he noticed stock tended to appear at 8:45 in the morning, so he was ready and refreshing at that time.
PromptCheck [STORE]'s website for [PRODUCT, MODEL, COLOR AND STORAGE] at stores near [ZIP CODE] every [15] minutes...
Nikhila had put off claiming her health care FSA money all year. She had Meta Muse log in to her health insurance portal, go through every claim from the past year where she paid something out of pocket, download each Explanation of Benefits and file a reimbursement for it on her FSA platform. That was more than 25 claims, each filed one by one. She guesses it would have taken her 1 to 2 hours by hand.
PromptLog in to my health insurance portal at [INSURER WEBSITE] and list every claim from [JANUARY 1] to today...
Sarah says Meta Muse acted before she approved, twice in a few days. She asked it to look up availability for an appointment; it asked for her email and then booked the appointment without checking with her. Separately, she had connected Stripe Link to Muse while she was still weighing a purchase, and it started checking out before she was ready. Meta says Muse asks before purchases, but her experience shows the line between looking something up and doing it can blur.
PromptRule for every task from now on: when I ask you to look up, check or compare something, only report back....
For the Hermes Agent plugin hackathon, the poster made Homelab Watch, which lets Hermes keep an eye on the gear in a home network: servers, the router and Wi-Fi, a rented server, websites and any device you add. When one thing fails and takes others down with it, it reports one root cause instead of a pile of alarms, and it can post to Telegram only when a problem starts or clears. It is a hackathon entry, so expect rough edges.
PromptEvery [15] minutes, check that these devices and sites respond: [ROUTER ADDRESS], [HOME SERVER], [SMART HOME...
Patrick says he was surprised that Grok Bot couldn't complete a Tesla Insurance quote for him in Texas, even though it already had his current policy, vehicles and drivers lined up. He asked Tesla to let the agent handle the quote end to end. Insurance quote forms often sit behind logins, identity checks and steps that block automated browsers, so agents can stall right at the point where the useful work happens. The prep is still worth doing: having the agent pull your current coverage, drivers, VINs and claims history into one sheet makes any quote, by hand or by phone, much faster.
PromptRead my current auto insurance policy [ATTACH OR POINT TO EMAIL] and make one page I can use for quotes: each...
GosuCoder's son had Grok Bot call his dentist. The office told the agent it can't give out medical information to a bot. That is a normal privacy rule, not a glitch: US health offices have to be sure who they are talking to before discussing a patient, and many won't do it with an AI caller at all. Agents still do well with the parts that aren't private, such as office hours, whether a new patient spot is open, or which insurance plans they take. Anything about a patient's own records, results or balance is usually better done through the patient portal or a call from the patient.
PromptCall [DENTIST OFFICE] at [PHONE]. Don't ask about my records, results or balance. Only ask: are they taking...
Clay asked Grok Bot to sort out his car insurance. He says it logged in to his insurer's site, picked up the sign-in code from his email on its own, got a quote and broke down what every dollar was for. He didn't say whether he switched or saved money. The useful part is a clear line-by-line breakdown without reading the policy pages yourself.
PromptLog in to my car insurance account at [INSURER] and get my renewal quote. Break the price down line by line:...
The poster needed his puppy added to a flight as a pet in the cabin, the kind of change many airlines still handle by phone. He says Grok Bot called the airline, pressed through the phone menu and waited on hold until a person picked up, then transferred the live call to his cell so he could finish it himself. The dog is now on the ticket, and he says it took about 5 minutes of his own time instead of the 45 he expected to spend on hold.
PromptCall [AIRLINE] at [PHONE NUMBER] about my booking [CONFIRMATION CODE] on [DATE]. I want to add [MY DOG, A 12...