Reminders and follow-up
Being nudged about something you would otherwise forget. Below are 6 recorded examples of people doing exactly this with a messaging agent, with what each one shows and where it came from.
6 examples
Shopify's head of engineering published the standing jobs he has given three agents. Instinct holds five: research winter tyres for his Tesla and reach out for quotes until they are bought; buy Costco gift cards and load them into his Uber wallet; tell him when University of Waterloo merchandise is back on the OVO store; submit health-care expenses automatically from the invoices that arrive by email; and watch for new articles from two writers. He moved to Instinct from Grok Bot.
Why it is notable
Standing jobs with a purchase at the end of them, which is the row this listing carries as acts-first: the tyre job runs until the tyres are bought, and the gift-card job spends and loads without a prompt. The health-expense claim is a form filed from an email on a schedule, which is the unclaimed-property shape turned into a routine. The agents he moved from and to are named.
Posted by a user by Farhan Thawar (@fnthawar): x.com, 2026-09-20. Added 2026-09-20.
Shopify's head of engineering published the standing jobs he has given three agents. Muse's is one: a daily read of every parent WhatsApp group for his children's schools plus all the email, sent to him as a summary and forwarded to his wife.
Why it is notable
The job only the product inside WhatsApp can do from the inside: the parent groups are the reason a lot of people cannot leave WhatsApp, and this reads them so a person does not have to. He splits his jobs across three agents by what each can reach; the other two lists are on their listings. His employer is a launch partner of Muse's, which the post does not mention and the note does.
Posted by a user by Farhan Thawar (@fnthawar): x.com, 2026-09-20. Added 2026-09-20.
Shopify's head of engineering published the standing jobs he has given three agents. OpenClaw, on his own hardware, holds six: a monthly search for new treatments for his 14-year-old's peanut and sesame allergy; the hot tub's temperature and jets, with a flag if the temperature drifts more than two degrees; a daily schedule for the Sonos and the pool lights; a check of whether new local open-source coding models are worth testing against his DeepSeek and Qwen setup; booking a date night each month; and flight tracking.
Why it is notable
The first sighting here of an agent controlling things in a house, the hot tub and the lights, and the split is the point: the jobs that touch his own hardware and his own models go to the agent that runs on it, and the jobs that need his accounts go elsewhere. The allergy search is the most personal standing job on this site, a monthly question with a child's name behind it.
Posted by a user by Farhan Thawar (@fnthawar): x.com, 2026-09-20. Added 2026-09-20.
A founder says Muse's feed gives him a daily report of his X timeline, his feature deployment status, his meetings and the news, with everything he uses connected to it, and that he does not know why nobody else has built it.
Why it is notable
The first sighting of the feed as the thing somebody values rather than a task done: one daily brief across four sources, two of them personal and two public. It is a standing watch, the shape several listings sell as the morning brief, here from the product that also does the errands.
Posted by a user by Alex Klarfeld (@AlexKlarfeld): x.com, 2026-09-18. Added 2026-09-19.
- InstinctiMessage
A user set Instinct to check her children's school portal twice a week for missing assignments and report back, and called it the killer use case. A parent's portal is a login, a page that changes, and a question nobody wants to remember to ask; the agent asks it on a schedule.
Why it is notable
It is the plainest example here of what a scheduled check is for: not a reminder to do something, but a thing done and a report of what changed. It also needs the school portal's login, which on this listing is a password handed to the agent, the arrangement its policy describes and most of this directory does not allow.
Posted by a user by Deirdre Bosa (@dee_bosa): x.com, 2026-09-12. Added 2026-09-12.
- TomoiMessage
Tomo does coaching and accountability over text. When a companion app began carrying the conversation instead, users objected.
Why it is notable
It suggests the channel was part of what people were paying for, not merely how the product was delivered. An agent that lives in the thread with your friends is a different thing from the same model behind an app icon, and this is one of the few cases where users said so out loud.
Our research. Added 2026-09-06.