5 real things people did with Custom agent, with the source and a prompt to try it yourself.
Vet bills mean a paper chase of card charges, emailed invoices and insurer forms. A homemade agent matches each charge to its Gmail invoice, fills the claim form with Gemini's help and stages a draft. A person hits send.
Result Its own invoice-request emails once false-matched 12 claims
A Raspberry Pi rides in the car and runs a local AI model that answers spoken questions through the car's own speakers, even with the internet switched off. It also posts engine faults into the household chat room.
Result Dashboard command closed a real open car window
Gmail, calendar, maps, contacts, alarms: their homemade agent controls them all, and even taps through Telegram for them using the phone's accessibility service. All data stays on the phone.
Result All data stays on their phone
Too much news, too little time. They built an agent that sends a daily summary so nothing important slips past, and that digest is what pointed them to the thread where they shared it.
Result It found them the thread they posted in
Invoices, contractor payments in cash or Bitcoin, bookkeeping, 1099s. Sheila drafts and prepares it all; the founder watches and approves before anything goes out. Hundreds of iterations made it reliable.
Result Reliable after hundreds of iterations