What people do with ChatGPT Agent

• Fill a supermarket cart with agent mode for pickup

  Agent mode added groceries to the cart at a local supermarket while the poster worked, for pickup the next morning.

  3 accounts

• Buy homemade pizza ingredients from Walmart

  A reviewer had ChatGPT Agent shop at Walmart for pizza ingredients, handing control back briefly for an anti-bot check.

  2 accounts

• Find and buy a same-day-delivery fern as a gift

  In Agent mode the author had ChatGPT search local plant shops and fill the checkout form, stopping for him to click buy, then reported the order with tracking.

  2 accounts

• Test OpenAI's Agent on online shopping

  The agent got partway through buying dress shoes before the poster had to enter the card, then hit Amazon bot protection and could not reliably shop, book or reserve.

• Watch item prices and email on drops

  A commenter set up a ChatGPT price watch on items they want and gets an email only when the price drops.

• Buy items on Amazon from a photo

  Author used ChatGPT Agent to reorder an item from a photo of its wrapper, handling the whole Amazon purchase until Amazon blocked agents.

• Plan meals, build grocery list and order food

  ChatGPT Agent made recipes, a categorized grocery list with local prices and a Sheets export, and placed a DoorDash order but handed off for payment.

• Hunt Black Friday TV deals against stated requirements

  ChatGPT Agent searched deal guides and retailers for several minutes and returned five discounted TVs with buy links plus two cheaper alternatives.

• Turn a handwritten grocery list into a cart

  ChatGPT Agent transcribed 15 of 16 items from a photo, found the nearest store and added them to the cart, but missed onions and struggled with login.

• Find a vintage lamp on Etsy

  ChatGPT Agent worked 50 minutes and reported adding five lamps to the cart, but the user's own cart was empty as it ran on a separate computer.

All Shopping & Errands use cases, from every agent

• Book an airport hotel with ChatGPT Agent

  Author had ChatGPT Agent pick and book a Gatwick hotel on Booking.com; it reached the card confirmation screen, then needed the author to take over.

  4 accounts

• Find and book a business lunch restaurant

  NN/G tester had ChatGPT's agent find and book Brennan's in Houston; it took about 11 minutes and needed human help with details and guest count.

  3 accounts

• Rebook after a flight cancellation

  ChatGPT Work mode found replacement flights, arranged a rental car, and consolidated the new travel arrangements after a cancellation.

• Plan a group weekend trip and make reservations

  ChatGPT work mode planned a long weekend for 9 friends, built a coordination site, reached group agreement, made reservations, and drafted a Gmail email.

• Find cheapest nonstop flights on Google Flights with constraints

  ChatGPT Agent searched Google Flights for the cheapest nonstop flights this year, 4 to 10 day trips, excluding Boeing 737 MAX, and succeeded.

• Plan a family trip and pre-fill bookings

  A reporter had ChatGPT Agent plan a 4-day San Diego trip: it searched flights, compared hotels, built an itinerary and pre-filled booking forms, stopping before purchase.

• Book restaurant tables via OpenTable and Resy

  In a hands-on test, Claude showed Resy availability but could not book, and ChatGPT's agent clicked through OpenTable but set the wrong party size.

• Search for cheap round-trip flights from JFK

  ChatGPT agent returned a table of dates and prices per destination that matched on checking, but gave no booking links so the reporter had to search manually.

• Plan and book a movie date night

  ChatGPT Agent picked seats on a theater site, paused for payment details, bought tickets after confirmation, and created a calendar event.

All Travel & Bookings use cases, from every agent

• Research and benchmark competitors into a deck and spreadsheet

  ChatGPT Agent mode researched the top 5 UK coffee subscription companies, benchmarked their USPs, and produced a deck and spreadsheet from one prompt in 18 minutes.

  2 accounts

• Research and draft a social science paper with Deep Research

  Author used ChatGPT Deep Research and Agent Mode for research help and writing assistance while writing an academic social science paper.

• Research laptops and build a comparison table and deck

  The reviewer had ChatGPT Agent research budget laptops over about 30 minutes; research was decent but the deck looked cheap. It also built a multi-tab Excel file.

• Compile an annotated bibliography and draft a paper

  ChatGPT Agent searched academic databases for recent open-access empirical papers, grouped them by field, wrote an annotated bibliography, noted research gaps and assembled a draft.

• Collate WHO data into a multi-tab spreadsheet

  Testers had ChatGPT Agent navigate the WHO site, extract the latest data and organise it by indicator, country and trend; it often fails on logins or dynamic pages.

• Compile genealogy research into a spreadsheet and plan

  A commenter had ChatGPT build a spreadsheet for her genealogy research, and agent mode was recommended for compiling and formatting findings into a usable document.

• Research AI training case studies and build a summary deck

  A team had Agent Mode research case studies from McKinsey, PwC and similar firms and make a slide deck in 32 minutes, with some image and overlapping text issues.

All Research & Knowledge use cases, from every agent

• Curate a Mubi watchlist from stated criteria

  ChatGPT Agent browsed the Mubi library, picked 10 films matching the user's criteria, gave quick verdicts and added them to the watchlist.

  2 accounts

• Assemble an immigration document package

  A user had ChatGPT browser use gather seven years of taxes, bank statements and immigration documents into a package in minutes.

• Fill out a prescription order form on a clinic site

  ChatGPT Agent filled in medication, dosage and number of days on a clinic's website, while the user entered sensitive data manually.

• Find a stylist and prep a salon appointment

  A CNET reporter had ChatGPT's agent research stylists and request booking details, but stopped it before it booked.

• Plan Saturday errands and book haircuts

  ChatGPT Agent planned errands, found salons with online booking and worked on booking kids' haircuts, with some steps needing human confirmation.

All Life Admin & Home use cases, from every agent

• Cancel streaming subscriptions with ChatGPT Agent

  A writer had the agent cancel Peacock, Disney and Netflix after logging in; it needed a nudge and may be blocked on some sites.

  4 accounts

• Trade stocks via Robinhood MCP

  A ChatGPT agent sold TSM shares and bought HOOD shares as part of an ongoing agentic trading challenge.

  2 accounts

• Track subscriptions and renewals from Gmail

  The writer used ChatGPT Agent to search Gmail for renewal emails, extract service, date and cost into a list, and ask before unsubscribing; it also found cheap gas nearby.

• Negotiate bills by emailing providers to match competitors

  A ChatGPT workflow finds bills in statements, looks up competitor prices, emails providers via Gmail asking them to match, and summarizes outcomes, with user review before sending.

All Money, Bills & Benefits use cases, from every agent

• Dots

  Run ten business tasks through an always-on agent

  A reviewer tested Dots on product research, publishing a webpage, content planning and scheduled jobs; inbox triage and follow-ups needed supervision and a spreadsheet had broken formulas.

• Source recruiting candidates on LinkedIn and build valuation models

  ChatGPT Agent logged into LinkedIn, filtered YouTube manager candidates in Bangalore into a spreadsheet, and in another demo built an Excel valuation model from company financials in 17 minutes.

• Run portfolio, attribution and real estate analyses with Agent Mode

  A reviewer ran ChatGPT Agent Mode through five business tests, including equity portfolio analysis, marketing attribution and real estate scenarios, noting where it needed babysitting.

• Dots

  Run shopping, trip planning and project tracking with a dot

  A reviewer's dot flagged a failed payment unprompted but only read and reported it; a shopping site blocked it and follow-through was unfinished.

All Work & Operations use cases, from every agent

• Play online math games in agent mode

  The author had GPT-5 in ChatGPT agent mode play online versions of Math Games with Bad Drawings, and it mostly worked, unlike earlier rental car and tax form attempts.

• Play Pokémon Silver on an emulator via Computer Use

  A user had ChatGPT with Computer Use control a Pokémon Silver emulator, picking a starter and starting a playthrough, though usage limits were consumed by setup and repetitive dialogue.

• Cursor

  Build a minigame collection in a day

  A data professional drafted a prompt with ChatGPT and used Cursor agent mode to build a Python tkinter game with four minigames.

All Games & Simulations use cases, from every agent

• Zapier Agents

  Answer sales reps' questions with a Slackbot agent

  A RevOps practitioner built a Zapier Agent Slackbot to answer reps' questions; it took an afternoon to work and he concluded agents are imperfect.

• Run marketing tasks like getting past gated lead forms

  An SE Ranking marketer tested ChatGPT Agent on marketing tasks including a gated HubSpot report; it fully succeeded in only two of five runs.

• Create a presentation on AI career and salary trends

  A tester had ChatGPT Agent build a generative AI careers deck; the result was basic with hard-to-read tables, and the Canva connector was read-only so it couldn't improve it.

• Build a benchmark image collage in Canva

  The author had ChatGPT Agent log into Canva and build a collage of benchmark results; after over 75 minutes the result was poor as it fumbled the interface and drew shapes in Python.