Run browser agents for small admin tasks
An educator tried agentic browsers that made a meeting poll, looked up and summarized colleagues' teaching schedules, and reformatted a slide deck, though clunky and slow.
Done withPerplexity CometClaude Cowork
- What they did
- Anna Mills tried agentic browsers (Perplexity Comet, ChatGPT Atlas, Claude in Chrome, Claude Cowork) on small admin tasks. In these tools a chat window sits beside the page, and the AI can see the page, click and fill forms with the user's permission. They made a meeting poll, looked up and summarized colleagues' teaching schedules, and reformatted a slide deck for consistency. They also researched and summarized linked sources.
- How it went
- She found the tools clunky, slow and untrustworthy, but still useful for these tasks. The source gives no timings or success rates.
- Worth knowing
- Agentic browsers can follow hidden malicious instructions on sites and share visited page content with the AI company, so check your institution's guidance before using them on student or internal data.
Try it yourself with Perplexity Comet
Help me with a few small admin tasks in my browser: [e.g. create a meeting poll for [dates/times] and show me the link, and look up [information on a page I'm logged into] and summarize it]. Do them one at a time and show me the result of each. Pause and show me before sending any invites or messages, or submitting any forms.
Source: annamills.substack.com · Undated
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