ChatGPT agent examples: 66 real use cases with prompts

Complete a 31-step web form: ChatGPT agent vs Perplexity Comet

On a 31-step form with buttons, dropdowns and fields, Comet failed after 3–5 steps, while ChatGPT agent completed all 31 and corrected its own mistakes by checking against the steps.

Pay a UK car tax reminder with ChatGPT agent (handoff for payment)

From a photo of the posted reminder and a chosen payment option, ChatGPT agent found the government website and filled out the forms; the poster took over to enter card details.

Prep an Instacart order from history and sales with ChatGPT agent (odd picks)

Given access to Instacart and told to prep an order from the poster's history and current sales, ChatGPT agent picked items with reasoning the poster found oddly generic ("cereal, which is on sale and a usual part of groceries").

Track down a hard-to-find toy and reach checkout with ChatGPT agent

Testing ChatGPT agent for a week, a Tom's Guide writer asked it to find the hard-to-get Big Into Energy Labubu nearby and chose 'purchase' when it asked. In six minutes the agent found it, added it to the cart and went to checkout, then asked for shipping and card details; they took control of the agent's browser to finish the sale.

Plan a points-funded family holiday and book dinner with ChatGPT agent (partial)

For a points-funded family holiday plan, ChatGPT agent built a decent deck but spent 15 minutes formatting slides; it couldn't book the romantic dinner.

Apply to a job with ChatGPT agent (small-button trouble)

Testing ChatGPT agent on a real job application (to OpenAI), the poster found it much better than the earlier Operator but it struggled to click small buttons; they rated Manus as slightly ahead at times.

Check a hotel price with ChatGPT agent (wrong town)

Asked to check a hotel's price with its town clearly stated, ChatGPT agent looked up a same-named hotel in another town, and the poster notes this wouldn't have been obvious from the reply.

Order groceries from H-E-B with ChatGPT agent (access denied)

The poster tried to order groceries from H-E-B in Austin with ChatGPT agent, but it failed because access was denied.

Download a gated marketing report and summarize it with ChatGPT agent

SE Ranking's reviewer asked ChatGPT agent to get HubSpot's 2025 State of Marketing report; it found the page, filled in the gated form, downloaded the report and wrote a summary without help, but Google blocked it from signing in to email the summary because it was using an unsupported browser.

Build a saved Google Maps list of a city's best restaurants with ChatGPT agent

Frank Andrade asked ChatGPT agent to find the best restaurants in the city they were about to visit and save them as a new Google Maps list with notes on signature dishes. It picked 10 restaurants, collected their signature dishes, paused for them to enter their Google login, then created and saved the list with notes; it took about 23 minutes.

Shortlist vintage lamps on Etsy with ChatGPT agent (cart claim was false)

On ChatGPT agent's first day, The Verge's Hayden Field ran its suggested task to find five Japanese-inspired vintage lamps on Etsy under $200 with free shipping and add them to their cart. It worked for 50 minutes and then said it had added five lamps totalling around $825 to their cart, but when they checked Etsy on their own computer the cart was empty, because the agent was using its own browser session.

File Thailand Digital Arrival Cards for five travelers with ChatGPT agent

ChatGPT agent filled Thailand Digital Arrival Cards for 5 people (about an hour / 16 credits); the poster verified the preview and swapped in real passport numbers before submitting.

Hunt last-minute holiday flights with multiple agents (failure case)

Claude Opus 4.5, Gemini 3 Pro and ChatGPT agent mode only matched a manual Google Flights search and were too slow as cheap fares vanished; the humans beat them by about 15%.

Plan St. Simons Island restaurants with ChatGPT agent

ChatGPT agent mode produced a dining guide for a 4-day St. Simons Island trip organized by meal and price, and the author ate at 4 restaurants from the list and liked them all.

Find working coupon codes at checkout with ChatGPT agent

ChatGPT agent kept trying coupon codes until it found ones that worked; the poster says it saved them $79.

Poster says:$79 saved

Find local takeout deals under a budget with ChatGPT agent

The Tom's Guide author uses ChatGPT agent to scour delivery apps and local restaurants for family takeout deals under a set budget.

Track and cancel unused subscriptions with ChatGPT agent

ChatGPT agent scans for recurring charges and reminds the author to cancel before renewal, helping cancel unused streaming services.

Daily product restock check with ChatGPT agent

A scheduled ChatGPT agent checks every day whether a product is in stock, reports at 8am, and even flags status changes like 'out of stock' becoming 'coming soon'.

Weekly X analytics review and growth coaching with ChatGPT agent

Every Monday ChatGPT agent pulls the poster's X analytics, studies which posts worked, compares profile visits with follower growth, and suggests bio and pinned-post changes.

Compare top social media tools in a spreadsheet with ChatGPT agent and Claude

Allie K. Miller asked both ChatGPT agent mode and Claude's Excel feature to compare top social media tools, and Claude finished in 3 minutes vs 8 with denser decision support, though some prices mixed annual vs monthly.

Categorize 419 ledger transactions into an Excel template with ChatGPT agent

Given an Excel ledger template and 419 transactions, ChatGPT agent asked for help on ambiguous merchants, then keyed in all ~400 rows and took 4 minutes.

Poster says:Done in 4 minutes

Allocate a 30-employee payroll journal across departments with ChatGPT agent

ChatGPT agent mapped a payroll CSV into a 30-employee allocation spreadsheet across 6 departments, making 180 entries and summing employer-paid columns in under 4 minutes.

Poster says:180 entries in under 4 minutes

Find the best flight options on Skyscanner with ChatGPT agent

ChatGPT agent searched Skyscanner across flexible dates and returned the flight the author would actually book in 3 of 3 tests, though airline sites and 3D Secure blocked it from completing the booking.

Search for cheap flights with ChatGPT agent (failure case)

ChatGPT agent suggested flights costing $1,400 when the poster found an $850 option on their own.