Agents
11 pieces of practical AI on agents.
Build a HubSpot Agent That Starts With Ten Stale Deals
A step-by-step guide to HubSpot's Agent Builder: what it connects to CRM data, how credits work, and how to run a safe ten-deal stale review test.
Build a measured knowledge-work pilot with Grok Bot and Grok 4.6
A revenue operations vice president starts Monday with 126 incomplete CRM records and 14 follow-ups waiting for context. Account research requests keep arriving. A chatbot can explain how to clean the queue.
Build an AI Roster, Then Make Every Model Earn Its Place
Grok Bot and Hermes Bot Mode make persistent specialists practical, while Gemini Flash and GPT-5.6 Sol turn AI speed into a cost decision.
Give a research agent an evidence contract and a finish line
Copy a long-horizon research prompt that controls sources, flags weak evidence, and delivers a one-page decision brief with a clear finish line.
AI Teammates Stay on the Job After You Log Off
Compare Grok Bot, Claude Tag, Claude Cowork, and portable Hermes profiles, then test one bounded job for attention removed after review.
Measure attention removed, not agent activity
Evaluate an AI agent by completed steps, interruptions, repair time, and attention hours removed instead of runtime or visible activity.
Slackbot can now build the dashboard, run the math, and draft the deck
Slack's new Advanced Features turn a channel request into a live Surface, a checked calculation, or an editable presentation.
Build a self-updating team dashboard inside Slack
A paired Slackbot Surface and Skill can replace one manually rebuilt status report, if the metric, source, and review owner are clear.
Test Grok 4.5 on one coding workflow before changing the default
xAI's $2 input and $6 output pricing makes Grok 4.5 an interesting agentic coding option, but the useful decision comes from a measured comparison on real work.
The Best Models for Hermes Agent for Q3 2026
A source-linked Q3 2026 guide to the best Hermes Agent models, NVIDIA Build free routes, secure setup steps, and compatible agent platforms.
Free LLM APIs in 2026: verified limits, benchmarks, and real costs
Compare the current free LLM API sources, including NVIDIA NIM, Google, Cerebras, Groq, OpenRouter, SambaNova, Cohere, Cloudflare, and Hugging Face.
Three deep dives. Four useful moves. One email worth opening.
PromptHacker turns the AI firehose into practical next steps for work, health, family, and everything time keeps trying to steal.