The demo in the workshop shows a general capability of an agent, and the gap you feel is exactly the distance between seeing a method and recognizing which task of yours it actually solves. The right task is already there, something you do every week with a clear input and a clear output, you just have not named it in those words yet.
I hear this a lot, in almost these exact words: "I saw the material and the workshop but have no idea how it helps me," and also "I understand the idea on a theoretical level, it just has not clicked in practice yet." Both lines describe the same gap in someone who genuinely understood the demo, they understand the method but are still working out which task of theirs it solves. Someone else's successful exercise, however clear it was, becomes your task only once you connect it to your own daily work.
The exercise that works: write a list of everything you did last week that repeats every single week, something you do on autopilot without thinking twice (a recurring report, a reply you give every time, a meeting summary). From that list, circle the one item you could explain to a new hire in exactly five lines, what goes in and what has to come out. That is your agent's task, regardless of the demo you saw.
On our own team we do exactly this with every new agent that joins, we start from the recurring-task list of the role, and only then build its definition around that list, instead of spreading out over a theoretical list of capabilities.
I see this every week in the inbox, people write to me about what they want from an agent before they have told me what they actually do day to day, and I answer with one simple request: describe one task from this week that repeated itself (the exact same exercise, just by email).
A prompt, on the house
Go through everything I did this past week, and help me find the task
inside it that repeats itself with no exceptions.
For every item on the list I give you:
1. Ask me exactly what input I need before I can start this task.
2. Ask me exactly what output I produce at the end.
3. If input or output are not clear to me myself, keep asking until they
are, instead of guessing for me.
At the end, give me one sentence describing the chosen task the way you
would describe a job to a new hire.Write the list tonight, circle one task, and watch within a week how the gap between the demo and your real task simply closes.
