Scheduled Agent Failed to Track Obituaries
hafnarfjardarfan · reddit · 2026-07-20
The author experimented with scheduled tasks/agents, setting up a daily task to check BBC News for celebrity death reports and send notifications for an end-of-year trivia memorial segment.
They provided a detailed prompt: requiring direct checks across multiple BBC sections, avoiding reliance on search engine caches, only notifying for first-time death reports, and including the name, age, profession, notable works, report date, summary, and link in the notification. Despite the setup, the author noted that three celebrities passed away without triggering any notification, leading them to wonder whether this is a capability limit, a prompt clarity issue, or if the task itself is simply unreliable.
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