Build a Weekly Report Agent: Day 1 of an Agent-a-Day Series for Scientists
nlarusstone · x · 2026-10-20
Kicking off an "an agent a day" series, the author starts simple: a Weekly Report Agent for scientists, automating the time-consuming retrieval of data and creation of status-update decks for lab or discovery meetings.
The author shares a tweakable prompt: have the agent summarize the past week's work into a slide deck, checking all notebook entries, any sequences or biological entities created, other mentions of the user, adding visualizations where appropriate and linking back to source data.
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