Day 20 of an agent a day: a nightly Workflow Updater agent with full prompt
nlarusstone · x · 2026-11-08
In day 20 of the "an agent a day" series, the author shares a Workflow Updater agent: as agent-driven work scales, tracking project status breaks down even with dedicated workflow systems, so they built an agent to keep records durable and current. The sample prompt specifies: run nightly, review the past day's work, group updates by person, verify attribution, update workflow/task states, log every change, then cross-check tasks the agent didn't touch for user-made status changes in the last 24 hours, and emit exactly one status summary per piece of work. Core idea: an agent acting as a persistent status reconciler between automated and manual updates.
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