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Middle Capstone2–4 hours

Build an Automation

Design a multi-step agent that gets a task done on its own.

Your mission

Plan and build (or carefully storyboard) an automation that breaks a real task into steps an agent can run by itself.

What you'll need

  • A computer with internet
  • A free automation tool, or paper to storyboard
  • A task that has clear steps

Your step-by-step plan

  1. Choose a task

    Pick something repetitive — sorting messages, making a daily summary, organising files.

  2. Break it into steps

    List every step the agent must do, in order.

  3. Build the loop

    Set up the agent so it perceives, decides, and acts at each step.

  4. Test and supervise

    Run it, watch for mistakes, and add a check where it could go wrong.

Make it yours

  • Add a step that uses an outside tool.
  • Make the agent ask a human before a risky step.

How you'll know you succeeded

  • The task is broken into clear steps.
  • The agent runs more than one step.
  • You added at least one safety check.