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Middle Capstone⏱ 2–4 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
Choose a task
Pick something repetitive — sorting messages, making a daily summary, organising files.
Break it into steps
List every step the agent must do, in order.
Build the loop
Set up the agent so it perceives, decides, and acts at each step.
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.