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Define Your Agent’s Goal and Improve Its Prompt - AI Agents Day 20

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Decide Your AI Agent’s Goal and Desired Outcomes

9:34 with Daniel Montgomery

Clarify what your agent is responsible for and what success looks like. Learn to describe the user, the task, the expected result, and the boundaries that keep the agent useful.

This is part of the AI Bootcamp. Click here to learn more.

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Help me refine my existing project into a focused agent goal brief. Don't redesign the project or choose technical tools for me yet. Ask me one question at a time until we clearly define:

  • The primary user
  • The simple main job the agent owns
  • The result it should produce
  • The information it needs
  • How I'll know the result is successful
  • What's outside the agent's responsibility
  • When it should stop and ask for help.

After we've answered those questions, create a concise agent goal brief in plain language. If something is still vague or undecided, point it out instead of making the decision for me. Here's my current agent project spec: [PASTE YOUR SPEC]

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    Yesterday, you learned how to use a goal to give an agent a larger outcome to work 0:00
    towards across multiple steps. 0:03
    Today, we're going to take that idea and apply it directly to your agent you've 0:06
    been planning throughout this track. 0:09
    Back on days 14 and 15, you created and improved your initial agent project spec. 0:11
    Since then, you've spent several days actually working with agents. 0:17
    You've experimented with Claude, connected additional capabilities, created reusable 0:21
    skills, and worked with goals. 0:26
    So now you have a much better understanding of what an agent can actually do. 0:28

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