The REPEAT check
Should this job go to an agent at all?
Score Repeats, Explainable, Pipes exist, Errors cheap, Approvable and Time-hungry from 0 to 2. 9 to 12 means delegate now; 0 to 5 means keep it or redesign it first.
A practical field guide · Research edition · November 2026
The Agent at Your Desk
Mastering computer-use AI, rare connectors and custom plugins for real work.
AI gives you answers. The hard part is what comes after: six tabs, forty files, one invoice to chase. This book shows you how to hand that part to an AI agent, find connectors most people never discover, and build your own when nothing off the shelf fits. The methods work in any harness: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor or whatever comes next.
145 pages · PDF + EPUBEnglish + हिंदी6 parts · 18 chapters57 figures3 case studies30-day plan
₹499incl. 18% GST · instant download
The Reel from Build with Ashish, narrated in Ashish's AI-cloned voice. Graphics built with Claude.
Contents
Delegate. Discover. Build.
- Part I
The New Desk
From chatbot to coworker · How agents actually use a computer · Setting up your agent workstation
- Part II
Delegation Mastery
Writing tasks an agent can finish · Ten workflows that pay for themselves · Supervising, verifying and recovering
- Part III
The Connector Hunt
Where connectors live · The rare and the underrated · Vetting a connector before you trust it
- Part IV
Build Your Own
When to build · Your first MCP server · Skills, plugins and packaging · Building like a professional
- Part V
Operating at a Professional Level
Your AI operating system · The 30-day mastery plan
- Part VI
Case Studies
The consultant's Monday report · The agency content engine · The ops lead's invoice desk
Plus: answers · glossary · visual cheat sheet · sources and further reading
The whole book follows one loop, the Agent Desk Loop: set up, brief, run, review, hunt, build, operate. Every chapter opens with a "you are here" strip and ends with a Test yourself quiz.
The research edition
Built on evidence, not hype
This edition was revised after a systematic review of the books, talks, research papers and official guides practitioners rely on most, from Ethan Mollick's Co-Intelligence and Chip Huyen's AI Engineering to the OSWorld and METR studies, OWASP's agentic risk list and Anthropic's engineering guides. Where the evidence changes what you should do, a green "What the research says" box tells you, with its source named.
12.2% → about 85%Tasks finished on the OSWorld computer-use benchmark, April 2024 to November 2026
~4 monthsHow often the length of task agents can finish now doubles (METR, 2026)
19 ptsHow much less likely BCG consultants were to be right on a task just outside AI's frontier
Four ideas from inside
Real pages, not a pitch deck
Every chapter is built around a diagram you can use the same day. Here are four of them, straight from the book.
Pixels vs pipes
One tool call beats twenty clicks
Screenshots and clicks are slow and fragile. A tool call through the Model Context Protocol is fast and easy to check. Use pipes wherever they exist, and pixels only for the last mile.
The GOALS brief
Brief it like a colleague
Agents fail in whichever part of the brief you leave out.
GGoal
OOrigin
AApproach
LLeave alone
SSuccess test
The five-minute review
Don't watch it work. Check it.
Read the summary and confidence list, spot-check three items, verify one number at its source, open it the way the recipient will, then approve. If two of three spot-checks fail, fix the brief and rerun.
Chapter 5 · Ten workflows that pay for themselves
- Inbox triage
- Competitor briefing
- Invoice collection
- CRM tidy-up
- Meeting prep pack
- Social calendar
- Reconciliation
- Web form filling
- File reorganising
- Weekly report
Each recipe follows the same safety shape: read, propose, approve, act in batches, log.
Part VI · Case studies
Three real jobs, the whole loop
Each case study runs one complete project from the REPEAT check to a working system, on the same template you can reuse for your own work. They are composite scenarios with illustrative numbers.
The consultant's Monday report
Four clients, a one-page update every Monday, and two and a half hours of copying numbers. A builder session drafts and an auditor session checks.
The agency content engine
A six-person agency turns one blog post a week for each of eight clients into social posts, with skills keeping every client on brand.
The ops lead's invoice desk
About 300 supplier invoices a month matched to purchase orders, and how to spot when a small custom server is the missing piece.
The 30-day plan
About 30 minutes most days
Chapter 15 is a day-by-day plan, one small step a day, so reading turns into a working, measured setup by the end of the month.
Week 1
Foundations
Week 2
Delegation
Week 3
The huntFind and vet the connectors your work needs.
Week 4
BuildBuild and test your own MCP server, connect it, package it as a plugin, and run your first weekly review.
FoundationsDelegationThe huntBuildYour system
By day 30A working agent desk, a set of trusted recipes, a vetted connector stack, your first skill, your first server, and the numbers to prove it pays.
What you get
Everything after the answer
Set up the desk
How the model, the harness and connectors fit together, a safe first-hour setup, and the REPEAT check for deciding which jobs to hand over.
Delegate real tasks
The GOALS brief, plus ten workflows that pay for themselves, each with what you need, the prompt, what you get and how it tends to fail.
Find rare connectors
Where connectors live, the rare and underrated ones, and a vetting check before you trust any of them.
Supervise and recover
The five-minute review, the signs that mean stop and take over, and how to undo a mistake.
Build your own server
Build desk-notes, your first MCP server, from an empty folder. The code was run and tested before printing, then package it with a skill as a plugin.
See it end to end
Three case studies that run the full loop, and a Test yourself quiz in every chapter with answers at the back.
Get the playbook
Put an agent at your desk
- PDF and EPUB, research edition, November 2026
- Hindi edition included: आपकी डेस्क पर Agent (155-page PDF + EPUB)
- Ten workflow recipes and three full case studies
- Companion files: desk_notes.py and its test
- The day-by-day 30-day plan
- One-page cheat sheet, glossary and an annotated sources list
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Questions
What format is it?
A 145-page PDF plus an EPUB for e-readers, with the Chapter 11 code and its test as companion files. The sample code is MIT-licensed. It reads well on a laptop, tablet or phone, and prints cleanly.
Do I need to code?
No. Parts I to III assume no coding at all. Part IV walks you through building your own connector line by line, and if you have edited a spreadsheet formula, you can follow it.
Which AI apps does it cover?
It teaches methods that work in any harness: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor or whatever comes next. Where a specific tool is the clearest way to show an idea, the book names it and says when it was checked.
Will it go out of date?
Every product claim was checked against the vendor's own documentation in November 2026, and the text flags details likely to move, like menu names and prices. The principles come first and the buttons second.
Is there a Hindi version?
Yes, and it comes free with every purchase. आपकी डेस्क पर Agent is the full book in conversational Hindi, with tech terms kept in English, as a PDF and an EPUB. Prompts, code and diagram labels stay in English so they work as written.
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