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Module 4 of 4Lesson 2 of 3~15 min

Building a dedicated assistant, then handing tasks to an agent

Some tasks come back every week and deserve better than a prompt pasted in by hand. This lesson helps you design a reliable assistant for one of them, then judge when an agent that acts on its own makes sense, and what human oversight to keep over the work it does for you.

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Lesson objective

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to configure an assistant dedicated to a recurring task, test it on real cases, and decide whether a task justifies an agent, with which human approval points.

Topics covered

  • custom AI assistant
  • AI agents
  • automating recurring tasks
  • human in the loop

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Where it fits

Set up an assistant, work with diligence

How do you stop starting from scratch, hand more work to AI and stay accountable for the result?

Lessons in this module

  1. Stop repeating yourself with standing instructions and projects
  2. Building a dedicated assistant, then handing tasks to an agent (this lesson)
  3. Working with diligence

What you will learn in this module

This lesson is part of the course Prompting for Product Managers: delegate, describe, verify

  • Configure standing instructions and a dedicated assistant for a recurring task, test it on real cases, and decide when to move to an agent.
  • Apply diligence rules (shared data, transparency, accountability) before using or circulating work produced with AI.

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