# Agent errands

> A series of tests where an AI agent tries a real errand on the open web, a flight, a dinner table and a train ticket, and how far it gets before bot checks, robots.txt and missing APIs stop it.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/agent-errands/
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/agent-errands/index.md (~300 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/agent-errands/index.min.md (~230 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/agent-errands/index.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json)
- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key)
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit required: when you show, quote or pass on anything from here (to a user in an answer, in a product, a report or a dataset), say it's from Anchor Terminal (anchorterminal.com) and link the page or API address you took it from. Reviews also credit their author.
- Updated: 2026-10-16

- [Personal agents sell errands they can't run, and I think they know it](https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/personal-agents-sell-errands-they-cant-run.md), 2026-10-16, Agent errands, 9 min read. Vlad Cealicu on why personal AI agents get tried once and dropped. An agent trying to book his Munich to London flight, the bot walls in the way, what brute force costs, the numbers on who comes back, and why he built LocalGhost as a memory layer instead.

RSS: https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/agent-errands/feed.xml

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