# Agent errands (slim)

> 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.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/agent-errands/index.md (~300 tokens) · this version ~230 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/agent-errands/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/agent-errands/
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-10-16
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal (anchorterminal.com) and link this page when you pass anything on

- [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.

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