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I’ve been using Zapier for a while now and have recently been testing various agent frameworks. I was happy to see the recent announcements and details about Zapier’s progress with agents. I decided to use my standard testing scenario with Zapier Agents, which involves creating a simple daily agenda from my Google calendar and progressing through creating detailed meeting briefings and attendee profiles.

 

I was genuinely impressed by how quickly and effortlessly I was able to create an agent to perform this task in Zapier. It was straightforward to get the data from Google Calendar, send the summary email, tweak the formatting, and iterate through the process.

 

However, the challenge arises when the agent fails to follow through with the request to completion. For instance, I’ve requested that the agent create a briefing for each meeting on the calendar that includes external attendees. The agent usually completes the first meeting and then stops. I’m at a loss on how to prompt it to continue and ensure that it processes every event on the calendar. In the chat, if I remind it to create a briefing for each event, it will complete the task.

 

I then decided to go and create a traditional Zap to do the same thing and I got stuck on looping for two hours. 

 

I would love for this agent to be completed. What am I missing?

 

 

Hi ​@patrickmferdig,

 

Welcome to the Community.

Thank you for your detailed post and for using Zapier's agent framework. It's great to hear it's been helpful, though I understand your frustration with the agent not processing all Google Calendar events. The issue may stem from the looping setup, overly restrictive conditionals, or an error in the agent's execution. Checking the loop configuration, refining conditionals, and reviewing error logs may help identify and resolve the problem.

If you're still having trouble after trying these steps, please provide more details about how you've set up your agent. This will help us better understand the issue and provide more specific guidance.

Hey there, ​@patrickmferdig 👋 

I just came across this and wanted to check how it’s going—were you able to get the agent to create the briefings for all the meetings?

If not, can you share a screenshot of the instructions you’ve given the agent so we can get a bit more context into it’s exact set up. And if you’d like some help with fixing your workaround of running the agent in a Zap can you share some screenshots showing the set up of the looping action, as well as any actions that run in the loop so we can get a better idea of what might be causing some trouble. Be sure to blur/remove any personal information like names, emails etc. from screenshots before sharing (you can use a tool like Zappy for that).

Thanks, look forward to your reply! 🙂

No, I can't figure out any way to get the agent to follow through. There's generally 4 to 5 meetings on my calendar per day and it only does a summary for two or three. 

Hi ​@patrickmferdig,

I’d recommend reaching out to our Zapier Agents Team regarding your query. You can contact our Zapier Agents Team here: https://npsup.zapier.app/contact-us?product=Agents

Hopefully, this helps.

I think I’m having the same thing happen. Specifically, I want the agent to process an excel document with 890 rows at least once per day. It will process 3 or 4 and then say “I've reached the limit of 11 actions per message. Shall I continue with the rest?” To which I have to click a button telling it to continue in order to do the next 3 or 4. It would be faster to do myself. I had built some agents through Zapier a few months ago and it had these limits. I thought it was just a short term thing, but I guess this is just how it is? I’m hoping to build AI Agents without Limits. 

Hi ​@lawsont,

Thanks for reporting this here.

I recommend reporting this to our Zapier Agents team as well so that they can take a closer look at this.

You can reach our Zapier Agents team here: https://npsup.zapier.app/contact-us?product=Agents

I appreciate your patience and understanding.

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