Decide whether this should be an agent at all
I'm considering building an agent for: {{describe the task}}. Volume: {{how often}}. Current cost: {{time or money}}. Consequence of a mistake: {{describe}}. Assess honestly: 1. H…
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Prompts for Zapier
Community-tested ways to get more useful results from Zapier.
Add a promptAutomate the task you keep redoing
I do this repeatedly: {{describe the task, how often, how long it takes, the tools involved, where the data comes from and goes}}. 1. Map the current process as discrete steps, ma…
144 copies · 25 likesTurn a manual checklist into a reliable automation
Here's a checklist my team runs manually: {{paste checklist}}. It runs {{frequency}}, takes {{time}}, and mistakes cause {{consequence}}. 1. For each item, classify: fully automat…
114 copies · 20 likesWrite the escalation path for an agent that gets stuck
Agent: {{what it does}}. It runs {{how often}}, and when it stalls today the result is {{what actually happens — usually nothing}}. Humans available: {{roles and hours}}. Define t…
72 copies · 12 likesDaily briefing agent that earns its slot
Write today's briefing from these inputs: {{metrics, calendar, inbox summary, alerts, industry news, team updates}}. My role: {{role}}. What I'm accountable for: {{list}}. Structu…
96 copies · 13 likesFind out where an automation is quietly burning money
You are an engineer auditing the running cost of an automation, not redesigning it. I will describe the workflow and what it currently costs. Produce: 1. COST TABLE — one row per …
84 copies · 13 likesHuman-in-the-loop design that isn't rubber stamping
My automation does {{describe}} and I want a human approving before {{action}}. Volume: {{per day}}. Cost of a bad approval: {{consequence}}. Design the review step so it's real: …
72 copies · 10 likesRebuild a fragile chain of automations as one workflow you trust
You are an automation engineer inheriting someone else's mess. Describe the current setup: {{list every zap, scenario, script or agent involved — trigger, what it does, where outpu…
48 copies · 9 likesMove an automation off a tool you are about to lose
You are my automation engineer. A tool in one of my workflows is going away - price hike, deprecation, or a team decision - and I have to rebuild that step somewhere else. Return …
45 copies · 8 likesCut an agent's tool list down to the ones it actually uses
You are auditing the tool list of an AI agent that has become slow, expensive and unpredictable. Below are the tools it can call and a sample of recent runs. Produce: 1. USAGE TA…
49 copies · 8 likesWrite the retry and failure rules for an automation that breaks quietly
You are a reliability engineer reviewing an automation. It works most days and fails in ways nobody notices. The workflow, step by step: {{trigger, each step, the service it calls,…
61 copies · 7 likesAutomate a spreadsheet process without breaking the spreadsheet
You are an automation engineer. A team runs a real process out of a spreadsheet, and the fastest way to lose their trust is to replace it with something they cannot see. The sheet…
40 copies · 8 likesHand an automation over to someone who did not build it
You are the ops engineer who has to own someone else's automation from Monday. The workflow: {{what it does, which tools it touches, how often it runs}}. Paste the actual steps, no…
62 copies · 6 likesVersion a prompt that is already running in production
You are helping me change a prompt that is live and used by other people. Current prompt: {{paste it}}. What it feeds: {{workflow, who consumes the output, how often it runs}}. Why…
62 copies · 6 likesDecide what data your agent should never be allowed to see
You are an engineer who has cleaned up after an automation that had more access than it needed. What the agent does and who it acts for: {{short description}}. Every source it can…
28 copies · 6 likesTurn a shared inbox into a queue an agent can safely work
You are designing the automation that triages a shared inbox before anyone touches it. Below are sample messages and the categories we handle today. 1. CATEGORY SET - table: Categ…
33 copies · 6 likesDecide whether a workflow needs an agent at all
You are a pragmatic automation engineer talking me out of over-building. The work I want to automate: {{describe the task end to end, who does it now, how often, how long it takes}…
41 copies · 6 likesDecide what to log so you can debug an agent run a week later
You are a reliability engineer reviewing an AI agent workflow. Below is its description and a run that went wrong. Design the logging I need to diagnose runs like this after the fa…
39 copies · 5 likesDecide what an agent should do when its tool returns nothing
You are an agent reliability engineer. Here is my agent's tool list and what each returns: {{paste tool names, inputs, and a sample success + sample empty/failed response for each}…
52 copies · 5 likesDecide what an agent may write, change or delete in a live system
You are the engineer who has to sign off on giving an agent write access to a production system. Below is what the agent does and where it will be pointed. Define its permissions b…
40 copies · 4 likesDecide what an agent does when nobody answers its approval request
You are designing the approval step in an automation. Below is the workflow and the action that needs a human to say yes. Decide what happens when the human does not reply. 1. APP…
14 copies · 5 likesDecide what an agent should do when the same request arrives twice
You are designing duplicate-handling rules for an automation that takes actions in real systems. Below is the trigger, the actions it performs, the systems it writes to, and the wa…
21 copies · 4 likesDecide what an agent should escalate to a person and what it should just do
You are an automation reviewer who has cleaned up after agents that asked permission for everything and agents that asked for nothing. What the agent does, step by step: {{paste t…
40 copies · 3 likesAudit an automation you have not looked at in six months
You are reviewing a workflow that has been running unattended. Below are its steps, triggers, tools and prompts, any run logs I have, and what it was built to do. 1. STILL TRUE? -…
16 copies · 4 likesMake an agent's output fit the system that has to consume it
You are the engineer making a model's output safe for a downstream system. Below is the target schema or field list, the system that receives it (API, spreadsheet, CRM), sample mod…
18 copies · 3 likesEstimate what an agent will cost per month before you build it
You are an engineer who has run LLM agents in production and paid the bills. Below is the workflow I want to automate, expected volume and the model I plan to use. Estimate the mon…
18 copies · 3 likesWrite the summary an agent sends a human after every run
You are designing the report an automated agent posts to a human after each run. Below is what the agent does and who reads the report. Specify the summary, not the code. 1. WHAT …
15 copies · 2 likesRun a new automation in shadow mode before it acts for real
You are an operations engineer planning a staged rollout for an automation that will soon take real actions (send emails, update records, close tickets). Before it acts, it should …
9 copiesPut a spending cap and a kill switch on an agent before it runs unattended
You are an operations engineer who has been paged because an unattended agent looped all night. Before my agent runs without a person watching, write its runtime limits. Five secti…
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