🧱 Ready-made agents and workflows

A skill is a ask: it does one thing well. A workflow is the recipe: it links several pieces in order, and the result of one step becomes the input for the next. Instead of copying the result from one place to another, the workflow does it automatically.

Think of ordering food through an app: you tap once, and a series of steps happens behind the scenes — confirms the payment, alerts the kitchen, calls the delivery driver, and sends you the status. You don't handle each step yourself. An AI workflow is the same idea, but for work: search → check → summarize, or idea → text → image, chained together.

A subagent is an AI with just one role. Instead of asking one generic AI to do everything, you build a small team: one that just research, one that just reviews, one that just writes. Each one does their part better because they have a narrow, clear instruction.

The good news: you don't have to invent these roles. There are ready-made templates — standard descriptions of “what this agent is, what it does, and what it doesn’t do.” You copy the template, tweak a detail or two, and you’ve got your team member.

The research workflow is the “Columbus’s egg” of workflows: three simple steps that, together, save you hours. Search the sources, check whether they’re reliable and agree with each other, and summarize in a report with the sources noted. Each step has a clear purpose.

The middle step — checking — is what separates research from rumor. That’s where the workflow discards anything without a source and flags anything uncertain. Without it, all you have is a polished summary of something that may be wrong.

Você é meu agente de pesquisa. Faça este workflow em 3 passos,
me mostrando o resultado de cada passo antes de seguir:

TEMA: <o que você quer pesquisar, ex: melhores planos de celular pré-pago>

PASSO 1 — BUSCAR: liste de 4 a 6 fontes recentes sobre o tema,
com o título e o link de cada uma.

PASSO 2 — CONFERIR: para cada fonte, diga se é confiável e se
concorda com as outras. Descarte as duvidosas e me avise quais.

PASSO 3 — RESUMIR: escreva um relatório de 1 página com:
  - 3 a 5 conclusões principais (cada uma com a fonte ao lado),
  - 1 ponto em que as fontes discordam,
  - o que ainda ficou em aberto.

Creating content from scratch is tiring. A workflow turns it into a production line: idea → script → text → image. Each stage delivers something concrete that the next one uses — the outline guides the text, the text suggests the image. You provide the idea and review things at the handoff points.

The image below is the blueprint for this pipeline. Notice that it's not magic: it's the same chaining logic from topic 1, applied to creative work. The value is in not starting from scratch with every post.

The template is the skeleton; you add the substance. Adapting means changing three things: the tools (where it searches, where it saves), the steps (remove what you don't need, add what's missing) and the delivers (the format you want at the end). There's no need to rewrite the workflow — just adjust these pieces.

Golden rule: change one thing at a time and test. If you change everything at once and it breaks, you won’t know which change caused it. Small adjustments, one at a time, keep control in your hands.

The longer the workflow, the more chances a small mistake can snowball. The fix is simple: checkpoints between steps. Before an action that affects the real world—sending an email, deleting a file, spending money—the workflow pauses and asks for your OK.

The practical rule: steps that only read or draft can run on their own; steps that make a real difference require confirmation. This keeps the workflow fast, but nothing irreversible happens without you seeing it.