7 MIND BLOWING Automations You Won’t Believe You Can Do With AI Agents (New Use Cases)

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🔎 1) Automated Code and PR Review — Have an AI Audit Your Repos

One of the most jaw-dropping things I showed is getting an AI agent to analyze pull requests in a GitHub repo and leave detailed review comments — automatically. Think about it: a tool that reads your code, flags security holes, lists maintainability problems, and returns an ordered list of fixes with priorities. That’s exactly what I built with DeepAgent in my demo.

Why this matters: code review is a bottleneck for many teams. Human reviewers miss things, get overloaded, or introduce delays. An AI agent can consistently apply a checklist to every PR, surface issues early, and save engineering time for the problems that truly need human judgment.

How it works in practice:

  • The AI agent asks a few clarifying questions (e.g., scope of review, framework or language constraints, security priorities). I love this part — the agent clarifies its assignment before running, which makes its output vastly more accurate.
  • It spins up a job that clones the repo, runs static analysis and custom heuristics, and generates a multi-page report with key findings and prioritized recommendations.
  • The agent can post comments directly on the PR or create issues, and you can configure it to open suggested PR branches to fix obvious problems.

Concrete prompt you can reuse:

“Review open pull requests in this repository. Provide: (1) critical security vulnerabilities, (2) maintainability issues, (3) performance hotspots, and (4) exact code changes (diffs) recommended. Prioritize by severity and include remediation steps.”

When to use this:

  • Continuous PR hygiene for fast-moving teams
  • Security audits for new components
  • Open-source maintainers needing automated triage

📝 2) Weekly Blog Automation — Publish to WordPress Without Lifting a Finger

Content is a time sink. Writing, formatting, and publishing weekly blog posts can eat hours from your schedule. I showed how an AI agent can be tasked to write a weekly post, format it to your style, and either draft it for approval or publish it directly to your WordPress site.

What the agent does:

  1. Asks clarifying questions: target audience, tone, length, topics to prioritize, and any custom style guide.
  2. Schedules posts on a defined cadence (weekly, monthly, etc.).
  3. Generates the content, formats it for your WordPress editor, and publishes to a specific URL or drafts for human approval.
  4. Notifies you via email or Slack when posts are published (you can customize notifications).

Sample automation workflow I used:

  • Trigger: Every Saturday
  • Task: Generate a 900–1,200 word blog about “How AI will change X industry” with both optimistic and skeptical perspectives (Boomers vs Doomers framing).
  • Output: Publish to WordPress on /blog/ai-weekly and ping Slack #content for review.

Why this is valuable:

This drastically cuts the content production cycle. You keep editorial control (approve or edit drafts), or you give the agent permission to publish. Either way, you spend far less time on ideation, drafting, and formatting.

🎨 3) Refactor and Re-theme Websites — AI as Your Front-End Dev

Imagine telling an AI, “Refactor this website’s UI and style it to a Netflix theme with a dark mode toggle,” and the system creates a new branch, updates the styles, and pushes the changes to your repository. That’s what we did in the demo.

This goes beyond small CSS tweaks. The agent can:

  • Create a new GitHub branch named something like refactor/ui-netflix-theme
  • Modify components, update styling variables, and add a theme-switcher
  • Run basic tests and provide a live preview of the updated site
  • Push code, open a PR, and include a change summary

How to frame the prompt:

“Connect to my GitHub repo. Create a new branch called ‘refactor-netflix-theme’. Refactor the UI to adopt a Netflix-like aesthetic: dark background, large hero banner, carousel cards, hover animations. Add a theme switcher to toggle between original and Netflix themes. Run any build/tests and push changes.”

Practical uses:

  • Quick A/B visualizations to test new UX concepts
  • Theme rebrands for clients without hiring a dev team
  • Prototype different design systems rapidly

📣 4) 24/7 Lead Generation Agent — Find, Qualify, and Outreach Automatically

One of the most compelling business use cases is automating lead generation and outreach. I showed an agent that finds 25 qualified local business leads in California (cafes, clinics, real estate), analyzes their sites for quick wins, drafts personalized outreach, and can either fill contact forms or email them directly.

What this AI agent offers:

  • Targeted prospecting by industry, location, and business size
  • On-site analysis: the agent can say “form is misaligned” or “menu is broken”, and craft outreach explaining how you can help
  • Automated outreach via contact forms or Gmail integration
  • Tracking: exports to a spreadsheet, records outreach status, follow-up scheduling
  • Repeat scheduling so the agent continues prospecting on a set cadence

Example prompt pattern:

“Create an AI agent that helps my web design agency generate qualified leads from California. Objective: find 25 local businesses from cafes, clinics, and real estate. For each, provide a short site audit (1–2 bullet points), craft a personalized outreach email, and record results to a Google Sheet.”

Business impact:

This turns lead gen into a predictable, scalable process. Instead of ad-hoc prospecting, you have 24/7 outreach that learns from responses, maintains follow-up, and fills your pipeline while you sleep.

🛠️ 5) Clone & Rebrand Open Source Projects — Customize Without Coding

The AI agent can take an open-source project, clone it, and apply brand changes and feature tweaks based on a simple plain-English instruction. In the demo we cloned an open-source calculator game and rebranded it with a new color palette, updated titles, and pushed the rebranded version to a new branch on GitHub.

Why this is powerful:

  • Leverage open-source templates as starting points for products
  • Rapidly produce branded demos for clients or pitches
  • Customize features (change theme, add analytics, alter copy) with minimal human work

Example workflow:

  1. Provide a repo URL for the open-source project.
  2. Tell the agent desired brand specs: color palette, fonts, logo, new names.
  3. Agent clones, modifies files, runs a build, and pushes to a new branch.

Prompt you can reuse:

“Clone this repo. Apply Abacus AI color palette, update the game title to ‘Abacus Theme’, replace primary colors and logos, and push to branch ‘abacus-theme’. Run build and upload the preview link.”

📊 6) Automated Reporting — Salesforce, Ads, Shopify, and Beyond

Stop manually pulling reports. An AI agent can log into dashboards (Salesforce, Google Ads, Shopify), gather data, generate structured summaries, and deliver human-readable reports or dashboards. In my example I created a Salesforce data summarization agent that produced weekly performance summaries per rep using markdown tables.

What this agent does:

  • Authenticates into your dashboards and extracts the necessary data (configured securely)
  • Runs analysis: leaderboards, trends, performance highlights, and action recommendations
  • Outputs structured markdown tables that are easy to interpret and publishable to Slack, email, or Google Drive
  • Schedules the report on a cadence you choose

Sample instruction:

“You are a Salesforce data summarization agent. Analyze deals closed and pipeline activity, and generate a weekly performance table per rep. Include total activity, conversion rate, top recommendations, and a short executive summary using markdown tables.”

Real-world value:

Marketing teams, sales ops, and agency owners can replace manual spreadsheet wrangling with automated analysis that delivers actionable insights every week. The agent can also highlight anomalies — like sudden drops in conversion — enabling faster interventions.

🔒 7) Security & Code Quality Checks for AI-Generated Apps

Many people are using AI-assisted coding tools (vite, Copilot, etc.) to build apps quickly. But speed often introduces security oversights. I demonstrated having an agent audit a repo built with AI assistance and it highlighted critical issues like exposed admin credentials, client-side authentication problems, insecure storage, markdown injection risks, and unsafe file uploads.

Capabilities of the agent:

  • Static and dynamic analysis to identify security vulnerabilities
  • Implementation technique identification (design patterns, frameworks used)
  • Actionable remediation steps and recommended security tools
  • Optionally, create automated PRs to fix some classes of issues

Prompt example:

“Review the repository and provide: (1) potential security vulnerabilities, (2) implementation techniques used, (3) suggestions for improving structure, performance, and maintainability. Highlight critical issues and provide recommended fixes.”

Why this is critical:

If you don’t know code and you’re generating apps with AI, you need a safety net. These agents act like an automated security auditor that knows where common AI-assist patterns go wrong and can fix or flag them before deployment.

⚙️ How to Get Started — Setup, Pricing, and Best Practices

Getting started with these automations is easier than you think. I used DeepAgent in my demos, and the setup pattern is similar across most agent platforms:

  1. Create an account (DeepAgent offers a low-cost entry; in my demo I mentioned a $10/month plan available in the pinned comment and on their site).
  2. Connect the services you want the agent to access: GitHub, WordPress, Google Drive, Gmail, Salesforce, Shopify, etc.
  3. Write a clear natural language prompt describing the objective, constraints, and desired output format. Include examples if helpful.
  4. Answer the agent’s clarification questions — this step is crucial for reliability.
  5. Test on a small scope first (one repo, a sample blog post, 5 leads), then expand automation once you verify outputs.

Best practices for reliability and safety:

  • Limit permissions: give the agent only the permissions it needs (e.g., repository read/write to a specific branch rather than organization-wide access).
  • Use review gates: configure the agent to draft for approval on sensitive tasks (publishing live posts, pushing major code changes).
  • Log everything: keep an audit trail of what the agent did and when.
  • Iterate prompts: small prompt improvements often yield large gains in output quality.

🔍 Comparing Tools and When to Use DeepAgent

There are many agent platforms popping up, but a few features set DeepAgent apart based on my testing:

  • Built-in browser automation: spins up a browser to interact with websites like a human would, enabling complex automations such as form submissions and site scraping.
  • Multi-LLM access (ChatLM in DeepAgent) — one dashboard where you can access multiple language models without paying separately for each.
  • Beginner-friendly UI with clear follow-up question flows so the agent confirms the assignment periodically.
  • Integration support for common tools: GitHub, WordPress, Gmail, Google Drive, Slack, Salesforce.

If you’re experimenting with AI agents for the first time, choose a platform that provides clear guidance, follow-up prompts, and sandboxed testing so you can safely test automations before applying them at scale.

✨ Advanced Tips, Prompts, and Patterns

Once you’re comfortable with basic automations, these patterns will unlock more advanced capabilities:

  • Chain-of-tasks: have one agent extract data, another analyze it, and a third publish the report to stakeholders.
  • Monitoring agents: build small agents that watch a site or dashboard and trigger workflows only when certain conditions are met (e.g., conversion dips below threshold).
  • Self-healing PRs: combine automated detection with automated small fixes (lint, dependency updates, test tweaks) and leave larger design decisions for human review.
  • Personalization templates: create email templates with placeholders the agent fills dynamically based on on-site audits (e.g., “Your contact form is missing a confirmation — here’s how we can fix that”).

Prompt engineering example for multi-step tasks:

“Step 1: Find 25 cafes in San Diego and evaluate their websites for mobile-friendliness and booking flow. Step 2: For each, provide a 2-sentence audit and a personalized outreach email. Step 3: Log results in Google Sheets and schedule a 2-week follow-up if no reply.”

Small but crucial trick: always ask the agent to output a short summary at the top and a detailed appendix at the bottom. That way stakeholders can read a quick one-paragraph executive summary or dig into the full findings.

🧭 Ethics, Safety, and Permissioning

While these automations are powerful, they must be used responsibly:

  • Consent and privacy: ensure the agent is allowed to access third-party websites and that outreach follows anti-spam laws in your region (e.g., CAN-SPAM, CASL in Canada).
  • Credentials handling: use secure secrets managers and avoid exposing credentials to long-lived agents without strict scopes.
  • Responsible automation: limit automated outreach volume to rates that won’t be considered abusive.

Always include human-in-the-loop controls for actions with reputational or legal impact (public posts, contract changes, bulk outreach). Agents excel at repetitive tasks; humans should stay in the loop for ethical judgments.

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📌 Resources & Where to Start

To try these automations yourself:

  • DeepAgent: https://deepagent.abacus.ai/rqm (as used in my demos; offers browser automation and multi-LLM access)
  • Set up secure integrations for GitHub, WordPress, Gmail, and Salesforce — create test accounts and repos to validate behaviors first.
  • Experiment with the short prompts in this article, then iterate based on results.

✅ Conclusion — Why You Should Try AI Agents Today

AI agents are no longer niche toys. They’re practical tools that streamline real tasks — from code reviews and security audits to content production, lead generation, and full-site refactors. The consistent theme I showed is simplicity: tell the AI what you want in plain English, answer a few clarifying questions, and it runs a script that actually delivers a result.

I’ve reviewed hundreds of tools, and DeepAgent stands out for beginner-friendliness, the ability to spin up browser automation, and access to multiple LLMs through a single dashboard (ChatLM). Start small — run one scheduled report, draft a blog post, or let the agent audit a single PR. Once the output meets your bar, scale up.

If you want to get started quickly, I recommend trying the lead generation and the blog automation first — they provide immediate, measurable ROI and help you get comfortable with orchestration, permissions, and review gates.

❓ FAQ

How much technical skill do I need to set up these automations?

Minimal technical skill is required to start. Most agent platforms like DeepAgent have point-and-click connectors for common services (GitHub, WordPress, Gmail). You need to write clear objectives in plain English and respond to a few clarifying questions. For complex tasks (deep code refactors), basic familiarity with Git and testing is helpful so you can review outputs.

Are these automations safe to run with production credentials?

Use caution. Grant least-privilege access and start in staging/test environments. For production credentials, use a secure secrets manager and restrict the agent’s access to only the repositories or sites it needs. Always include manual approval gates for destructive or high-impact actions.

Can AI agents actually push code changes that work?

Yes — many simple to intermediate changes (styling, refactors, dependency updates, tests) can be successfully automated. Complex architectural changes or nuanced business logic should be reviewed by engineers. In my demos, the agent created branches, ran builds, and pushed changes ready for human review.

How do agents handle follow-ups and interaction with humans?

Agents can be scheduled to re-run tasks, check for responses (e.g., leads replying), and trigger follow-ups. They can also send notifications via Slack or email and create task items in your workflow tools so humans can step in when needed.

What are the legal/privacy concerns with automated outreach?

Automated outreach must comply with local spam and privacy laws (e.g., CAN-SPAM in the US, CASL in Canada, GDPR in the EU). Don’t scrape personal data in ways that violate terms of service or privacy regulations. Prefer consent-based approaches and consult legal counsel for large-scale campaigns.

Where can I learn more and see examples?

Try building small experiments: set up an agent to draft a blog post or run an audit on a sample GitHub repo. Document the prompts and results so you can iterate. If you’re interested in structured learning, look for courses or communities focused on AI automation and prompt engineering.

📣 Final Call to Action

If you want to build any of these automations and need starter prompts or example workflows for your specific use case (agency, ecommerce, SaaS, or dev team), leave a comment below or reach out via the contact details in my channel’s description. Start simple, validate outputs, and then scale — automation like this changes how we work, and the most successful teams will be the ones that adopt it thoughtfully.

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