AI use cases

551 ways people actually use AI, compiled from the videos in this library. Each names the job and why it is worth doing, and links to the moment in the source video.

Trace an agent request across the full multi-agent and tool workflow and track experiments.

IBM Technology
Provide encrypted, mutually authenticated networking between agents and tools.

IBM Technology
Route and protect calls to tools used by agents.

IBM Technology
Validate inbound tokens before requests reach agent code.

IBM Technology
Authorize multi-agent requests using the complete delegation chain so an unintended subagent cannot use a propagated credential to access protected data.

IBM Technology
Allow an agent to request limited access tokens for specific tools.

IBM Technology
Give each deployed agent a cryptographic workload identity that can be verified without relying on reusable secrets.

IBM Technology
Deploy an existing AI agent and add infrastructure-level security without rebuilding it in a particular agent framework.

IBM Technology
Coordinate multiple intelligent software components or agents that work with humans or with one another.

IBM Technology
Use a coding agent to complete a task by discovering an available SSH route to remote nodes and running work there.

IBM Technology
Import and run existing agents on an enterprise orchestration platform, including agents developed in LangGraph or hosted elsewhere.

IBM Technology
Collect execution telemetry from agents and use it to build evaluation harnesses.

IBM Technology
Evaluate probabilistic agents and use their execution data to improve and debug them.

IBM Technology
Manage enterprise AI agents by defining their identities, enforcing policies, observing behavior, managing their life cycles, and controlling the execution layer for LLM calls, tool calls, results, and structured output.

IBM Technology
Chain tools together in loops and work with other AI agents without human operators.

IBM Technology
Enable a coding agent to work with project knowledge, reusable skills, current context, and experience from earlier sessions.

IBM Technology
Retain useful experience from past interactions and decisions so an agent can improve across sessions.

IBM Technology
Give a coding agent persistent project knowledge, including architecture, coding conventions, build commands, frameworks, and prohibited practices.

IBM Technology
Maintain the agent's current conversation, system instructions, and loaded files or data while it works on a task.

IBM Technology
Trace an agent's decisions and tool calls to investigate an incorrect refund.

IBM Technology
Maintain conversational and episodic context for an agent.

IBM Technology
Handle a live customer-service chat while another agent summarizes prior tickets.

IBM Technology
Select which tools an AI agent should receive in its context window on each turn.

ManuAGI - AutoGPT Tutorials
Continuously improve models using traces collected from agent runs.

ManuAGI - AutoGPT Tutorials
Let AI agents drive native desktop applications.

ManuAGI - AutoGPT Tutorials
Collaborate with AI agents through a shared markdown and HTML notes folder.

ManuAGI - AutoGPT Tutorials
Improve the front-end design produced by AI coding agents.

ManuAGI - AutoGPT Tutorials
Build AI agents and retrieval-augmented generation applications from ready-to-run templates.

ManuAGI - AutoGPT Tutorials
Turn a technical book, folder, or document set into an on-demand skill that an AI agent can query.

ManuAGI - AutoGPT Tutorials
Share reusable AI workflows, skills, MCPs, and connected services across agents, teammates, and machines.

ManuAGI - AutoGPT Tutorials
Transform raw information into usable model context before giving it to an LLM or agent.

IBM Technology
Structure and optimize the information passed to an LLM or AI agent so it produces more accurate and relevant outputs.

IBM Technology
Coordinate a team's work through shared agent sessions.

Y Combinator
Run an AI agent locally while keeping the user's data on the device.

Y Combinator
Operate Mac software with an AI agent on a separate computer so the agent can click and control the screen without fighting the user for the cursor.

Y Combinator
Use an AI agent to test typical user-facing bugs across code, browser, and computer interactions.

Y Combinator
Keep an agent operating inside a designated workspace without following symlinks or corrupting configuration files.

Y Combinator
Let an AI agent answer messages and interact with many users through a public Discord server.

Y Combinator
Generate a WhatsApp relay that lets you send prompts from a Mac to WhatsApp and receive the agent's replies on a phone.

Y Combinator
Monitor an AI agent's network traffic and activity to make its operation safer.

a16z
Load substantially more context into an agent's requests for complex founder or CEO work.

a16z
Conduct the personal deep research needed to produce articles for an agentic newsroom.

a16z
Extract an agentic retrieval component from an existing repository and reuse it for personal deep research.

a16z
Share files, artifacts, notes, dependencies, and long-term context among multiple AI agents running in separate sandboxes.

ManuAGI - AutoGPT Tutorials
Use coding agents from an iPhone or Android phone to edit, test, and ship changes from a cloud shell.

ManuAGI - AutoGPT Tutorials
Operate websites with AI agents using managed browsers, credentials, identities, sessions, and web-automation integrations.

ManuAGI - AutoGPT Tutorials
Train a specialized small model for a coding-agent task using supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning.

ManuAGI - AutoGPT Tutorials
Run coding agents inside an application and return reviewable code, files, documents, images, and tool-action confirmations without exposing a terminal to end users.

ManuAGI - AutoGPT Tutorials
Approve or deny coding-agent permission requests from a phone while away from the computer.

ManuAGI - AutoGPT Tutorials
Turn PDFs, databases, spreadsheets, documents, and images into a trusted, queryable knowledge graph for AI questions, dashboards, apps, and governed agent workflows.

ManuAGI - AutoGPT Tutorials
Refine one niche's fragmented, changing information into structured intelligence that agents can use for business decisions.

Greg Isenberg
Let an AI agent obtain a paid resource through an automated request, payment, and retry flow.

Greg Isenberg
Act as a customizable agent that helps run a person's or company's business.

Riley Brown
Serve as Vercel's internal company agent for employee questions, customer and product analysis, content creation, support, documentation, and actions across company systems.

Riley Brown
Route different agent tasks to models based on the required speed, accuracy, and price-performance tradeoff.

Riley Brown
Trigger an agent when business events occur in external systems, such as failed payments or incoming email.

Riley Brown
Monitor social media automatically and prepare useful content or reports without a user actively prompting the agent.

Riley Brown
Improve an agent's content-writing skill based on feedback about poor or overly verbose output.

Riley Brown
Build a company-specific agent with its own operating principles, context, tools, communication channels, and permissions.

Riley Brown
Create marketing content, product announcements, and engineering blog posts by coordinating marketers and engineers through an internal agent.

Riley Brown