How to Build Your Own AI Agent Without a New Subscription

Everyone's talking about AI agents, but the conversation often leads to subscribing to yet another tool.

I was curious about the hype but wasn't keen on another subscription. I wanted to see if I could achieve similar results with the AI tools I already pay for.

I dug deeper by observing projects on GitHub that improve AI-generated code. Developers weren't using single prompts to get better results; they were guiding the AI through a series of sequential steps. Simply put, an "agent" is just a well-designed workflow.

As an experiment, I built a simple AI workflow to improve my own writing. After a week of trials, I landed on this 6-step process:

• Style Analyzer: Analyzes my past writing to learn my voice.
• The Strategist: Defines the goal and gathers context for new content.
• The Outliner: Generates a clear outline for the content.
• The Creator: Generates the first draft based on the strategy.
• The Critic: Reviews the output against a quality checklist.
• The Polisher: Takes feedback and makes changes to create the final draft.

To be clear, the final draft from the AI doesn't sound exactly like me and requires further refinement on my end.

This process was designed to get me 80% of the way there, fast but in a systematic process.

This is still a work in progress, and I'm sharing the full workflow prompt I developed. I'm looking for feedback on how it works for you and what could be improved.

You can even give this a try in Notion if you are interested

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