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title: "Everyday errands, handed to an agent"
description: "The errands people actually want delegated, what each one demands of an agent, and what the exam checks when a product is made to try."
url: https://personalagentbench.com/tasks/
last_updated: 2026-10-09
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# Everyday errands, handed to an agent

One page per errand: what the job really involves, where agents break, and what the exam checks. Not a feature list.

- [**Booking a table**And the errand that quietly races other people · AI restaurant reservation tools today: what Google's AI Mode does, where a personal agent goes further, and what our exam measures when one books a table.](https://personalagentbench.com/tasks/book-a-table/)
- [**Getting a subscription cancelled**And what that asks of an agent · An app to cancel subscriptions has to get past a flow built to keep you paying. What that errand asks of a personal agent, and what our exam measures.](https://personalagentbench.com/tasks/cancel-a-subscription/)
- [**Disputing a charge**And the decision an agent should not make for you · How to dispute a charge: report fraud to your card issuer, take a bad purchase to the merchant, the US deadlines, and what changes when an AI agent does it.](https://personalagentbench.com/tasks/dispute-a-charge/)
- [**Rearranging a family week**And who has to be told · What an AI family assistant like Cozi or Ohai does today, what a personal agent claims beyond it, and how our exam tests one that messages other parents.](https://personalagentbench.com/tasks/family-scheduling/)
- [**Claiming for a delayed flight**And the offer an agent should bring back to you · Flight delay compensation: what US, EU and Canadian rules pay, why a voucher can cost you the refund, and what an AI agent must not accept for you.](https://personalagentbench.com/tasks/flight-delay-compensation/)
- [**Watching something live**And knowing when not to tell you · Notification overload and notification fatigue: what focus modes already do, where they stop, and how our exam tests an agent that decides what reaches you.](https://personalagentbench.com/tasks/live-alerts/)
- [**Organising work files**And the errand where finished is hardest to define · What an AI file organizer like AI File Sorter or Sparkle does, what a personal agent claims beyond it, and how our exam checks a folder an agent tidied.](https://personalagentbench.com/tasks/work-files/)

Individual attempts at these errands, with every measurement listed separately, are on [the recorded runs page](https://personalagentbench.com/runs/). How the exam turns an errand into a task is on [how the exam works](https://personalagentbench.com/how-the-exam-works/).

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Published by Personal Agent Bench (https://personalagentbench.com), run by the Zentor team. Zentor builds agent software of its own, so its products are not on the scorecard and will not be added.