How we verify recipes

Every recipe starts from something a real person published. Here's how we pick them, what we check, and what we can't check.

Where recipes come from

• Each recipe is based on one public source: a post on X or Reddit, a blog or Substack article, a GitHub repo, official docs, a video or a podcast. The source is linked at the top of the page and in the sidebar.
• Recipes without a source we can open are not listed. When we rebuilt the library on 15 Oct 2026, every recipe without a verifiable source was removed.
• The summary (“What the source did”) is ours, written from the source. Quotes are short and credited.
• If the creator published their own template, prompt, repo or tool, we link it first. If we wrote our own version of a prompt, it's labeled Ours.

Money figures

• Amounts on money recipes come from the creator's own public post, interview, podcast or video, quoted as they stated them. Each one shows where it came from and links to it.
• We can't see anyone's bank account or Stripe dashboard, and we don't claim these results are typical. Many people who try the same idea make nothing.
• We never round up, combine or estimate a figure. If a source doesn't say what something cost or earned, we leave it out.

Our notes

Each recipe has an “Our notes” box: what it takes to run, where it breaks, the point where a human has to approve, and the tools involved. Thomas writes these from the source and the recipe's own steps and failure list. They add no new numbers or results.

The verified date

• The “Verified” date on a recipe is the last day we checked that its source link still opens. We check every source on a schedule and refresh the oldest-checked recipes every week.
• When a source disappears, we don't quietly keep the recipe as if nothing happened: we flag it, look for an archived or updated version, and either update the page or note that the original is gone.
• As of 18 Oct 2026, 75 of 75 recipe sources were checked and live.

Safety rules in every recipe

Every recipe has an approval rule: where the agent must stop and ask. Sending, buying, posting and deleting always need a person. We don't publish setups that need you to paste passwords or API keys into a prompt.

Corrections

Spotted something wrong, or you're the creator and want a change? Email hello@mail.agentcookbook.dev. We fix errors and note what changed on the updates page.

Who we are

Agent Cookbook is edited by Thomas and published by Seattle Intelligence Labs, Inc. We're independent and not affiliated with any agent vendor. Sponsored items, if we ever run them, are always labeled, and sponsors can't change a recipe or its source. About us