> I’ve heard executive leaders tout that “people use agents to buy things for them” but I haven’t actually seen that.

My wife really dislikes building up the shopping cart for our weekly grocery delivery, so I built an agent... thing with earendil's npm libs. It takes the menu my wife has decided on, confers with her about the ingredients (if it hasn't seen a recipe before), and then uses Chrome's devtools protocol to head to Walmart and add everything to the shopping cart.

It works fairly well and uses the local models I have running on my Mac Studio.

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arosier10 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Does walmart keep prompting you with "Press and hold" anti bot requests? I have a similar project and keep getting these on walmart.

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diarrhea 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> uses the local models

That is fantastic. Last I checked models capable of running on commodity (anything below a dedicated GPU rack) hardware were very lackluster.

	▲	nozzlegear an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, they're excellent. I use a small Qwen3-4B-Instruct as the "actor" agent which goes out to the website, searches for a batch of items, decides which best matches the criteria, and puts them in the cart. Then I have Qwen3.6-35B-A3B as the "orchestrator" agent (it's just what I use for my daily driver), it's responsible for chatting with my wife about the menu, recipes and ingredients, and tells the smaller agent what to put in the cart with our brand preferences, dietary restrictions, etc. in mind. I could probably drop the smaller Qwen at this point, but when I was first building this I was having an issue with search results and cart data filling up the main agent's context.