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Notes on building agents as a beginner, and on the platform limits worth knowing before you start.
Build a working AI agent in 30 minutes (no code)
The whole shape of a first build in one page — what each block is for, where beginners stall, and the checklist to work through.
Zapier AI Agents for beginners: your first agent
Agents and Zaps are different products on different meters. Which one a first agent needs, and what free actually covers.
A research-and-summary agent you can run today
One useful agent, described precisely enough to build: what to tell it, what to leave out, and what shape to demand back.
Chatbot vs AI agent: what you can ship in 30 minutes
The difference is whether it can reach outside itself. That one distinction decides what you can build and what it costs to run.
No coding skills? Ship your first AI agent this week
You do not need to code. Here is what you do need, and the four things that genuinely stop people finishing.
What actually eats the time in a first agent build
Not the typing. The re-runs. Where the time actually goes, and what we will publish once we have timed it properly.
What Zapier Agents' free tier actually gives you
What the free plan actually allows: what counts as an activity, why test runs cost you, and when the allowance resets. Checked against Zapier's own documentation.
Your Zapier agent paused and asked a question
It looks like a broken build. It isn't — it's a per-run limit doing exactly what it's designed to do.