Use Comet to assemble a grocery cart
Sreenivas Makam tested Comet on practical browser tasks during two weeks of use on his MacBook.
sreeninet.wordpress.com
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Find [grocery list with quantities] on [store]. Apply [brand or price preferences], add matches to the cart and list substitutions. Stop at the cart so I can inspect items before checkout.
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- Sreenivas Makam
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- Reported result
- Makam reports Comet added the specified groceries to a Bigbasket cart, but product choices were arbitrary without explicit selection preferences.
- Human involvement
- No checkout approval or payment is described.
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How the agent did it
- Supply groceries with quantities.
- Find matching Bigbasket products.
- Inspect selections in the cart.
Sreenivas Makam tested Comet on practical browser tasks during two weeks of use on his MacBook. One shopping request asked it to find a specific grocery list on Bigbasket: toor dal, guava juice, almonds, walnuts, cilantro and carrots, with quantities attached to the items.
Makam reports that Comet found the products and added them to the cart. He also noticed a selection problem: when several choices were available, it picked one without a useful preference unless the request specified a rule such as choosing the cheapest option. The cart-building result is therefore tied to both the item list and how precisely preferences are stated.
His wider account includes browser-operated Sheets and YouTube tasks and describes a mixed migration from Chrome. Some settings and extensions transferred, while passwords, sessions and profiles did not. This shopping example documents adding products to an existing site's basket, not a completed purchase or payment. The post does not describe checkout authorization. It preserves a concrete limitation a shopper can inspect before accepting the selected products.
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Source: sreeninet.wordpress.com · Sreenivas Makam
Frequently asked questions
Which shop was used here?
The grocery request used Bigbasket.
What happened to the products?
Comet added matching items to the cart.
What selection issue appeared?
Multiple options needed a preference such as cheapest.
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About this account
Comet searched products and added matches to a cart.
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Credit: Sreenivas Makam
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Tools and topics
Perplexity Comet · Bigbasket
Groceries · Bigbasket · Shopping cart
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