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Comet tracks a cargo ship and sets a follow-up

Hori reports that Comet found a cargo-ship name in email, checked an online vessel tracker for location and ETA, and added a Google Calendar follow-up reminder.

Source published linkedin.comAgent: Perplexity Comet
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Find the vessel name in [shipment email], check its current position and ETA through [tracker], and prepare a follow-up reminder in [calendar] for my confirmation. Include the tracking source and timestamp.

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Sidney Hori
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Hori reports that Comet found a cargo-ship name in email, checked an online vessel tracker for location and ETA, and added a Google Calendar follow-up reminder.
Human involvement
Hori supplies the shipment task. The post does not document a separate approval gate or confirm final cargo delivery; the tracking result is an estimate.

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How the agent did it

  1. Identify the cargo email containing the vessel name.
  2. Have Comet extract that identifier and open a vessel tracker.
  3. Retrieve the reported current location and estimated arrival.

Sidney Hori describes a first week using Comet for browser tasks. One completed workflow concerns a cargo shipment to Brazil: the assistant finds the ship name in an email, uses an online vessel tracker to obtain the ship's location and estimated arrival, then creates a Google Calendar reminder to follow up.

The important handoff is the identifier. Email supplies the ship name that the next website needs, and the tracking result becomes a reason to schedule a follow-up. This is an agent moving between connected information and a browser-based research tool, then acting in a calendar, rather than merely explaining how someone could track a shipment.

The account gives no carrier name, exact arrival time, calendar screenshot or final delivery confirmation. An estimated arrival is therefore the result of the lookup, not proof that the cargo arrived. Hori's other first-week examples also include browser limitations, so the post should not be read as a reliability benchmark for every connected service. The reader's concrete starting brief can identify the relevant shipment email, ask for the vessel's current tracking result and state the desired follow-up timing. Checking which vessel and calendar were selected remains necessary when repeating the workflow.

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Source: LinkedIn · Sidney Hori

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What joins the tools together?

The ship name from email is used for the online vessel lookup, whose result informs the Calendar follow-up.

Was delivery confirmed?

No. The author reports a location and estimated arrival lookup, not a completed cargo delivery.

Which carrier or tracker was used?

The public account does not name the carrier or vessel-tracking service, so the entry does not invent one.

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Remaining steps

  1. Create a Google Calendar reminder for the shipment follow-up.

About this account

Comet transfers a vessel identifier from email into web research and uses the result to create a calendar follow-up.

Firsthand account by Sidney Hori; original publication date verified against Public LinkedIn JSON-LD datePublished 2025-07-23T20:28:38.186Z. Outcomes are the author’s reports, not independently reproduced. Suggested prompt written by Agents In Use; not the author’s original prompt.

Credit: Sidney Hori

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Tools and topics

Perplexity Comet · Email · Online vessel tracker · Google Calendar

Cargo follow-up · Vessel ETA · Calendar reminder

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