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AI agent tutorials

Practical how-to guides for setting up, configuring, debugging, and running AI agents in 2026. Every guide is tested. Every guide is short. Most apply to any AI agent platform; some are Gravity-specific and marked.

9 min

How to Migrate from Zapier to an AI Agent (Without Breaking Anything)

Zapier and AI agents solve overlapping problems with different mental models. Zapier is trigger-step-action: a fixed pipeline that runs the same way every time. AI agents are outcome-driven: the agent picks the…

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How to Limit What an AI Agent Can Do (Blast Radius Control)

An agent that fails small is a fixable problem. An agent that fails catastrophically is a customer-trust event, a financial loss, or both. The difference is blast-radius control: the set of limits that bound what the…

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9 min

How to Give an AI Agent Access to Your Email Safely

Email is the master credential. Most accounts route password resets through it; many financial accounts treat email-confirmed-this as proof of identity. Granting an AI agent access to email is the most consequential…

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7 min

How to Estimate AI Agent Cost Before You Deploy

Per-task token cost is the cheapest, easiest, and most misleading number you can quote when estimating an agent's deployed cost. The number is right for a single successful invocation in development. It is wrong,…

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How to Debug an AI Agent That Did the Wrong Thing

Agent failures look like bugs but behave differently. A traditional code bug is deterministic; the same input always produces the same wrong output. An agent failure is a decision the agent made on an input where…

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