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Snag a hard-to-get reservation

“The restaurant or campsite I want is always booked.”

AI can watch for cancellations and alert you, or book within your rules. Keep checks gentle — hammering a site can get your account suspended.

Fix it yourself in 3 steps

Name the place, dates, times and party size you'd accept.
Set up a watch that checks a few times an hour at most and alerts you.
When something opens, confirm the booking yourself.

Copy this prompt

Watch [restaurant/campsite] on [booking site] for openings: [dates], [times], party of [n]. Check no more than every [15] minutes and respect the site's rules. Alert me with a link when something matches. Don't book, add a card, or create accounts — stop at the alert.

Fill in the [brackets]. Each prompt says when the AI should stop, so it doesn't wander off.

Agents people used for this: Hermes Agent, Grok Bot.

Inspired by real examples collected at agentusecases.ai.

📚 4 real stories of people doing this with AI agents

Book restaurants and snipe campsites and tickets · Grok Bot
Book tables and watch for openings or price drops · custom-built or unnamed agent
Monitor Resy and book date night tables · Hermes Agent
Monitor and book a hard-to-get restaurant table · custom-built or unnamed agent

Collected at AgentUseCases.ai.

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