Your First Task: One Sentence, Then Autonomous Delivery

One sentence is enough to start

WorkBuddy opens differently from other AI tools: there are no prompt templates to memorize — just say clearly what you need done. Something like "turn this meeting recording into minutes, separate the action items and their owners, and save it as a Word file". Once you hit send you don't have to watch it; it keeps going on its own.

How a task gets broken down

After receiving the instruction, it splits the goal into a number of steps and executes them one by one. Each completed step adds a card to the conversation: open it to see which file it read, what operation it performed, and what intermediate result came out. You can mark a card "done" yourself, which means you're signing off on the process rather than just waiting for the final sentence. If you spot a wrong direction halfway through, interrupt at any time and add a constraint — it adjusts using the context it already has.

The results panel: how to review the output

Deliverables land in the results panel, usually as files you can open directly. Review three things: whether the content is right (figures, conclusions, definitions), whether the format is usable as-is (page count, heading hierarchy, table styling), and whether sources can be traced (are key figures attributed). The third is the easiest to skip, and the most likely to cause trouble when you present.

Following up and iterating

Being unhappy with the first draft is normal — there's no need to start a new task. Adding requirements in the same conversation is the least effort: "expand part two into three paragraphs", "reformat the table to summarize by quarter", "make the tone more formal". The context is still there, so it's much faster than restating everything. Only when the change is big enough to be a different subject should you create a new task, to keep old material from skewing the judgment.

The four elements of a good instruction

• Goal: the deliverable, stated in one line — a three-page weekly report, or a table summarized by region.
• Scope: which materials to use. Use @ to reference specific files or folders; don't say "the stuff on my computer".
• Format: the shape and structure of the deliverable — two pages in Word, four sections, no more than 200 words per section.
• Constraints: definitions and no-go zones — use only the data I give you, no unverified conclusions, amounts all in units of ten thousand yuan.

Instructions with all four elements are noticeably more likely to come out right the first time.

New tasks and context management

Try to keep one task to one job. Split work on unrelated topics into separate tasks for cleaner context; keep multiple rounds of revision on the same job in the original task. The sidebar can hold several tasks running in parallel — generating a weekly report while organizing data, for example — without interfering with each other or worrying about mixing things up.

The mistakes beginners make most

• Leaving out all the background and making it guess your business.
• Giving a goal but no format, then getting back a pile of text you can't use directly.
• Never checking the intermediate steps, and only discovering at the end that the definitions were wrong from the start.

Do the opposite of these three and things generally go smoothly. To fill in the concepts first, read the overview of Tencent WorkBuddy; once the flow is familiar, come back to hands-on tutorials and pick a vertical scenario.