What Do I Read in the 15-Minute Review of My AI Agent?
My review is a 15 minute meeting on my calendar. A reading order for it, built from what I showed in the session, and three questions to ask as you read.
Read four things in this order: the instructions, each skill, the connectors list and the tool settings under each connector. Ask three plain questions as you go: what changed since last time, what can it still read, and what can it send.
I keep a 15 minute meeting on my calendar that comes around every three weeks, and I use it to read my AI agent's instructions (24:51). How often to hold it is on its own page.
Why is there something to read at all?
Because the instructions change without me. I leave the setting on that lets my AI agent learn from how I work with it in the chat:
From the recording, 24:42. Blue button does is it allows your agent to learn how you're interacting with it and it automates updates.
That's why the meeting exists. It gives you the first of three questions to ask as you read: what changed since last time.
What do I read first?
The instructions. When I told the AI agent to update them, I named what I found inside: operating rules, core jobs and a rhythm (42:46).
Read those three sections top to bottom. If you have a copy from your last review, put the two side by side. The recording doesn't show the text under the three labels, so I can only tell you where to look. What Are AI Operating Rules? covers the first label.
What do I read second?
Each skill. I showed where to double-click into them to read them (42:34), and I said the easiest way to edit both skills and instructions is inside the chat (43:03). Open each skill, read the steps in order, and change a line by telling the AI agent what to change.
What do I read third?
The connectors list. I said connectors are where I give access to calendar, email and similar tools, and I said this:
From the recording, 26:07. Connectors are what make agents work.
Read the list and ask the second question: what can it still read. Anything you no longer use is a candidate to remove, and at 42:22 I said I would show how to delete access to a connector and how to delete the AI agent. I removed Gmail's access at 45:04.
What do I read last?
The tool settings under each connector. In the session I clicked Gmail under connectors (43:33), and a new screen opened. I said it gives me extra clarity and control over what my AI agent does (43:44).
The steps, as shown October 7, 2026:
- 01
Select a connector in the list. I selected Gmail.
- 02
Open tool management. Under it I selected read only tools, where I said there are six options (43:59 to 44:05).
- 03
Open the write and delete tools beneath it. This is where I can allow or restrict sending emails, updating, creating drafts and forwarding emails (44:14 to 44:27).
That screen answers the third question: what can it send. The recording shows Gmail only, so check each connector you have.
What are the three questions, and where do I look?
| Question | Where you look | What I said | | --- | --- | --- | | What changed since last time? | The instructions and each skill | The AI agent learns from the chat and automates updates (24:26 to 24:49) | | What can it still read? | The connectors list | Connectors give access to calendar, email and other tools (25:59) | | What can it send? | Write and delete tools under each connector | I can allow or restrict sending, updating, creating drafts and forwarding (44:19) |
What goes in the calendar reminder?
I said to put a reminder on your calendar at a frequent cadence to go in and read the instructions if the AI agent can update itself (43:10). Example, replace with yours: "Review my AI agent. Read the instructions. Open each skill. Check the connectors. Check the tool settings under each connector."
What goes wrong
If the AI agent edits its own instructions and nobody reads them, you lose track of what it's doing. That's the one failure I named, and it's the reason for the review.
From the recording, 25:36. So please put a calendar reminder, uh, at some frequency for you to come back and check that.
What the recording doesn't show: the text of any skill or instruction, or the names of the six read only options.
Where this comes from
This article grows from the session I taught live with Women Applying AI on October 7, 2026. The quoted passages are my own words, taken verbatim from the recording. The steps, tables and checklists around them were drafted by my team's AI agents from those words and my published pages, and checked against the recording before publishing.
Build Your First AI Agent in One Hour: the full session with the clips, the prompts and the transcript.
Related reading: How Often Should You Review an AI Agent's Instructions?, What Does Edit Own Instructions Mean for an AI Agent?, What Are AI Operating Rules?.
Frequently asked questions
What do I read first in the review?
The instructions. Read the three sections I named: operating rules, core jobs and a rhythm.
How long is my review?
I keep mine at 15 minutes, on my calendar every three weeks.
Where do I change what I find?
In the chat. I said it is the easiest way to edit both skills and instructions.
Where do I see what the AI agent can send?
Open a connector, then tool management, then the write and delete tools. I opened Gmail in the session.
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