How we test, and the editorial rules

AgentShed is published by Milo Cosemans in the UK. It is a library of setups for sole traders, freelancers, and micro-businesses who want to hand a repetitive chore to an agentic tool and keep the judgement. The audience is global. Every playbook has a UK notes box because prices, privacy, and tax questions land differently if you are the reader in Britain.

What a test is

A test is a person following the steps on a real account, or on a sandbox that behaves like one, and writing down what matched the page and what did not. The date goes in the playbook's test log. The changelog reads those lines so there is not a second, drift-prone diary.

Version 1 has not had that test. Each log says Pending first test. The steps were compiled from vendor documentation and from how the products are known to work. Screen labels move. If a step does not match what you see, the contact form is the correction, and the log should stay pending until someone re-runs it.

We do not publish time-saved figures, conversion lifts, or reliability percentages. Those would be inventions until they are measured and the method is on the page.

What a playbook is allowed to recommend

One task, one primary tool, a cost in US dollars and a planning figure in pounds, the steps, the failures, and the sources. GBP uses a stated planning rate, dated on the page, and is not a quote. VAT is explained as a checkout question, not folded into a false precision.

If a simpler feature inside software you already pay for does the job, the playbook says so before it tells you to open a new account.

Sponsors

Companies that sell agentic tools may eventually sponsor the site. That is a planned way to pay for the work, along with clearly marked affiliate links and, later, display advertising. A sponsor slot component exists and is off. It renders only when sponsorship is switched on and a sponsor is listed. The slot is labelled Sponsor. A sponsor does not get to edit a verdict, a test log, or a direct answer. If that rule is broken, the page is wrong and should be corrected in public.

Affiliate links

Some vendor links may later earn a commission. They will use rel="sponsored" and a sentence next to the link will say so. A normal link to a documentation page is not dressed up as an affiliate link, and a made-up tracking code is not used to look more commercial than the site is. Version 1 has no affiliate links. The disclosure on each playbook says that.

Corrections

Prices and button names go stale. If you are the vendor and a description of your product is wrong, write with the URL of the page and the sentence. The same form is open to readers. Corrections that check out get a test-log line or an updated step, not a silent rewrite with no date.

What this is not

Not legal advice, not tax advice, and not an instruction to connect an agent to a bank or to HMRC. The UK notes point at GOV.UK and the ICO so you can read the source. Making Tax Digital, PECR, and VAT reverse charge are named only where they change the setup. Your accountant or the relevant official guidance outranks a playbook.