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Apartment listing scout

Checks rental sites for new listings that fit what you want and sends you only the good matches. Helps you see places before everyone else applies.

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What it does

  • Searches your chosen sites for new listings
  • Skips anything already seen
  • Scores each listing against your must-haves
  • Sends you the top matches with links

Your approval boundaries

Approval required

These actions always wait for your yes:

  • Contacting any landlord or agent
  • Applying or paying a fee

You decide what happens next.

More about this workflow

This setup is for busy people who want their own day to run a little smoother. It takes a repeat chore off your plate and hands back something you can check quickly.

First, it searches your chosen sites for new listings. Next, it skips anything already seen. Then it scores each listing against your must-haves. Finally, it sends you the top matches with links. It works with your web search, web fetch and email, each on its own login with limited access.

You get the prep work done and waiting for you. The agent stops and asks for your yes before contacting any landlord or agent and applying or paying a fee, and says plainly if a step cannot be undone.

“built a claude code skill that knows what I'm looking for”
Iago Maciel @_iagomaciel · Mar 15, 2026
Before you startWeb search · Web fetch accessScoped permissionsClaude Code or ChatGPT agent
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Tools and access

  • Web search

    Handles the web search part of this job. Grant public search results only.

    API required: Optional. Built into most agent harnesses. A standalone search API needs its own key.

    No sign-up needed

  • Web fetch

    Handles the web fetch part of this job. Grant public pages, no logged-in sessions.

    API required: No. Built into most agent harnesses. It reads public pages with no login.

    No sign-up needed

  • Gmail

    Handles the email part of this job. Grant read-only plus compose (drafts) scopes.

    API required: Yes. Needs a Google Cloud project with an OAuth app and the Gmail API turned on. The agent signs in through OAuth with only the scopes you pick.

    Sign up: Google Workspace

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Model recommendations

Best pick

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Fast and careful with your inbox and calendar.

$2 per million input tokens, $10 per million output tokens.

Anthropic docs as of October 11, 2026

Cheaper backup

Claude Haiku 5.5

Cheapest Claude option for daily sorting.

From $0.10 per million input tokens and from $0.50 per million output tokens.

Anthropic docs as of October 11, 2026

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Build your prompt

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1Your details

Fill these in and the prompt updates as you type.

e.g. 2 bed, laundry, pets

2Your prompt

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Fill these in before you run it: [CITY AND NEIGHBORHOODS] [BUDGET AND MOVE DATE] [MUST-HAVES: e.g. 2 bed, laundry, pets] [HOW OFTEN TO CHECK] You are the Apartment listing scout agent. Checks rental sites for new listings that fit what you want and sends you only the good matches. Helps you see places before everyone else applies. Use only the details filled in above. If any [BRACKETED] item is still blank or unclear, stop and ask for it first. Do not guess. What you do on your own: - Searches your chosen sites for new listings - Skips anything already seen - Scores each listing against your must-haves - Sends you the top matches with links What you must never do without a yes from a person: - Contacting any landlord or agent - Applying or paying a fee Rules: - Before any step on the list above, stop and ask. Say in plain words what you want to do, who it affects, and whether it can be undone. - If something cannot be undone, say so first, in one short line. - Write drafts, not final actions. A person sends, pays, posts, or deletes. - Keep a short log of every action you took and every source you read. - If you are unsure, ask instead of guessing.
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Run your workflow

Connect your tools with only the access this setup needs, then follow these steps.

Steps

Do these in order. Test on old data before it touches live work.

  1. 1Set up Web search. Keep it to public search results only.
  2. 2Set up Web fetch. Keep it to public pages, no logged-in sessions.
  3. 3Connect Gmail with its own login, not yours. Grant read-only plus compose (drafts) scopes.
  4. 4Paste the prompt where your harness takes instructions. See the note under the Copy button.
  5. 5Do a dry run on old or test data first. Check every draft and every stop point by hand before you let it near live work.
  6. 6Read its log after the first real run. Only widen access once a week of runs looks clean.

Safeguards and trust score

The score describes this example setup’s access, approval boundaries, ability to undo changes, and scope.

Access18 / 30

Can draft things that send or spend, so it sits close to risky actions.

Human approval30 / 30

Waits for a yes on: contacting any landlord or agent, applying or paying a fee.

Undo and logs17 / 20

Leaves drafts you can throw away, with a record of what it made.

Scope16 / 20

Runs on its own login across 3 tools. Fewer connections means a smaller blast radius.

How to raise it

  • Access: Take away its ability to send, post or spend. Let it only write drafts, and have a person press send or pay from their own account +6
  • Scope: Cut it down from 3 connected tools to the 2 it needs most, each with its own limited login instead of your full account +2

Do all of these to reach 89, up from 81.

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