When you're new to WorkBuddy, don't treat it as a regular chat box and ask "Help me take a look." A more reliable approach is to directly state what needs to be delivered: reports, forms, PPT outlines, public account drafts, meeting minutes, project documents, or a set of to-do lists. Its selling point is AI Agent work, not just answering questions.
Tencent's official product page positions WorkBuddy as an AI Agent office tool launched by Tencent Cloud Code Assistant, emphasizing autonomous planning and delivery of multimodal complex task results, and supporting multiple Agents working in parallel. For ordinary users, this can be translated as: if you give it goals, information, and boundaries, it should help you break down steps and produce results, not just chat about your ideas.
Don't go for full automation just because it's your first time
It is better to start with a small task, such as "organizing this event material into an 800-character initial draft for a public account," or "creating a sales board structure based on this Excel." First, let WorkBuddy provide a task plan, then let it execute it. This way, you can detect in advance whether it misunderstands objects, calibers, formats, or data ranges.
If you say "help me make a complete plan" from the start, it may fill in many assumptions, which may look complete but may not align with your real business. The most common pitfall for beginners is leaving the background, omission conditions, and acceptance criteria to the AI to guess.
A useful question format
You can write it as "Objective + Material + Output Format + Restrictions + Checkpoints." For example: I want to generate a client visit summary; The materials include conference recordings and transcripts of the client's official website; The output consists of three paragraphs: key points, risks, and next steps follow-up; Don't fabricate customer promises; Let me confirm the plan first.
The advantage of this format is that WorkBuddy makes it easier to break tasks into executable steps and to bundle results into files or drafts you can use directly. It's suitable for handling office tasks, but not for making "judgments out of thin air" when you have insufficient materials.
When does it prove it's useless?
If it only gives advice and doesn't deliver documents; Repeatedly asking for basic information; Facts you haven't given in the output appear; Or mixing multiple tasks together means the task descriptions are not clear enough. First, narrow the scope so it only completes one stage, for example, only data organization, table size checks, or outlines, without requiring research, analysis, layout, and publication all at once.
To determine if WorkBuddy is right for you, don't judge by its beautiful answers—see if it can take real office tasks to the next level. Beginners calibrate with small tasks first, then gradually hand over more complex agent workflows, which greatly increases the success rate.
