Agents @ Work

An indicative snapshot of what AI agents do across the apps they use.

Updated Sep 1, 2026

Where agents actually do their work, by category

Agents are doing more every week

Agent Actions (Weekly)

Which app categories agents are moving into?

Fastest-growing categories this week, and the biggest by volume

Fastest growing

HR & Recruiting291%
Education & LMS186%
Location & Utility Data111%
Other78%
Sales & CRM29%
Communication20%
Finance & Accounting18%

Biggest (by volume)

Communication53%
Productivity21%
Marketing13%
Sales & CRM5.3%
Project Management2.8%
Developer Tools<2%
Finance & Accounting<2%

Reads per write, by job

1 write1 read
1 write10 read
1 write100 read
Support1 : 1.8
Docs & files1 : 5.0
Code & issues1 : 6.0
Commerce & finance1 : 7.0
CRM & deals1 : 21
Tasks1 : 22
Email1 : 44
Chat1 : 65
Social1 : 85
Calendars1 : 108

What agents actually do with your data

Reads versus creates, updates and deletes - the action mix over the last 7 days

95%Read
Read95%
Create2.0%
Update2.2%
Delete0.3%

How often agents repeat work they've seen

How much of last week's work repeats something agents have handled before

68%Seen before
Seen before68%
Partially seen11%
Not seen before21%

The stacks developers build on

The frameworks developers build their agents on

1.OpenAI SDK / Agents88%
2.LangChain / LangGraph5.2%
3.Vercel AI SDK4.5%
4.Claude Agent SDK<2%
5.Anthropic SDK<2%

What new users start with

Which AI clients new users start with each week

Claude.aiChatGPT / OpenAIBuilt by developersCursorClaude CodeCodexOther AI clients

Other AI clients include n8n, Make, Goose, Raycast, Dify and Lindy.

Which apps are taking off this week

The apps agents picked up fastest this week

Fleetio
+586%
1
Wix
Websites & CMS
+432%
2
Zernio
+385%
3
4.Sharepoint Graph+334%
5.New Relic+309%
6.Ashby+291%
7.Zoho+246%
8.Google Classroom+230%
9.Zoho Books+193%
10.Cloudflare+193%
11.Close+183%
12.Help Scout+175%

What triggers an agent run

The events kicking off agent runs - a new email, a form, a webhook

SlackGmailGoogle DriveGoogle CalendarOutlookSalesforceOther

30M+ trigger events last week, around the clock.

The work never stops

Agent actions by hour of day (UTC)

Where agents hit rate limits

How often each app throttles the calls agents send it

Slack40%+
Klaviyo15–20%
Notion<15%
Lexoffice<15%
Pinterest<15%
Figma<15%
Firecrawl<15%
Slackbot<15%

How these numbers are measured

What is measured

A sample of real agent actions, observed as they run through one agent runtime (Composio). One action is one request to an app; counts are successful actions only unless noted, and the runtime's own meta-tools are excluded. The sample is a slice of live traffic, not a census of it. The "which agents people reach for" view is the exception - it counts first-time connections, not actions.

How figures are published

Shares and week-over-week moves are published as bands, never as exact figures. Each chart fits its own band edges to its own numbers, off a list of round values, because cuts that separate one distribution will flatten another. The ranking carries the order; the band carries the size. Behavioral figures, like reads per write, are exact because they name nobody.

What this does not establish

Volume is not quality: a high rank means agents were asked to work in that app, not that the app is better. A small band means a smaller share of this sample, nothing about the app's market. The leaderboard keeps apps with 2K+ successful calls over 7 days, and the snapshot is static.

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