Transcript cleanup to customer style rules
A transcription business uses LLM agents to proofread human-edited transcripts and apply each customer's formatting rules.
- Agent or tool
- Custom agent
- Topic
- Media & Content
- Reported on
- Hacker News
- Added
- 2026-10-15
Why it matters
Making content involves a lot of production steps around the creative part. Here an agent takes on some of those steps so the person can focus on the idea. It is one of 70 sightings filed under Media & Content on Agent Sightings (number 54 by interest), and one of 266 involving Custom agent.
How you could try it
Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into your own agent or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.
Proofread this transcript and apply these style rules: <rules>. Don't change wording beyond fixing errors; list every change you made.
Tip: Start small: run it once on a low-stakes example, read what the agent did, and only then let it run on real work.
Source
Read the original first-hand account on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42431361. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.
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