# Handing a US passport renewal to an agent: by his account it did 95 percent, and the SSN and photo steps came back to him in the browser Meta Muse · X (Twitter) · No fee, saving or income is disclosed. The post reports a renewal worked on and two tickets booked, with no amount, no processing time and no confirmed outcome. ## Business summary The author asked Muse to renew his US passport online. His words are that it did 95 percent of the work, and that the two moments needing him - entering his SSN and uploading a photo - came back to him through a browser handoff he calls smooth. In the same post he says it booked flight tickets for him and his wife end to end on Amex Travel, filling in seat selection, a loyalty number and a TSA number on its own. The post gives no fee, no processing time and no outcome, and does not say whether the passport was ever issued or delivered. ## Business value The hard part of a government form is never whether someone can fill it in. It is that one step in the middle must be you, and if that step stays buried the automation dies at the last moment and everything before it is wasted. Name the handoff point up front and the ninety percent before it can genuinely be delegated. The three things that never get delegated are the legal declaration, the submit click and the payment. ## Workflow Scope the route first: have it state which renewal path applies, what the official page lists as required, and which steps cannot legally be done by someone else. It talks, it does not act; anything it cannot confirm is marked uncertain rather than guessed. Hand over your details once, and only what this task needs: existing passport number, issue details and contact information stay in this session, with an explicit instruction never to write them to an external file or a reusable template. Extra identity data is simply not provided. Fill the official form in the order the page actually uses, field by field. When something is missing it stops and reports what is missing, where to get it, and which step to resume from. No default values, no guessing. Produce a separate handoff table for the steps only you can do: step, what to do, why it must be you, and how the browser comes back to you. In the original post those two were entering the SSN and uploading the photo; other procedures have different lists, and it should ask rather than assume. Prepare the photo to the official specification before the run: size, background and head framing come from the current official page, not from memory. An out-of-spec photo is the most common reason for a rejected application and costs a full extra cycle. You submit and you pay: it outputs a checkbox-style pre-submission review list, you confirm line by line, then you click submit and pay yourself. Keep the receipt and application number, and agree on when to check progress. ## Preparation and limitations The post gives no fee, no processing time, no date and no outcome; it does not say whether the passport was issued or delivered, which official route was used, or what the remaining 5 percent consisted of. No airline, route, fare or travel date is named for the Amex Travel booking, and the author's 95 percent is his own estimate. AgentFlow did not access any government or travel site and verified none of this. ## Starter prompt ````text You are my document renewal assistant. You handle the parts that can be handled; every step involving my identity, a legal declaration, submission or payment comes back to me. INPUT - WHAT I WILL PROVIDE 1) The task and the link to the official page (for example, a US passport renewal online). 2) The key details of my current document, supplied in this conversation only; you must never write them to an external file or a reusable template. 3) The list of steps I already know must be done by me. If I do not know it, you ask first and act only after that. EXECUTION STEPS 1. State which renewal path applies, what the official page lists as required, and which steps cannot be performed by someone else. If you are not sure, say you are not sure; do not guess. 2. Split everything into two tables: items you may fill in, and items only I may complete. For the second table give the reason and the source. 3. Fill the official form in the order the page actually uses, field by field. If something is missing, stop and report what is missing, where to get it, and which step to resume from. 4. When you reach a step that requires me, stop and hand the browser back to me, stating exactly what I need to do (for example, enter my SSN or upload a photo). 5. When everything is filled, output a pre-submission review list and wait for me to confirm each line. 6. Submission and payment are mine alone. You do not submit, tick a declaration, or pay. OUTPUT FORMAT - Renewal path and eligibility, in one sentence. - Filled items table: field / value entered / source (provided by me, read from the page, or not obtained). - Owner-only items table: step / what to do / why it must be me / how the handoff works. - Pre-submission review list as checkboxes. - An explicit list of unverified items and fields not obtained. HUMAN CONFIRMATION I alone perform and confirm these: entering identity numbers such as my SSN, uploading the photo, ticking the legal declaration, reviewing every filled field, clicking submit, and paying. You do none of them. FAILURE AND MISSING DATA If material is missing, stop and say what is missing. If the page structure is not what you expected, stop filling and report it. On a captcha, a second factor, or any identity check, hand the browser back to me immediately. Do not retry, do not work around it, and do not guess. ```` ## Costs and pitfalls The post gives no fee, no processing time, no date and no outcome; it does not say whether the passport was issued or delivered, which official route was used, or what the remaining 5 percent consisted of. No airline, route, fare or travel date is named for the Amex Travel booking, and the author's 95 percent is his own estimate. AgentFlow did not access any government or travel site and verified none of this. ## Source and attribution Cyrus (@cy_zanfar) https://x.com/cy_zanfar/status/2099684668391969009 2026-09-15 Results come from the source author. AgentFlow adds analysis and proposed workflows; outcomes are not guaranteed.