Notion just launched Custom Agents — AI teammates that live inside your workspace and work 24/7. Morning briefings, weekly summaries, research on autopilot.
AEO SUMMARYQuick Overview & Execution Blueprint
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What Notion Just Launched
Notion launched Custom Agents as part of Notion 3.3. Think of them as smart assistants that live inside your Notion workspace. Unlike Notion’s regular AI (where you type a question and get an answer), Custom Agents work in the background without you doing anything. You set them up once, give them a trigger — a schedule, a database event, a Slack message — and they run automatically.
They can read your databases, create pages, update properties, summarize notes, pull from the web, connect to Slack, read your email, check your calendar, and more. Over 21,000 agents were created during beta. Notion itself runs 2,800 of them internally.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE STARTING
Who can use it: Custom Agents are available on Notion Business and Enterprise plans (not Free or Plus). If you’re on a free plan, you can start a Business trial to test them. Pricing: Completely free to create and run until May 3, 2026. After that, agents run on Notion Credits ($10 per 1,000 credits — roughly 45–90 agent runs). Where: You need to create agents on desktop or web (not mobile). AI model: You can choose Auto (recommended), Claude Sonnet, Claude Opus, or GPT-5.2.
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How to Create Your First Agent — Step by Step
STEP 1Open The Agents Section
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You are my Morning Briefing agent. Every time you run, you pull together everything I need to know to start my day. Check my tasks database, my calendar, and my recent notes — then create a new page in my[Daily Briefings database name]with today’s date as the title.Include these sections:TODAY’S PRIORITIES- Check my[Tasks/Projects database name]for anything due today or overdue
- Sort by priority (urgent first, then high, then medium)
- For each task: title, project it belongs to, due date, current status
- If anything is overdue, flag it at the top with how many days late it isCALENDAR OVERVIEW- Check my calendar for today’s meetings and events
- For each meeting: time, title, who’s attending, and any linked Notion pages for prep
- Flag any back-to-back meetings with no break
- Flag any meeting in the next 2 hours that has no agenda or prep docYESTERDAY’S UNFINISHED BUSINESS- Check for tasks that were due yesterday but not marked complete
- Check for any comments or mentions I haven’t responded to
- Check for pages updated yesterday that I created or ownTHIS WEEK AT A GLANCE- How many tasks are due this week total
- How many are already complete vs. remaining
- Any deadlines coming up in the next 3 daysONE THING TO FOCUS ON- Based on everything above, suggest the single most important thing I should work on first today and why
Format it clean and scannable. Bullet points, bold headers, no essays. I’m reading this with my coffee — make it fast.
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