Complete AI Training
Sign inGet my AI kit

Your job's AI kit

Get your AI kit

Tell us who you are and what you do. We show you your kit right away and email you the link: skills, prompts, AI agents, MCP servers and courses for your job.

500+ jobs ready, and we make a kit for any other job. No payment needed to look.

Share

AI agent for it specialists

Patch Compliance Rollout Agent

Every in-scope device patched within the target days, with exceptions explained

Patch Compliance Rollout Agent: what goes in, what the agent does and what you get

What it does

Every month vendors release security patches that must reach every device, but many teams push them and never confirm they installed. This agent reads the patch release list, rates each patch by severity and plans a rollout in rings: a pilot group first, then everyone. After each ring it checks install status in the endpoint manager and looks for new crash reports or helpdesk spikes. If a device failed to install, it retries and then records the cause, such as low disk space. If the pilot shows problems, it pauses the rollout and drafts a note for you instead of continuing. You approve moving from pilot to full rollout. Edge case: a server that cannot reboot during business hours is scheduled into the next maintenance window instead of being forced.

How it works

Follow the arrows from top to bottom. The orange dashed arrow is the loop: when a check fails, the agent goes back and tries again.

Start and resultWhat it doesA check on its own workWaits for your OKGoes back and retries
Yes, continueApprovedYes, continueNoNo 1 STARTS WHEN Monthly patch release 2 DOES Rate patches by severity and pick the rollout plan 3 USES A TOOL Deploy to the pilot ring 4 CHECKS THE RESULT Is the pilot clean with no new crashes or ticketspike? If not: pause, identify the failing patch, and draft ahold note. Back to step 2. 5 YOU APPROVE IT lead approves full rollout 6 USES A TOOL Deploy to all devices in maintenance windows 7 CHECKS THE RESULT Is every device at the target patch level? If not: retry failed installs once, then log each causeas an exception. Back to step 6. 8 RESULT Compliance report with exceptions
Read the steps as a list
  1. Monthly patch release
  2. Rate patches by severity and pick the rollout plan
  3. Deploy to the pilot ring
  4. Is the pilot clean with no new crashes or ticket spike?If not: pause, identify the failing patch, and draft a hold note. Back to step 2.
  5. IT lead approves full rolloutThe agent waits here for your OK.
  6. Deploy to all devices in maintenance windows
  7. Is every device at the target patch level?If not: retry failed installs once, then log each cause as an exception. Back to step 6.
  8. Compliance report with exceptions

How it decides

Critical patches go to the pilot within a day and to all devices after the pilot is clean for the set period. A failed install is retried once before being logged as an exception.

  • Critical patches complete within 14 days, others within 30
  • Pause rollout on any crash spike in the pilot
  • Schedule servers only within their maintenance window

Make it yours

Every agent is a starting point. You choose these settings for your own situation.

  • Pilot group members
  • Days to complete for critical and other patches
  • Maintenance windows
  • Who approves full rollout

What keeps you in control

It always asks you first

  • Moving from pilot to full rollout
  • Forcing reboots outside maintenance windows

Hard limits

  • Never forces a reboot during business hours without approval
  • Does not uninstall patches automatically

It stops when

  • Done: compliance target met and exceptions logged
  • Stop: pilot shows a serious failure

Set it up

We guide you through the set-up, step by step

Members get the full set-up guide for this agent. No technical skills needed: you copy, paste and upload.

10 minto set it up in your AI
5 AIsChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, Grok
  • One set of instructions to paste into your AI, with the clicks for ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Gemini and Grok
  • The agent then walks you through connecting your own data, one source at a time
  • A downloadable copy with the flow chart, the rules and the full guide
Get access to this agent

An example run

What happensOctober had 47 patches, 6 of them critical, at Elm Street Schools. The 60-device pilot was clean after 48 hours, and the IT manager approved full rollout. Afterward 31 of 1,200 devices failed the install check. Retries fixed 19. The other 12 had under 2 GB of free disk space, so the agent logged them for cleanup and scheduled a second pass for October 21.

More agents for it specialists