What Sweeps Agent does

Sweeps Agent looks for sweepstakes so you don’t have to. Each night it reads the big sweepstakes listing sites, opens each contest’s Official Rules, and checks the things that decide whether a contest is worth entering: whether California residents can enter, how often you can enter, when it ends, how much the prizes are worth, and whether you can enter by mail. Each morning it emails you the best of them.

It never enters a contest for you. Almost every set of Official Rules disqualifies entries made by a program, and sponsors check for it. So the entering stays with you, in your own web browser. Sweeps Agent only does the finding, the reading and the ranking.

Where things stand

Paused since 30 October 2026, until further notice. Everything is switched off: no listing checks, no 6 am email, no prize-deadline reminders, and the queue page shows a “Sweeps Agent is paused” notice instead of your list. Your contests, entries and skips are saved. Ask Claude to resume it.

As of 14 October 2026:

• The queue page is running, and the 6 am email goes out every morning. Its address is the button on Sweeps Agent’s card on this shelf.
• It reads two listing sites: The Freebie Guy and Online Sweepstakes. More are added one at a time.
• Most contests from Online Sweepstakes say “rules not checked”. That site doesn’t link to the Official Rules, and its entry links turn away automatic readers, so Sweeps Agent can’t read the rules for you. Read them on the entry page before entering. For these contests, the Enter with Claude prompt asks Claude to find the rules and tell you how often you can enter, then fill the form.
• Trust the Official Rules over the email. Its reading of each contest’s rules is still being checked against the rules themselves.

What happens each day

All times are Pacific. From November to March each one happens an hour earlier.

Time	What happens	Your part
5:00 am	It reads the listing sites and the rules of anything new	Nothing
6:00 am	The morning email arrives: the contests you can enter today (up to 25)	Read it
Any time	You enter the ones you want, then mark each one entered	About 15 minutes
10:00 am	If a prize you won must be claimed within 3 days, a reminder email arrives	Reply to the sponsor in time
1:00 pm	It checks the listing sites again. New contests appear on the queue page, not in an email	Nothing

What it keeps track of for you

• Which contests you’ve entered, and when. It counts the day the way the contest does, which is usually Eastern time, not California time. Entering at 11 pm and again at 8 am can be two entries on the same Eastern day, and that can void both.
• What each contest allows. Once a day, once a week, once ever, or a total number of entries. If entering again would break that, the Entered button turns grey and says why.
• Prizes you’ve won and their deadlines, so a claim form never runs out of time.