Library · 39 use cases · 9 categories
What people actually do with AI agents
Real examples from public posts and articles. Each one is summarized in our words, with the tool used, a link to the source and a starter prompt you can copy.
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- Ops
Automate a hiring pipeline with n8n
An automation builder set up an n8n hiring flow that confirms each application right away and sorts candidates by experience. HR gets a daily digest, and applicants can fix a bad phone number by replying to the email, which updates the sheet.
n8n - Personal Finance
Turn bank and card statements into a categorized P&L
A small business owner uploaded bank and card statements to Claude and asked it to act like an accountant. Within minutes they had a profit-and-loss view with every charge categorized, plus a warning that one autopay was bigger than expected.
Claude - Personal Finance
Let Claude process your mail and pay routine bills
This user routes his paper mail through a virtual mailbox and has Claude go through it. Claude pays routine bills and only brings him in when a bill is more than 20% off its usual amount.
Claude - Support
Answer support emails from a knowledge base with Gmail, an agent and Pinecone
As part of his n8n learning, this builder connected Gmail to an AI agent backed by a Pinecone vector store. Incoming support emails get answered from the indexed knowledge base.
n8n + AI agent + Pinecone - Research
Run a local research loop across Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode
This engineer highlights OpenResearch CLI, which runs an automated research loop on your own machine. It uses several coding agents in parallel worktrees to handle literature review and experiment analysis, and the data never leaves the machine.
OpenResearch CLI (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode) - Content
Run a YouTube idea-to-script pipeline with Claude Code skills
Three days after starting with Claude Code, this creator had it running most of his content system. He made one skill each for idea generation, titles, scriptwriting and competitor research, all fed by YouTube data stored on his machine.
Claude Code skills - Support
Answer e-commerce support questions with an n8n agent
A builder made an n8n agent that handles customer support for an online store. Rather than following a fixed script, it reasons over current store information so its answers are not out of date.
n8n AI agent - Sales
Build a cold email campaign dashboard with Claude Code and n8n
Tracking several cold email campaigns in Excel became more work than the outreach itself for this user. He built his own reporting and lead-management dashboard with Claude Code, n8n and Supabase.
Claude Code + n8n + Supabase - Support
Book appointments through a support chat agent in n8n
On day 21 of an automation challenge, this builder made a customer-support chat agent in n8n. It connects OpenAI, memory, code steps, Google Calendar and Google Sheets to handle customer conversations and bookings.
n8n + OpenAI - Personal Life
Get a second opinion on an MRI report with Claude Code
Antoine gave Claude Code the files from a shoulder MRI to get a second read on his diagnosis. He describes it as a fascinating preview but says he can't fully trust the results yet, so it supplements his doctor rather than replacing one.
Claude Code (Opus) - Marketing
Let an AI agent run a small SEO site and log its own bugs
The owner of tokenmaxxing.com let an agent handle daily data updates, content and deploys for an SEO site. He published the small traffic numbers along with the bugs the agent shipped, and set a kill-switch date for the experiment.
AI agent (autonomous site operator) - Personal Life
Get a weekday morning briefing from your calendar, email and news
This user connected Claude Code to Google Calendar, Gmail, Exa search and Slack, then wrote a single scheduled prompt. He says that since then he hasn't opened his calendar or news feeds directly, because the briefing covers them.
Claude Code - Ops
Auto-build a Monday business dashboard from Xero, inbox and calendar
A consultant used to spend Monday mornings gathering business numbers by hand. In one afternoon he built a local HTML dashboard with Claude that pulls from Xero, his inbox, his calendar and a client tracker.
Claude - Research
Research 25 apps' onboarding flows before designing your own
Before designing his app's onboarding, this founder had Claude Code use Firecrawl to study 25 apps, both competitors and products known for good onboarding. Claude wrote up a report summarizing what each one did.
Claude Code + Firecrawl - Sales
Run an entire B2B outbound motion from one brief with Claude Code
A growth operator released a free Claude Code plugin with 40 outreach skills. You answer eight onboarding questions about your company and ideal customer, and Claude assembles a full outbound brief that later steps build on.
Claude Code plugin (40 skills) - Marketing
Generate and publish Meta image and video ads from Claude Code
This creator set up Claude Code to cover the whole Meta ads loop. It researches competitors, generates image and video ads, and pushes the finished creatives straight into Meta Ads Manager.
Claude Code - Personal Finance
Prepare personal tax return paperwork with Claude Code
This founder used Claude Code to put together all of his tax returns, including a 2023 amendment he says his CPA missed. He packaged the work into tax agents that fill out the forms.
Claude Code - Sales
Replace daily manual lead gen with an autonomous research-and-email agent
An automation builder replaced 3-4 hours of daily prospecting with an agent. It finds leads, verifies their emails and gathers company context, then writes personalized email sequences and LinkedIn DMs into Airtable.
AI agent + Airtable - Support
Prototype a multi-agent customer support system in 30 minutes
A developer paired Google's Agents CLI with Claude Code to build a support system in under 30 minutes. It splits the work between concierge, logistics, stylist and resolver agents, and covers code, tests, evals and deployment.
Google Agents CLI + Claude Code - Personal Life
Ask Alexa for your Google Calendar with a skill built by Claude Code
Tired of unlocking her phone every morning to check her calendar, this developer used Claude Code to build a custom Alexa skill. Now Alexa reads her Google Calendar aloud while she makes tea.
Claude Code - Personal Life
Sort hundreds of saved Instagram Reels into a Japan trip plan
This user had about 400 saved Reels about Japan and no realistic way to go through them. He had Claude Code drive Chrome through an MCP connection, open Instagram, and work through the saved posts for trip planning.
Claude Code + Chrome MCP - Marketing
Audit a site for AI-search readiness with a Claude Code skill
A developer wrote a Claude Code skill that audits a website for generative-engine optimization. It checks AI crawler access, platform readiness and technical SEO, then fixes the files it can, and he posted results a month after deploying it.
Claude Code skill - Dev
Build an app with parallel coding agents and dedicated reviewers
A developer built a book inventory app with Claude Code and Codex. He says the interesting part was the pipeline around the agents: TDD, Playwright end-to-end tests, parallel agents, dedicated reviewer agents and a final manual review.
Claude Code + Codex + OpenSpec + beads - Ops
Generate expense reports from credit card statements
A founder built a small internal tool with Claude Code that scans his credit card statements. It picks out charges that look like business expenses and outputs a spreadsheet that separates confident matches from uncertain ones.
Claude Code - Personal Finance
Negotiate a large hospital bill down with Claude's help
Business Insider reports how Matt Rosenberg used Claude to help negotiate $163,000 off a hospital bill. He describes AI as giving patients more leverage in billing disputes.
Claude - Dev
Plan-then-execute features in a large codebase with Claude Code
After about nine months with Claude Code as his main tool, this engineer follows a research, plan, implement routine. He refuses to let the agent write any code until he has annotated and approved a written plan.
Claude Code - Content
Transcribe a whole YouTube channel locally and publish it
Jon Radoff had years of YouTube conversations on his site with no transcripts. He built a Claude Code recipe that transcribes a whole channel locally, labels the speakers, and publishes everything from one prompt.
Claude Code - Ops
Convert raw feature ideas into Jira-ready tickets with human review
This open-source project uses an n8n workflow to turn loose product ideas into structured tickets ready for Jira. A human approves each ticket before it is created, so the team gets speed without losing control.
n8n + LLM - Research
Map thematic connections across 100 books with Claude Code
Pieter Maes used Claude Code to find thematic threads that link 100 books. He published the results as Trails, a browsable site where linked themes such as self-deception or hidden structural failure are traced across titles.
Claude Code - Personal Life
Build a math practice generator for your kids
A parent used Claude Code to build a math problem generator powered by o3-mini for his kids and relatives. He supervised while the agent wrote the app, and he picked up some JavaScript by reading the frontend code it produced.
Claude Code + o3-mini - Ops
Sort a year of business receipts for year-end bookkeeping
Instead of filing receipts by hand at year end, this founder put them all into one folder. Claude Code went through every receipt and sorted them for bookkeeping across his companies.
Claude Code - Content
Build a content engine that learns from your best-performing posts
After six months learning n8n for content automation, this creator rebuilt the same system in about three hours with Claude Code. It scrapes competitors' YouTube headlines, finds fresh angles, and generates content informed by his own analytics.
Claude Code - Marketing
Run keyword research, competitor analysis and blog drafting in one n8n workflow
A builder got fed up with juggling separate SEO tools and copy-pasting between them. He chained keyword research, competitor review and blog writing into a single n8n agent workflow and shared the demo and code.
n8n AI agent (Keywordo-kun) - Dev
Debug a production database-connection bug with Claude Code
A developer spent four days with Claude Code tracing a bug that took down their app. They worked through dozens of suspicious database connections, and the final fix was only three words. The post focuses on what they learned about debugging with AI.
Claude Code - Dev
Drive Claude Code from your phone over Termux and Tailscale
Instead of paying for a mobile agent product, this developer reaches his desktop's Claude Code from his phone. He uses SSH, Tailscale and Termux, a setup he says takes about 20 minutes.
Claude Code - Content
Summarize newsletters and draft topic research with n8n and Claude
This builder calls n8n the tool he used most that year. His flows included a newsletter and article summarizer, a topic research writer that pulls trending content, and a smart email reply generator built on the Claude API.
n8n + Claude API - Dev
Ship like a team of five by delegating features to Claude Code
The general manager of Every's email tool Cora describes handing work to Claude Code the way you would hand it to a colleague. He says this lets him ship at the pace of a much larger team.
Claude Code - Sales
Screen 49 pages of portal contacts with Manus
This user had Manus log into a web portal, page through 49 pages of possible contacts and open their profiles. The agent analyzed each bio and cross-checked it against his criteria, which he estimates saved about 40 hours of work.
Manus - Personal Finance
Roast your credit card statements to cut subscriptions
This user asked Claude to roast his credit card statements. Claude pointed out the overlap among his streaming services, and he says he now spends about $100 a month less on subscriptions.
Claude