What people do with Claude Code
Anthropic's coding agent, including the non-coding jobs people give it. 140 real use cases so far, most often for software and sales & marketing. Each links to its source and comes with a prompt to try.
140 use cases · 11 kinds of job · Updated Oct 8, 2026
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Test local web apps and fix errors in one session
Claude Code with Claude in Chrome writes code, opens localhost, clicks through the UI, reads console errors and fixes them without the developer touching the browser.
How it went The filter example took three iterations with no browser work from the developers. The setup is limited to a developer's own workstation: it needs a visible Chrome window, so no CI or headless runs, and it works in Chrome and Edge only.
3 accounts
Research companies and fill a CRM for outreach
Claude Code researches target companies, creates Attio CRM records via MCP, builds personalized reports and drafts outreach; a first run contacted 80 companies for one sale.
How it went The first run contacted 80 companies and produced one sale. Review and message prep dropped to about one minute per lead, against an estimated one to two hours without the system.
2 accounts
Compile deductions and Schedule C with Claude Code
Claude Code gathered charitable contributions and itemized deductions from sheets, email and statements and built a Schedule C; some categorizing stayed manual.
How it went He says the work took about three hours, versus roughly $1,000 for an accountant. Sorting, filtering and CSV parsing went well, but medical and childcare categorizing stayed manual.
3 accounts
Run an overnight chief of staff for email and calendar
A Claude Code system triages email at 5:30 AM, preps the calendar, updates tasks, adds drive-time events from traffic data and time-blocks the day.
How it went The author says the task list and calendar, including traffic-based drive-time events, are current by 6:15 AM. The source gives no measured results beyond that. Most of the guide is paywalled.
2 accounts
Search LinkedIn and submit tailored job applications
Claude Code drives a real Chrome browser to find matching jobs from a resume, collect them in a CSV, write cover letters, fill forms and submit.
How it went A search run yields 50-130 postings in minutes, and each application takes 60-90 seconds. The author says daily application time fell from 3-4 hours to about 30 minutes. CAPTCHAs and two-factor walls still need a human.
4 accounts
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Claude Code for software
Shipping code, reviewing PRs, running infra, and fixing things at 3am.
Test local web apps and fix errors in one session
Claude Code with Claude in Chrome writes code, opens localhost, clicks through the UI, reads console errors and fixes them without the developer touching the browser.
3 accounts
Automate web configuration from coding sessions
Commenters use Claude in Chrome to carry out web configuration requests that arise from coding sessions and other browser operations.
2 accounts
Click through macOS app builds to catch visual bugs
A developer used Claude Code computer use to compile, launch, and click through macOS app screens to find layout bugs.
2 accounts
Autonomously test an entire iOS app and report bugs
A tool lets Claude Code drive an iOS app through the accessibility tree, tap every screen, and return a structured bug summary.
2 accounts
Migrate a password reset flow to modern libraries
A developer had Claude Code migrate a legacy web app's password reset flow; it needed close supervision, drifted off task, and ended up slower than doing it by hand.
Hand off coding sessions between agent accounts at usage limits
A developer built an app that tracks usage across multiple Codex and Claude Code accounts and auto-hands-off conversations when one hits its limit.
Restyle a pull request to match repo house style
A developer asked Claude to update a PR to the repo's house style, but it only rewrote comments to be lowercase and less useful, making no code changes.
Write Playwright tests with Playwright MCP and Claude Code
A walkthrough of using Playwright MCP with Claude Code to generate Playwright tests in minutes.
Replace token-heavy Jira and GitLab MCPs with CLI skills
The author had Claude run --help on Atlassian and GitLab CLIs, saved the actions as Markdown, and built lightweight agent plugins that cut token use.
Run sandboxed Claude Code fleet sharing files via MCP
A developer runs a fleet of sandboxed Claude Code instances that share files through MCP tools on a virtual filesystem, with an orchestrator handling AWS storage and audit logs.
Take ideas to implementation with a planning-command pipeline
A solo SaaS founder uses a custom five-command agent flow (intent, impact analysis, planning, execution, review) with lint guardrails to ship features in a production product.
Catch intent conflicts between parallel coding agents
Agents publish planned changes before editing so conflicting architecture changes across parallel worktrees get flagged before code is written.
Get Microsoft Office running on Linux via Wine
Claude Code did most of the work to make desktop Office 365 run under Wine on Linux without virtualization, packaged as a Nix flake.
Run multi-stage PR reviews with parallel sub-agents
A Claude Code plugin that reviews pull requests in stages with sub-agents and validation passes, with optional ensemble review via Codex.
Find and fix flaky tests in a broken CI pipeline overnight
Claude monitors CI pass rates, identifies worst flaky tests, reproduces them and proposes fixes overnight; pipeline got 20 minutes faster and pass rate rose 35%, with some bad fixes discarded.
Port Claude Code hooks to pi extensions
After leaving Claude, the author pointed an agent at their Claude hooks folder and had it rebuild them as a pi extension, which it did quickly.
Edit site design visually and have an agent write the code
CSS Studio lets designers tweak a site visually in the browser and streams the changes via MCP to an existing coding agent that implements them in the codebase.
Recompile a 1991 assembly PC game with Claude Code
The author uses Claude Code CLI with Sonnet to get the source of their 1991 386+ assembly game compiling again.
Turn tickets into merged pull requests
Pulls tasks from GitHub Issues or Linear, then runs Claude Code or Codex in isolated Kubernetes pods to carry each one through to a PR.
Debug code hands-free by voice with Claude Code
Author built a local speech-to-text and text-to-speech stack hooked to Claude Code via MCP, and used it to debug a WhatsApp integration hands-free while brushing teeth.
Code from your phone
A write-up on a setup for using Claude Code on the go.
Create and read issues from Claude Code via a Tangled MCP server
The author started building an MCP server so Claude Code can create and read issues on Tangled.
Write better CSS with an MDN-aware helper
An MCP server that consults MDN docs, reports browser compatibility, and analyzes your CSS for the agent.
Manage Canvas courses in plain English
The author built a Canvas LMS tool with Claude Code that lets educators list courses, find missing submissions, monitor forums, schedule announcements and export the gradebook.
Debug frontend UI bugs with a browser agent
A frontend developer pairs Claude in Chrome with Claude Code to open the app, click through it, read the DOM, check console errors and network requests, and fix UI bugs.
Migrate a SaaS from AWS to DigitalOcean
A developer used Claude Code as a pair programmer for provisioning, database seeding, SSL, DNS cutover and production debugging, finishing in about four hours with zero downtime by his account.
Migrate a legacy product stack with Claude Code
An engineer ran a proof-of-concept that consolidated 4 repos into 2, moved MySQL to PostgreSQL, upgraded frameworks and replaced the auth model, in about 15 work days.
Migrate toolchain, architecture and site design with Claude Code
A developer had Claude Code switch a monorepo to oxlint/oxfmt, restructure the architecture and redesign a site, validating in a loop; the redesign took days instead of weeks.
Diagnose a killed process on a server
Codex CLI over SSH found the OOM killer in kernel logs on a 2 GB droplet with no swap and listed fixes by risk without changing anything.
Delegate web research from Claude Code to Comet
An MCP server lets Claude Code hand web navigation, login-walled pages and research to Comet while it keeps coding, then returns results.
Claude Code for sales & marketing
Finding leads, running outreach, answering customers, and growing revenue.
Research companies and fill a CRM for outreach
Claude Code researches target companies, creates Attio CRM records via MCP, builds personalized reports and drafts outreach; a first run contacted 80 companies for one sale.
2 accounts
Run a solo business with a team of 16 agents
A solo founder uses ~16 Claude and Codex agents for lead research, cold emails, CRM upkeep, SEO content and call prep, and says it found and qualified a first pilot customer.
Automate event social posting across platforms
Claude Code connected social channels to drive event registrations, working well on Twitter and Reddit and somewhat on LinkedIn.
Run marketing operations with a team of subagents
A CMO agent reads the weekly plan and spawns specialist subagents like a social media marketer and performance reviewer; the social agent double-posted to Reddit in week one.
Run brand marketing end to end and publish to social
A tool lets Claude Code scrape competitors, generate and edit images and videos, and publish to Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, X and Reddit; one video reportedly hit 5.3M views.
Audit ad accounts across six platforms
A Claude Code skill runs parallel subagents performing 190 audit checks across ad platforms and produces a prioritized action plan.
Run marketing campaigns, SEO and content with agents
The author built 18 open-source marketing agents for Claude Code covering campaigns, SEO, content and social posting.
Build a profitable online business from scratch with an agent
Poster gave an OpenClaw/Claude agent $50 and 60 days to build an online business, using content marketing on Reddit, Twitter and LinkedIn that drew 400+ visitors.
Research and draft cold outreach with Claude Code
Claude Code handles research and drafting for cold outreach while a separate platform sends at scale.
Check prospect fit and write cold email openers
Claude Code automates checking whether companies fit the target and creates personalized openers, saving manual prospect checking.
Automate lead research, CRM updates and enrichment
Claude Code handles repetitive prospecting-adjacent workflows like lead research, reporting, CRM updates and enrichment.
Qualify scraped leads and write personalized openers
Claude Code researches company news for icebreakers, qualifies leads from scraped lists and writes personalized opener variations.
Find and clean leads for recruiting outreach
A recruiting agency owner uses Claude to find leads; a commenter uses it to clean messy data and draft personalized outreach that gets replies.
Run outbound sales workflows with Claude Code
Four workflows cover pre-call research, event attendee scraping, a daily hot-leads digest, and post-call CRM updates and follow-up drafts.
Work helpdesk tickets with Claude Code and custom GPTs
Support admins built CLIs and skills for Confluence, Jira and Zendesk with Claude Code, and used a custom GPT to draft ticket answers that had to be pasted back manually.
Build prospect lists and cold emails from the web
Claude Code driving the author's logged-in Chrome read seed pages and LinkedIn profiles to find 25-30 sourced prospects; about 20 emails sent drew 7 replies.
Rewrite low-CTR meta titles and audit sites for SEO
An SEO agency tests Claude Code with a CMS API and Search Console to rewrite meta tags for low-CTR pages, push changes, and audit robots.txt, sitemaps and structured data.
Audit a blog's SEO with a browser
A developer used Claude Code with Puppeteer MCP to browse their blog, check meta tags, speed, structured data and mobile views, and write a report that caught a noindex issue.
Generate ad variations and pull campaign data for growth marketing
Anthropic's growth marketing team used Claude Code to flag underperforming ads from a CSV and generate hundreds of Google Ads variations, plus a Figma plugin and Meta Ads MCP server.
Triage support tickets and draft replies
A Claude Code skill builds scripts against support, billing and database APIs to list and triage tickets, gather billing context, draft replies, and run refunds and cancellations.
Claude Code for money
Unclaimed money, refunds, cancelled subscriptions, lower bills, taxes, and insurance.
Compile deductions and Schedule C with Claude Code
Claude Code gathered charitable contributions and itemized deductions from sheets, email and statements and built a Schedule C; some categorizing stayed manual.
3 accounts
Draft a tax filing from bank statements with Claude Code
A roundup of user reports, including one who had Claude Code draft a tax filing from bank statements and invoices, and another who organized 1,400 screenshots.
3 accounts
Fill in a tax organizer and review last year's return
Claude in Chrome captured the organizer's fields and entered data, Claude Code filled them in, and Claude reviewed the prior return; it sometimes claimed work was done without the info.
2 accounts
Track investments over time via Claude Code and Robinhood MCP
Poster asks how to get Claude Code connected to Robinhood via MCP to keep tracking investments after researching or trading; a question, not a finished result.
Manage investments, taxes and credit with a finance agent
The poster built a Claude Code personal finance agent to track investments, prepare for self-employment taxes and optimize credit utilization.
Generate investment analysis from live market data
The poster built a personal wealth advisor in Claude Code that feeds live market data, macro indicators and news into investment analysis.
Catch up on two years of overdue Dutch taxes
Claude Code helped a person almost two years behind on taxes untangle expenses, look up receipts and invoices, and navigate the Dutch tax system.
Prepare S-Corp tax filings from bookkeeping data
Claude Code wrote scripts parsing QuickBooks and bank statements, and Codex reviewed the code and caught errors like a wrong Schedule L mapping.
Reconcile monthly business transactions
Claude Code pulled a month of transactions over MCP and matched bank rows to receipts, proposing categories; it reconciled 200 rows but miscategorized 11, caught in a manual audit.
Keep company books with terminal coding agents
The author has kept books for several Swedish companies using Claude Code and Codex, which read receipts, matched bank rows, posted entries and caught a VAT error before filing.
Track personal finances with a Claude Code assistant
The author built a Claude Code financial assistant using macro data over MCP and his own financials to track his finances, assess health and support investment decisions.
Research stock positions as an AI analyst
A Claude Code agent twice weekly covers about 15 positions and a watchlist with news synthesis and bull/bear cases, while a human sets risk limits and approves trades.
Build an Excel portfolio tracker from trade logs
Claude Code reads a trade log, writes and runs Python, pulls live Yahoo Finance data and exports Robinhood trade history to build an Excel portfolio tracker.
File FSA reimbursement claims from invoice PDFs
Claude Code with the Chrome extension parsed Amazon invoice PDFs and spotted duplicates, but couldn't upload files and was slow, so the user had to step in.
Review IRS Tax Court case files and draft a settlement letter
A Tax Court defendant used Claude in Chrome to open and summarise portal documents in about 20 minutes, then Claude Desktop and Claude Code to organise evidence and draft a settlement letter.
Audit subscriptions and email companies to cancel them
Claude Code pulled transactions across credit cards, flagged recurring charges, and drafted cancellation emails, recovering $700.
Build a personal tax refund calculator instead of paying a CPA
A user had Claude Code build an interactive tax calculator using 2025 tables to avoid a $300 CPA fee.
Track personal finances nightly from bank emails
A non-coder had Claude Code build a finance tracker that pulls bank emails, categorizes spending, and runs nightly on a Raspberry Pi.
Extract expenses from credit card statements into Excel
The author had Claude Code read a folder of credit card statements, learn his patterns, and put relevant expenses into an Excel sheet, saving hours; he plans to review subscriptions next.
Claude Code for work
Planning, inboxes, documents, and the back office that runs a business.
Run an overnight chief of staff for email and calendar
A Claude Code system triages email at 5:30 AM, preps the calendar, updates tasks, adds drive-time events from traffic data and time-blocks the day.
2 accounts
Process and query email across providers via MCP agents
A developer built an email intelligence product using agents and MCP, running on open-source models, that lets LLMs query Gmail and Outlook mailboxes; in private beta.
Fill out 50 forms from public information
A user had Claude complete 50 individual work forms using public information, then proofread them and found them accurate.
Give a teacher a Claude Code workspace for lessons and reports
Built a Claude Code workspace for a teacher that remembers curriculum, grading style and class size to produce lesson plans, report comments, parent emails and rubrics.
Run an entire business from the terminal with Claude Code
Poster built a system that runs their whole business through Claude Code instead of Claude.ai; the specific tasks aren't detailed in the snippet.
Review contracts like NDAs and SaaS agreements in Claude Code
The author built an open-source contract-review skill for Claude Code and other AI coding tools to review NDAs, SaaS agreements, vendor terms and merchant agreements.
Triage a founder's inbox with Claude Code and Gmail MCP
A team connected a Gmail MCP server so Claude Code reads the inbox, labels messages and drafts replies, plus calendar prep and reports.
Run company departments with persistent self-hosted agents
A self-hosted company OS runs Claude Code and Codex agents per department, with memory, schedules, phone calls via Twilio, and document/video editing.
Automate monthly bookkeeping with Claude Code
A newsletter operator has Claude Code rename files, categorize expenses, match invoices to payments and build summaries, cutting about 6 hours to 20 minutes.
Screen 115 job candidates with parallel agents
A team connected Notion to Claude Code, dispatching one agent per candidate to check data and GitHub evidence against a rubric, producing a ranked shortlist for $65.
Log tenant maintenance requests for rental properties
In a vendor demo, Claude Code connected to TIDY's MCP server logs maintenance requests, notifies a handyman and escalates an urgent issue.
Revise courses from student evaluation feedback
A professor had Claude Code summarize course-evaluation PDFs, filed themes as GitHub issues, and used agents to revise his security course and two others.
Run content research and sponsor outreach with Claude computer use
The author tested Claude computer use in Cowork and Claude Code over two days on six workflows including research, sponsor outreach and product listings.
Build YouTube analytics reports and lead outreach with Claude Code
Claude Code pulled YouTube analytics via API into a verified Excel file, built a job-tracking app, and found and enriched sales leads with outreach.
Pull action items from emails with Claude Code
After seeing Claude Code extract and organise action items from emails in plain English, Becky tried it and built four apps in three weeks.
Delegate calendar, inbox and travel booking to a personal work agent
Authors use Cowork or Claude Code to schedule invites, triage email, book flights and hotels, pull Airtable data and scrape exhibitor lists.
Extract vendor PDFs and create QuickBooks invoices
A custom integration built with Claude Code extracts data from vendor PDFs and creates categorized invoices in QuickBooks Online.
Build a newsletter performance dashboard without coding
A non-coding media operator had Claude Code build a dashboard tracking newsletter performance across a network in about 30 minutes; a solo CFO built an expense system.
Build an invoice platform that flags anomalies
A non-developer used Replit and Claude to build an invoice platform that flags high-value invoices, sends payment reminders and catches duplicates; on 130 demo invoices it found four anomalies.
Claude Code for life admin
Forms, paperwork, health, family logistics, personal assistants, and the smart home.
Search LinkedIn and submit tailored job applications
Claude Code drives a real Chrome browser to find matching jobs from a resume, collect them in a CSV, write cover letters, fill forms and submit.
4 accounts
Manage Home Assistant automations with Claude Code
Adam uses Claude Code via an MCP server to search entities, read automation traces and build and debug automations like a shed motion light.
4 accounts
Build a thyroid episode warning model from wearable data
Claude Code was given 9.5 years of Apple Watch and Whoop data and built an ML model that backtested as warning of a prior episode before labs confirmed it.
3 accounts
Fill out PDF forms like a W-9 from saved personal details
A Claude Code skill fills PDF forms from supplied details, saves the file and remembers reusable info; flat scanned PDFs are a limitation.
2 accounts
Suggest date ideas and nudge for more date nights
Trained a Claude Code assistant with date spot lists and guidelines to suggest dates, nudge when needed and possibly book reservations.
Build a health plan from genetic and bloodwork data
Farzad gave Claude Code his raw 23andme file, bloodwork, artery scans and supplement routine, and a 2-hour conversation produced a tailored health and genetic plan.
Add travel bookings from email to calendar
The author runs Claude Code from a fixed folder with saved scripts to process new travel booking emails into their calendar.
Set up a Reddit profile through desktop control
A commenter says Claude Code set up their Reddit profile by screenshotting, navigating settings, filling forms and uploading images.
Plan meals and track symptoms with Claude Code
Claude Code plans meals, tracks nutrition and analyzes symptoms, scraping recipe nutrition data via the USDA API and storing it.
Let Claude read Apple Health and Fitbit data via MCP
The poster built a setup that lets Claude read Apple Health and Fitbit data and log workouts and meals through MCP.
Build e-ink fridge shopping list firmware
Claude Code wrote ~2,400 lines of C++ firmware for an ESP32 e-ink fridge magnet shopping list synced with a phone web app, now used by the family.
Analyze your chess games into commented videos
A Claude Code skill uses Claude vision plus Stockfish and your audio notes to turn a Lichess game into a commented video analysis.
Get a second opinion on an MRI
One person's account of using Claude Code to analyze their own MRI.
Give an agent persistent memory and identity
A developer gave a Claude Code agent memory and an identity, then reported back on what it was doing four months later.
Manage an inbox and build courses and budgets with Claude Code
A non-technical user filters their inbox to emails needing replies, turned 15 homeschool PDFs into interactive narrated courses, and built a budget dashboard.
Run life admin and to-dos from Claude Code
A new mom and entrepreneur uses Claude Code to capture to-dos, break overwhelming tasks into 10-minute first steps, and learn her preferences into a file.
Claude Code for content
Writing, music, video, and design with agents in the loop.
Create and publish YouTube videos from script to upload
An n8n pipeline writes a script, adds a voiceover and stock footage, assembles the video, uploads it to YouTube and updates a Google Sheet.
4 accounts
Create social media visuals with Canva MCP
The poster tried Canva MCP in Claude Code to produce app marketing visuals and found it a disaster.
Build a balloon-camel simulator for an LED Burning Man totem
Author used ChatGPT for reference images and Claude Code to build a Go balloon physics simulator with a web frontend, with Claude looping on screenshots and camera control.
Analyze a piano recording's BPM, structure and stems
With a skill installed, Claude Code installed ffmpeg and librosa and ran a Python pipeline on a local MP3, producing a report on BPM, structure and stems.
Generate live-coding music with Claude and perform it
An author had Claude write Strudel music code from a style description, hand-fixed hallucinated sample names, then restructured it for live performance and recorded it.
Turn newsletters into branded LinkedIn carousels
A newsletter writer built a Claude Code skill that converts a newsletter URL or text into 5-10 slide HTML/CSS carousels in under 5 minutes.
Compose songs by writing synthesis code
The author ran one-shot experiments where Claude Code wrote Python to synthesize music, including a rock song with sung lyrics via macOS say; sampling a song failed.
Compose and produce music through conversation
The author used Claude Code to write music and lyrics and build tooling integrated with Bitwig; one honky-tonk song was made entirely by conversation.
Draft and schedule a weekly newsletter
A /newsletter command in Claude Code finds the week's posts, drafts in the author's voice, gets approval, then creates and schedules the broadcast in Kit in about two minutes.
Index a newsletter archive and repurpose writing
Per the guide, Casey Newton used Claude Code to index 818 newsletter editions in under 30 minutes, and writers audit note vaults and turn essays into newsletter and thread files.
Claude Code for research
Digging through books, papers, and data, and keeping what you learn organized.
Find connections across 100 non-fiction books
Claude Code browses a personal library with CLI tools and surfaces trails of related excerpts across books.
2 accounts
Research stocks by pulling filings and transcripts
The poster has Claude Code fetch filings, transcripts and SEC documents for a company, cite sources, and write a bear case on a holding.
Turn YouTube videos into cited research notes
The author uses Claude Code with NotebookLM and Obsidian to turn 20 videos into cited notes, audio overviews, a knowledge graph and flashcards.
Query 600 GB of Hacker News, arXiv, and LessWrong in plain English
Claude Code writes the SQL and vector queries against a public read-only index, and can set email alerts for nuanced criteria.
Build data pipelines and analysis for a research paper
A researcher used Claude Code as the main agent to build data pipelines and do the data analysis for a paper, generating over 98% of the code.
Summarize 20 articles into a cited document
An agent extracted key insights from 20 articles, found common themes and produced a cited summary; the write-up estimates 18 minutes versus hours by hand.
Link journal entries and write book reviews in Obsidian
The author uses Claude Code in their Obsidian vault to add backlinks and entity notes to journal entries and to turn brain dumps into formatted book reviews.
Search years of research files in an Obsidian vault
Claude Code, guided by a CLAUDE.md, searches research papers, scans and PDFs via Spotlight, extracts text, and files daily notes in dated folders.
Synthesize interview transcripts and PDFs for research
Claude Code is pointed at transcripts and PDFs to produce theme summaries, evidence tables and annotated bibliographies; a UX researcher runs 50-transcript studies this way.
Claude Code for security & science
Vulnerability hunting, reverse engineering, math, CAD, and robots.
Design and build a robotic arm with no CAD experience
A builder used Claude Code with FreeCAD and Claude Vision to design, print, and assemble a 5-DOF servo arm with vision and voice control.
3 accounts
Generate a robot arm CAD model from one prompt
A text-to-cad skill let Codex produce a 7-DOF robot arm with kinematics, a GUI and STEP parts in one demo prompt, though not the gripper.
2 accounts
Reverse engineer a patch into a full exploit chain
A researcher used Claude Opus in Claude Code with Playwright MCP to decompile code, find vulnerabilities, and build a working exploit.
Patch laptop BIOS to unlock hidden firmware menus
A Reddit user gave Claude Code a BIOS dump; it disassembled it, found the signature check and patched it, unlocking hidden settings after flashing (secondhand account).
Verify SPICE simulations against a real oscilloscope
MCP servers for an oscilloscope and SPICE simulator let Claude Code compare simulated circuits with real hardware measurements, closing the loop.
Find a Linux vulnerability hidden for 23 years
An account of Claude Code uncovering a long-standing vulnerability in Linux.
Debug low-level cryptography code
Cryptography engineer Filippo Valsorda's write-up on Claude Code debugging low-level crypto.
Reverse engineer Claude Desktop to find a path to Linux support
A maintainer pointed Claude at the minified Claude Desktop app to find why Cowork only runs on macOS; it found the VM and sandbox layers and mapped a route to Linux.
All Security, Science & Hardware use cases, from every agent
Claude Code for games
Agents that play, build, and test games.
Play RollerCoaster Tycoon
Ramp Labs put Claude Code in RollerCoaster Tycoon.
Build Godot games with paired design and coding agents
Cowork handles design docs, task queues and playtests while Claude Code writes GDScript and runs Godot and git.
Build and balance a live Telegram RPG
A non-coding PM had Claude Code write a Telegram RPG bot, deploy it over SSH, and run tens of thousands of test fights to rebalance classes.
Build a 2D platformer game without coding
A content creator with no coding experience used Claude Code to build a black-and-white wave-combat platformer in HTML canvas and played it live.
Build retro games with a child using Claude Code
An author builds games like a space shooter and an animal hospital game with his 7-year-old, using pixel art assets and a spec drafted via Claude's question tool.
Add a battle-of-Alesia expansion to a 1990s game remake
Nate Combs used ChatGPT for research and a prompt, and Claude Code implemented the expansion, iterating on his playtest feedback.
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Fill a supermarket cart from regular purchases and sales
A developer built a Claude Code skill using Silpo's MCP server to re-add usual groceries, check sales and fill the real cart within a budget, leaving checkout to the human.
Email Houston dealerships to shop for a car
Cowork built a dealership tracking sheet, sent outreach emails, filled web forms and managed replies; a separate 100+ receipt expense job hit limits and moved to Claude Code.
Decide between points and cash for every trip
Skills and MCP servers that let Claude Code search award flights across 25+ mileage programs, compare cash fares, and check loyalty balances.
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