THE USE CASE LIBRARY
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An n8n builder set up a scheduled workflow of about 50 nodes that reads their profile (LinkedIn, portfolio) via a scraping service, generates search queries, pulls listings from a jobs AP…
A farmer set up a scheduled Grok automation that takes the day's spot corn price and his estimated trucking cost to each grain elevator and terminal in his area, works out the net price h…
A Claude Code user keeps tasks in a YAML todo file managed by a small Python script, and added a task-manager sub-agent with just two actions: fetch the next task and mark a task complete…
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Sponsor this spotOne developer spent 15 days running two coding agents side by side on one project. Claude Code handled the frontend and Codex handled the backend. Both worked in a shared space called Tut…
Developer Vitor Baptista liked how chat apps can turn a model's HTML into a page you can share, but he switches models often and didn't want to be stuck with one vendor. So he built geton…
Writer Lane Rettig set up an always-on OpenClaw agent named Baz on a separate computer. Baz has limited access to his email, calendar, files, and chat apps, and it rereads a memory file w…
The owner of a software studio with about 20 people runs Hermes Agent on a rented server. It's linked to the team's IRC chat, code repos, Cloudflare, nginx, and a few custom MCP tools. Se…
Two Home Assistant users had Claude help them build new home dashboards. The first, u/ElementZoom, spent a weekend turning their old YAML dashboards into custom web pages. The tiles move…
A creator set up a daily scheduled task in Claude that sends three post ideas each morning, including what to record and when to publish. The agent deliberately never posts; the creator s…
A Hacker News user doesn't trust ChatGPT's memory, so they keep their notes in git instead. They linked ChatGPT to the GitHub MCP server and gave it access to three or four repos. Each re…
Linus Torvalds published a branch in which Claude Code, under his direction, wrote a Linux patch series that lets many threads read small parts of the same file from the page cache withou…
A user has Grok Bot copy new calendar items into Todoist as tasks, then each morning read Todoist and generate a daily planner PDF with working links for use in the Goodnotes handwriting…
A Reddit user browsing NASA TESS data with Claude Code noticed a star with a repeating dip. Over about two weeks they directed the agent to download and parse the data, write a transit se…
A user zipped up more than 100 images, gave them to ChatGPT Agent and asked it to rename every file based on its content, create category subfolders and move each image into place. They g…
Prime Intellect had its own coding agent, Prime Agent, rewrite itself from TypeScript into Rust over two weeks, using more than 2,000 sub-agents. People spent their time on tests, not cod…
Over several months a Hacker News poster taught GPT and Claude agents to write LDraw, the text format for Lego CAD where each line places one part. The open-source toolset lets an agent p…
The owner of a directory of tens of thousands of specialty retailers and ranges keeps listings current with a custom agent harness: models verify facts against sources, decide which recor…
Cockroach Labs engineers Adam Storm and Rafi Shamim set up their coding agents like the staff of a teaching hospital. Each GitHub issue is a patient. A triage agent admits it, a fellow pl…
A founder building German e-invoicing software runs Hermes Agent on a home server to watch for compliance and regulation changes and send him a briefing every morning. He describes it as…
To test whether an agent could handle unfamiliar hardware, a Hacker News poster had Claude Code write all of the roughly 2,400 lines of C++ firmware for a small ESP32 e-ink touchscreen, p…
A developer wrote one prompt per visual style, from cel animation and isometric 2.5D to a cyberpunk HUD, and had Claude produce fifteen 10-second films purely as code. Each film is a web…
One developer settles product behaviour and technical approach up front, writes it into a spec, and hands it to a long-running implementation engine. After each build, automated checks ru…
A sales-ops user narrated a screen recording of a recurring reporting task, explaining why each click mattered, then had Gemini turn the video into detailed step-by-step instructions. Pas…
A developer only lets Cursor's agent mode loose on small, well-bounded work such as third-party integrations, background jobs, notifications and activity tracking. They first review an im…