All use cases
Investigate papers overnight with a bot research team
Grok Bot roles read new papers and extract claims, rerun analyses, and scan sources, working overnight to produce briefs.
Iterate on tasks with Copilot CLI autopilot and fleet
The author used autopilot to iterate until done and /fleet to split work across parallel subagents, noting overhead on small tasks.
Keep a personal website's content updated automatically
A developer's setup for automating their site's content with agents and MCP.
Keep coding agents running autonomously for long stretches
Cursor's write-up on scaling long-running autonomous coding.
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.
Label school emails and draft parent replies
A parent's agent labels school and parent emails, drafts replies she edits and sends, and asks before adding dates to her calendar.
Launch and run an online store with AI agents
The author used an AI store builder to launch a retail shop taking real payments in one sitting, with five agents watching orders, stock and customers.
Learn personal scripts from a tools folder
Claude Cowork read a folder of personal scripts for email, CRM, research and drafting, added them to memory, and carried the capabilities to a new interface.
Let a custom agent change its own repository
Author's custom-built agent made its first code change to its own repository.
Let a voice receptionist schedule appointments via MCP
A custom MCP server exposes list, schedule and cancel appointment tools so an ElevenLabs voice agent can handle customer calls against the company CRM.
Let agents build recipe viewer URLs
The author gives agents a skill file and docs so they generate recipe URLs for a recipe viewer, working even in permission-limited agents like ChatGPT web.
Let agents edit Word documents via MCP
An MCP lets AI agents edit Word documents, handling the OOXML mechanics, originally built for pharma regulatory document editing.
Let agents fill out web forms using text-grid page rendering
Author built TextWeb, a text-grid browser so LLM agents can fill out job applications without costly vision models.
Let agents phone restaurants to book tables
Jake built a tool that lets agents like Claude or ChatGPT make phone calls to book tables, handling callback numbers mid-call.
Let agents play computer games all day with Claude
Agents including Claude Opus and o3 were given computers to independently play games like 2048 for hours.
Let AI agents design in Figma
A CLI that lets coding agents create shapes, text, frames and components in Figma, so agents can build layouts and component systems.
Let AI agents file employment tax returns with the IRS
An MCP server in development lets agents submit tax returns (employment forms 941 and 940 first) to the IRS as a tool call; it is still in IRS certification and not yet live.
Let AI agents place DoorDash orders with Claude
DoorDash's dd-cli beta lets agents order food, with a demo of Claude completing a full order end to end.
Let AI agents search a store, build carts, and prep checkout with Claude
A store is set up so Claude or ChatGPT agents can search the catalog, build a cart, and apply promo codes, then hand over a checkout link before payment.
Let AI models trade stocks autonomously with $1k each
Poster ran four AI models on a weekday pre-market prompt to trade $1,000 portfolios each for nine weeks; ChatGPT came out ahead.
Let an agent extend its own code inside a Docker sandbox with Claude
An agent built on Claude and Agno implements capabilities in its own source code in Docker, with changes validated, committed, or rolled back; it reached 21+ capabilities.
Let an agent start a business from scratch
Josh gave Devin a card, phone, inbox, Stripe and repo to start a business; after four weeks and 10,929 calls it landed its first paying customer.
Let Claude buy a game autonomously with Claude
The poster built payment infrastructure so Claude could complete a game purchase on its own when told to, in about 60 seconds.
Let Claude drive a Mac to play chess and make notes
A writer gave Claude computer use control of his Mac to play chess and create notes; simple tasks worked, complex ones failed, and usage quota nearly ran out.
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.
Let Cursor maintain an Obsidian notes vault
Cursor reviews vault structure, suggests connections, answers questions about notes and writes a daily done note documenting other agent sessions.
Let general-purpose agents choose and play their own games
AI Village gave agents a computer to pick games; GPT-5 spent the week on Minesweeper without winning and built a Google Sheets scoresheet to track agents.
Let terminal agents make phone calls
A CLI tool built on Twilio gives terminal agents a voice to make calls, with a dashboard for questions they can't answer.
Let the bot email customers from your own domain
The poster set up a custom-domain mailbox as an MCP connector for Grok Bot, plus a webhook so new mail triggers an automation.
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.
Lint, fix, commit and push code from the terminal
Scout runs a linter, fixes a syntax error, re-runs it, reviews staged changes, writes a commit message and pushes to a new branch, shown as a walkthrough.
List a Quest 3 and negotiate with buyers
Meta Muse listed a Meta Quest 3 on Facebook Marketplace and was instructed to negotiate with buyers using a floor price and push strategy.
Log meals from text, voice or photos and track nutrition
A Telegram AI agent in n8n logs meals sent as text, voice or photos, estimates calories and macros, tracks goals in Google Sheets and sends daily reports.
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.
Look up user records and update downstream steps
A poster used a Zapier agent to find user records and update later steps, but it failed when source data had latency or formatting mismatches.
Lower an internet bill and file expense reports
Commenters say Grok Bot negotiated a Spectrum rate down by $20 a month via chat and handles expense reports from photos sent to a Clerk Bot.
Maintain a home media library and handle personal projects
Commenters say Grok Bot manages a Plex library with backups, deduplication, thumbnails, and collections, and helped build a Tesla HUD display after finding old purchase emails.
Maintain a profitable Stripe-backed app with Replit
A commenter's Replit-built app reached about £20k in sales, and they use the agent to hunt duplications, organize code and add security like reCAPTCHA.
Make a dinner reservation with Operator
Marily recorded her first try using Operator to make a dinner reservation, liking that it skipped searching and detail entry, but found it slower than expected.
Make a music video from a reference
Given a song, lyric timing data, images and a reference video, Grok Bot produced a music video with transitions and text effects in minutes of hands-on time.
Make an AI trends presentation
The author had Manus 1.6 Lite build a 2026 AI trends deck; research was deep but generation took over 10 minutes and slides were monotonous.
Make auditable rule-based decisions with RAG-written explanations with Claude
A Rete rule engine decides loans, fraud and triage cases, then RAG over policy documents has an LLM explain the verdict, with an MCP server available.
Make daily safe SEO fixes with a Codex automation
A scheduled Codex automation reviews analytics and SEO notes each morning, picks five safe fixes like internal links and metadata, and applies them.
Make music videos, portfolio sites and sorting scripts
A creator used Grok Bot for a full music video, a prompt engine, portfolio site code, scripts to sort 158 AI images and videos, and a career page.
Manage 10 social media accounts with agents
The author runs 10 accounts with OpenClaw agents and cron jobs, reports follower growth, and added health checks after an analytics job silently failed for three days.
Manage 18 agents from a Notion workspace
Notion used as the control plane for a fleet of 18 OpenClaw agents.
Manage a brokerage account in plain English with an AI agent
Coinbase's SEC-registered AI agent uses full portfolio context and account history to take account actions from plain English and suggest investment ideas.
Manage an inbox and book jobs as an office manager
Users run Grok Bot as an inbox manager and as an office manager that takes work orders, plans capacity and books jobs across Gmail, Slack, and ServiceTitan.
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.
Manage calendar and email with an agent
The poster gave an agent calendar and email access for two weeks; it handled much but sent a reply unapproved, double-booked on a timezone error and declined a wanted meeting.
Manage calendar and tasks by text with an assistant
A review of Lindy as an iMessage assistant that reschedules meetings and schedules from screenshots, with reported failures like hidden invites and unsent emails.
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.
Manage customer enquiries from Telegram
An n8n system captures email and form enquiries, creates tasks, and lets the owner reply via Telegram while the AI sends emails and updates status.
Manage email, calendar and tasks from Slack with Make
An agent built on Make.com with Gmail, Google Calendar and Notion triages emails, checks the calendar and adds tasks on Slack commands.
Manage family email, calendar and school chats
An agent named Anna, reached by text or WhatsApp, manages family email, calendar and school WhatsApp groups and automates forms and schedules.
Manage family schedules, routines and meal ideas
An n8n workflow sends family activity reminders, routine checklists and a weekly plan prompt over email and Telegram, and generates meal ideas.
Manage files in a chosen folder with an agent
The author built an open-source desktop agent that works inside a chosen folder, reading and writing files and asking before changing anything.
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.
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.
Manage NixOS server configs with Claude Code
The author uses Claude Code to maintain the NixOS config repo for their self-hosted machines, blocked from running nixos-rebuild switch and reviewing each change before applying it manually.
Manage rentals and arrange apartment tours with Claude
A property manager's team uses Claude in Chrome for routine management work, with a database so the AI can answer questions and check schedules to help arrange apartment tours.
Manage X follows and unfollows
@keyrunnftart used Comet to unfollow accounts and follow others back on X.
Map and control a whole smart home
Karpathy's agent scanned the home network, logged into Sonos, reverse-engineered APIs, mapped lights, HVAC, shades, pool and security, and built a dashboard.
Measure how long jobs stay open at tech companies
An agent read 25 open jobs each at five companies and measured how long each had been posted, e.g. 21 of 25 at Figma were 60+ days old.
Migrate 180 microservices to a new framework version
Brex built Cursor-based self-correcting agents that let one engineer migrate 180 microservices to a newer Micronaut version in about a month.
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 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.
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 an Electron app from Vue 2 to Vue 3
Kearney gave Devin repo access to migrate a production Electron app to Vue 3 and update npm packages, committing after every five components.
Migrate FreshBooks account data to Google Sheets
A commenter used Comet to move five years of FreshBooks account data into Google Sheets.
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.
Migrate WordPress posts to MDX
Claude Code pulled posts from the WordPress REST API and converted them to MDX with frontmatter, migrating 367 posts and 5 pages in one session.
Mine Reddit threads into structured Notion reports
An n8n workflow scrapes Reddit posts and comments via Bright Data, extracts concerns and themes with Gemini, and writes reports to Notion.
Monitor Amazon and eBay prices and email on changes
An n8n workflow checks product URLs from a Google Sheet three times a day, compares prices, emails changes and logs every check.
Monitor and respond to home office sensors
Omar Shahine ran a local OpenClaw agent on his MacBook, extended with home automation so it could observe and respond to physical sensors in his home office.
Monitor and score CVEs with real-time alerts
An n8n workflow monitors CVEs from sources like CISA and OTX, scores them with AI, and alerts via Slack, Gmail and Google Sheets.
Monitor competitor marketplace prices
The poster uses Grok Bot to check competitor listings and product prices over time, though CAPTCHAs block it on some sites.
Monitor construction project risk and alert the lead
A builder made an n8n and Gemini watchdog that checks schedules, budgets, procurement, labor, weather and site reports, finds the main bottleneck, and alerts the project lead.
Monitor DeFi positions and alert on risky pools
AI agents watched a user's DeFi and traditional accounts across 37 chains and flagged a risky liquidity pool, preventing potential losses.
Monitor investing news and produce morning macro summaries
SouthernValue95's Meta Muse agent Alfred monitors X investing topics, transcribes podcasts, tracks news and regulation for watchlist names, and writes morning macro summaries.
Monitor PC memory and ask before closing apps
Grok Bot noticed high RAM use from 22 Python processes, texted a breakdown, and asked permission before closing applications.
Monitor public documents for changes affecting teaching materials
An educator's Dot checks public documents for changes, sorts them by impact, and verifies an article's notation against linked pages, offering revision candidates only.
Monitor Reddit, draft replies and schedule posts with Claude
A commenter built a personal Claude agent acting as social media manager that monitors Reddit, drafts replies, and schedules posts.
Monitor Resy and book date night tables
Brian built a Hermes agent that watches Resy for openings at favorite NYC restaurants and books tables, but it had no rate limits and got his account suspended.
Monitor socials and flag comments, DMs and mentions worth answering
Agents are given access to social accounts to watch for comments, DMs and mentions and notify the user when one is worth a reply.
Monitor tasks and open pull requests with long-running agents
A commenter runs a persistent script that watches tasks and uses Cursor to open pull requests, building a documentation summarizer and a data pipeline.
Monitor tech subreddits and competitors, draft emails and articles
Commenters use Cowork daily to scan Reddit tech subreddits for work items, monitor competitors and markets, generate articles and draft emails.
Navigate Goat Simulator 3 with a game-playing agent
Gemini-powered SIMA 2 navigates Goat Simulator 3, and a human player can direct it to improve its performance.
Negotiate a billing credit from AT&T
Claude in Chrome negotiated a $100 credit from AT&T in a billing dispute with no human involvement, one of five use cases tested.
Negotiate a car purchase between dealers
OpenClaw researched prices, searched dealer inventory, filled contact forms and played quotes against each other for $4,200 off; it messaged a wrong dealer once.
Negotiate a lower Comcast bill via chatbot with ChatGPT
DoNotPay's ChatGPT-based bot chatted with Comcast support for an engineer and secured a $10 monthly discount.
Negotiate a lower fiber bill with AT&T chat
Meta Muse negotiated with AT&T support chat to cut a fiber plan from $85.94 to $60/mo while keeping the bundle discount and no contract.
Negotiate a lower GoDaddy support price via chat agent
The poster told an AI agent to negotiate a cheaper price in GoDaddy support chat, checking for replies every 60 seconds, and says it got a better deal.
Negotiate a TV price with a retailer's chat
ChatGPT Agent negotiated in Dutch with a retailer's chat, handled upsells, and landed an LG OLED TV at €939 including shipping.
Negotiate bills by emailing providers to match competitors
A ChatGPT workflow finds bills in statements, looks up competitor prices, emails providers via Gmail asking them to match, and summarizes outcomes, with user review before sending.
Negotiate bills, handle returns and cancel subscriptions
A Meta employee said Muse negotiated an AT&T bill, found Amazon returns, returned IKEA furniture and filed a vet claim; another had a forgotten subscription cancelled and refunded.
Negotiate Facebook Marketplace purchases with sellers
A user set up an agent to lowball sellers on Facebook Marketplace, and it reportedly negotiated a Jeep Wrangler for $1500 plus a PS5 and three TVs.
Negotiate hotel rooms by phone call
An AI assistant called a hotel in Japan and negotiated the same two rooms for all five nights; the user listened to the recording afterward.
Negotiate retention discounts on bills by phone
A voice agent calls service providers, navigates IVR menus, waits on hold and negotiates retention discounts for users, pausing for OTP verification.
One-shot a CLI coding agent on top of a Python LLM library
Simon Willison had the Fable model more or less one-shot a CLI coding agent built on his LLM Python library.