An agentic coding tool that works in your terminal and IDE.
Claude Code reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands and tests, and opens pull requests. Developers use it for multi-file refactors, bug fixes and repetitive engineering chores.
Authors use Cowork or Claude Code to schedule invites, triage email, book flights and hotels, pull Airtable data and scrape exhibitor lists.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Claude Code writes the SQL and vector queries against a public read-only index, and can set email alerts for nuanced criteria.
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.
The author tested Claude computer use in Cowork and Claude Code over two days on six workflows including research, sponsor outreach and product listings.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nate Combs used ChatGPT for research and a prompt, and Claude Code implemented the expansion, iterating on his playtest feedback.
In a vendor demo, Claude Code connected to TIDY's MCP server logs maintenance requests, notifies a handyman and escalates an urgent issue.
A team connected a Gmail MCP server so Claude Code reads the inbox, labels messages and drafts replies, plus calendar prep and reports.
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.
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.
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.