Claude Code use cases: 37 real examples
Anthropic's coding agent, including the non-coding jobs people give it. Here is what people have got it to do.
37 use cases · Most often: creative · software · marketing · Updated Oct 16, 2026
All 37 Claude Code use cases
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Dub a film into English in each actor's own voice
A developer built a setup where Claude Code or Codex dubs films in each actor's copied voice; he reports watchable results, with a full movie taking about seven hours.
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Turn a folder of raw video clips into an edited video
Browser Use's free video-use add-on has Claude Code transcribe raw clips, propose an edit plan, then cut filler, adjust color, add subtitles and produce the final video.
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Set up smart-home routines by describing them
An open-source project lets Claude Code copy a live Home Assistant setup, write home routines from plain-English requests, and check them several ways before sending changes back.
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Port a Python tool to TypeScript with hundreds of agents
Anthropic's Mike Krieger had hundreds of Claude Code agents rewrite a Python tool as 165,000 lines of TypeScript over a weekend, Anthropic reports, checked against the original.
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Rebuild old game code from games you own with agents
Developer i12bp8 built decomp.wtf, where coding agents turn retro game code back into readable code; the guide shows one Nintendo 64 piece matching exactly, with no overall results.
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Let a coding agent design sound effects by listening
Leonxlnx built earshot so coding agents can describe and create sounds; they say every sound in a 22-second launch film came from it.
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Make a product promo video from one line
Developer liyupi's add-on has Claude Code research a product, take sharp screenshots, cut to the music's beat and add a voice; he shows five videos, each taking 4–18 minutes to finish.
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Turn a trip into a pixel-art road fly-through
Jon Wheatley's Pixel Path skill has Claude Code turn real roads into pixel-art fly-throughs; the author reports Bath to Bristol cost $5.76 and Kyoto $0.72.
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Turn biology questions into interactive cited diagrams
A developer built Anima, an add-on that has Claude Code turn biology questions into interactive, sourced diagrams; they've published live examples on dopamine, stimulants, semaglutide and nerve cells.
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Get a second read of your own MRI scan files
Antoine Finkelstein had Claude Code analyze his shoulder MRI files; it argued, with moderate-to-high confidence, for no tear where the radiologist reported one, and radiologists pushed back.
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Build a tax-law research assistant from public documents
Martin Alderson had Claude Code research about 10,000 UK tax documents; he scored its answer to a past exam question 2.5 of 3, where plain Opus failed.
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Draft your tax return from bank statements
Newsletter editor Shakeel Hashim, who doesn't code, had Claude Code draft his tax filing from bank statements and invoices; he says it "got everything right."
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Write and format online ads with an agent
Anthropic marketer Austin Lau, who had never coded, used Claude Code to build ad-writing tools; Anthropic reports making an ad fell from 30 minutes to 30 seconds.
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Test whether code comments help Claude Code build features
Roberto Aranda had Claude Code build two features three times each, with and without 168,000 comment lines; he reports the quality scores were too close to matter.
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Turn your Apple Health workouts into a dashboard
Phil Simon had Claude Code sort through his exported Apple Health data and build an interactive workout dashboard; he says it beats Apple Health and Strava, and shared it publicly.
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Script, animate and sound-mix a complete video
Miftahul Islam Efaz built a skill that has Claude Code script, animate and mix sound for videos; the author says the skill's own 56-second launch ad was made with it.
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Build a working 3D machine simulation from one line
AirsupHQ's Machine Skill has Claude Code turn one line of text into an interactive 3D machine simulation; the author reports a 3,597-part jet engine producing about 340 kN of thrust.
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Build a two-phone Pong game that talks through sound
Simon Willison had Claude Code build a two-player Pong game where phones share the game through audio chirps picked up by the microphone; he says it seems to work.
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Have an agent build and fix a game explosion effect
A game developer had Claude Code build an explosion effect in Unity; the author says it captured still images of the effect and kept fixing it without help.
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Hide passwords and customer data from your coding agent
A developer built an add-on that hides passwords and personal data before Claude Code sees them; he reports tasks still get done while real values stay on his computer.
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Recreate a short animated video frame by frame
Asked to recreate a 63-second animated video, Claude Code launched 161 Codex image-making sessions and stitched the frames together, the poster says, without describing the finished quality.
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Developer remakes 1993 Maxis game SimFarm for the web with Codex and Claude Code
A developer rebuilt the 1993 Maxis game SimFarm in TypeScript and React with help from Codex and Claude Code. It now plays in browsers and on phones, with bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements.
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Replace a team of AI agents with one assistant
A founder says he sent his 16 Claude Code agents 56 messages on day one and almost none a week later, so he replaced them with one assistant.
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Design 3D-printable parts by describing them
A developer built SOMA, an app where coding agents like Claude Code design 3D-printable parts as code; he reports very good results in this early prototype.
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Rewrite work emails plainly without changing the facts
Developer phuryn's Claude Code skill rewrites work writing plainly but keeps facts; in the author's blind test, AI judges picked it 48% of the time, versus 20% for a rival.
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Check coding agents' claims against their real changes
Daniel Nwaneri built claimcheck to test whether coding agents' descriptions match their actual code changes; he reports it caught all 11 dishonest agents across 5 runs of 28, flagging no honest ones.
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Turn an app's code into a priced cloud setup plan
Developer bealesh built a Claude Code add-on that turns app code into tested cloud setup files with price estimates; they report sample apps costing $77 to about $801 monthly.
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Turn any topic into a short audio course with sources
Assaf Kipnis built Claudemy, a Claude Code skill that reads 20-40 web pages per topic; the author says a 12-lesson course yields about 25 minutes of two-voice audio.
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Spot new AI product names daily and pick search terms
Developer zhuyansen built a Claude Code tool that spots new AI product names each day and rates search phrases; he reports about $15 a month in running costs.
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Build a personal booking page overnight with two agents
A developer had Claude Code build a booking app and Codex check it overnight; he says his site for booking video calls was live by Sunday.
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Turn a design file into a photography portfolio site
A developer had Claude Code read exact sizes, fonts, colours and photo crops from a Figma design to build a portfolio site; he directed the animation himself.
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Make a sticker-peel animation with sound in code
A creator had Claude Code build a sticker-peel animation and its sound entirely in code, then joined them; they report a smooth 60-frames-per-second video with matching audio.
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Have an agent test and fix its own browser add-on work
A developer had Claude Code test, load and screenshot his Chrome add-on after each change and fix failures itself; he estimates about three in four debugging moments are gone.
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Work out a game's rules and build your own copy
A developer used a tool called REA with Claude Code to work out how Wordle scores guesses, including repeated letters, then build a working copy shown in a video.
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Have an agent fix a bug in core system code
Linus Torvalds let Claude Code write a fix for part of the Linux system core; The New Stack reports reviewers then found a timing bug in it.
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Let an agent run a website and its ad budget
A developer gave Claude Code a website, ad accounts and a budget to manage every four hours; he says it mostly churns out search-bait pages and share buttons.
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Turn a one-line brief into a designed website
Developer juliobsz published an /awwwards skill that has Claude Code turn a one-line brief into a designed, screenshot-checked site; the author says it keeps fixing until every score reaches 8/10.
