Let an agent pick and play a simple game
AI Village let agents choose their own games, and one agent spent the week on Minesweeper while also keeping a shared score sheet.
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Custom agent use cases
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Set up a GitHub bot that triages and patches bugs
They built a GitHub bot that sorts issues, reviews pull requests, answers with citations, and opens patch PRs for humans to check.
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Use a guarded loop to publish pages and a tool
An agent ran 365 short rounds, checked a revenue dashboard each time, and ended up with 394 linked pages plus a webhook checker site.
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Set up an online shop and test the full checkout
They built a retail site with AI, added checkout, and verified the payment flow before turning it into a live store.
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Use a chat agent to push for a lower support quote
An AI agent handled a GoDaddy support chat and secured a cheaper price after the person set the rules and waited for the result.
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Build an after-hours call handler that books visits
They set up agents to take late calls, gather details, book appointments, and spot upset callers for follow-up.
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Use a voice agent to answer business calls
Small businesses set up voice agents to screen calls, capture details, and route real customers to staff while logging everything in their CRM.
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Triage school messages and prepare my replies
A parent has an agent sort school mail, summarize it, and draft responses they can review before sending.
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Use past orders to build your grocery cart
An Instacart assistant filled a cart from prior shopping history, then added meal ingredients and pointed out missing store items.
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Prepare a flight-delay compensation claim safely
An agent checked a flight’s timing, estimated the payout, and drafted the airline claim without submitting it.
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Create a CLI coding agent from a Python LLM base
Claude Code turned Simon Willison’s Python LLM template into a working CLI coding agent from two prompts.
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Assemble a R coding agent from three basic tools
They wired a Claude agent in R to file and shell helpers, then hardened it with safer path checks and editing functions.
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Check a codebase for redundant packages and polyfills
An agent can scan code and install commands to find dependencies that can be replaced with built-ins or better options.
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Use parallel agents to build a database engine
They split a SQLite implementation across several coding agents working in separate branches, then merged the pieces after repeated test-and-fix loops.
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Set up a car helper that works without internet
A Raspberry Pi in a car used a local model to answer manual questions and read live diagnostics, while some vehicle controls ran through Home Assistant.
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Revive old apps and sketch new ones with a coding agent
Terence Tao used a coding agent to port old Java applets to JavaScript and to build two new math visualizations in conversation.
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Run coding agents in parallel with tmux and Markdown specs
Manuel Schipper uses separate tmux panes and numbered Markdown specs to keep several coding agents moving at once.
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