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3 Free AI Tools to Set Up With Claude
Granola, Obsidian, Excalidraw, Connected
Most people run Claude with nothing connected to it. These three free tools fix that. Granola is a connector that lets Claude pull any meeting or call. Excalidraw is a connector that lets Claude draw hand-style diagrams on command. Obsidian works differently, and this is the part everyone gets wrong: it's not a connector, it's a folder you point Claude Code or Cowork at every single time so it reads everything you've written. The exact setup for all three, the copy-paste CLAUDE.md template, a test prompt for each, and a workflow that chains them into one connected brain.
Set Up Claude Cowork Like the Pros
Two Prompts, One AI That Knows You
Most people open Cowork, start typing, and wonder why it acts like a goldfish. The pros run two prompts first. The exact copy-paste Global Instructions brief that loads before every task, and the Second Brain Builder that interviews you and writes your CLAUDE.md, About Me, and brand-voice files into a folder Claude reads every time. Twenty minutes, no coding, and Cowork shows up already knowing who you are.
Stop Uploading PDFs to Claude
Cut Your Token Use by 70%
Every PDF you drag into Claude burns up to 5,000 tokens per page, and a 20-page doc can eat 10% of your context window before you ask a thing. MarkItDown, a free Microsoft tool with 140k+ GitHub stars, converts PDFs, Office files, images, audio, and YouTube links into clean Markdown that Claude reads for a fraction of the cost. The exact copy-paste prompt that installs it for you, the formats it handles, when to reach for it, and the gotchas nobody mentions (scanned PDFs, the [all] flag, image OCR vs descriptions).
4 Ways to Make Money With the Hermes Agent
Four Plays, Four Prompts, One 48-Hour Start
Hermes is the fastest-growing AI agent on the internet, but almost nobody is making money with it. Four real playbooks that attach it to something businesses already pay for: lead gen, custom AI employees ($5K/mo per client), content research, and market alerts. Each comes with the bad-vs-good copy-paste prompt, an interactive quiz that picks your play, and a 48-hour checklist to land your first result. The honest frame throughout: it's a junior operator, not a money printer.
The AI Adoption Curve
5 Tiers, From Old Schooler to AI CHAD
Everyone using AI sits on the same 5-tier curve, and most people are stuck one rung lower than they think. The full map: what defines each tier, the exact tool stack at every stage (ChatGPT and Grok at the bottom, Claude Code, Wispr Flow, OpenClaw, and Hermes at the top), and the single level-up move that bumps you to the next. Find your tier, then climb.
Set Up Kronos
The Free AI That Forecasts the Markets
The same kind of tech a hedge fund pays millions for is sitting on GitHub for free. Kronos is the first open-source AI model built to forecast financial markets (27.9k stars, accepted to AAAI 2026, trained on 45+ exchanges). The honest framing (it's a forecasting tool, not a money printer), the no-code setup that lets Claude install and run it for you, the manual Python quick-start, and 5 copy-paste prompts including the backtest that shows how close it actually gets.
The Claude Council
Five Advisors, One Verdict, No Yes-Man
Stanford found Claude agrees with you about 50% more than another human would, which makes it a yes-man on every decision that matters. The Claude Council fixes that. One free skill turns Claude into five advisors who answer independently, peer-review each other blind, and hand you one clear call. What it is, the two-minute install, how to run it, and full credit to Ole Lehmann, Andrej Karpathy, and AI with Remy.
The $5K/Month Solo AI Agent Playbook
One Person, One Agent, $5,000 a Month
There's a guy charging clients $5,000 a month to build and manage a single AI agent, with no team and no agency. The full playbook from his interview with Greg Isenberg: the offer that makes "unlimited" feel cheap, the one word swap that 100x's the price (AI employee, not agent), the six industries to target and two to avoid, and the exact stack he uses to build, host, connect, and babysit every agent.
The FDE Playbook
AI's Fastest-Growing Role, No Code Required
The Forward Deployed Engineer role is exploding (Salesforce wants 1,000, postings up over 800% in a year) and you don't need to code to get it. The data behind the boom, the myth keeping most people out, and the four-step play to position yourself from zero: become the AI person where you already work, automate something boring, document the proof, and get hired on receipts no bootcamp can match.
The 7-Day AI Roadmap
Beginner to Your Own AI Team
The exact seven-day setup that turns Claude from a chatbot into a team of agents that draft your emails, prep your day, and finish real work while you sleep. One move a day: the four-folder workspace, your ABOUT-ME and ROLE files, your first real handoff, native connectors, inbox triage in your voice, and a scheduled 7am morning brief. Six copy-paste prompts, no coding background.
How I'm Using Opus 4.8
Get the Most Out of the New Model
Opus 4.8 is the best model out there, and most people leave half of it on the table. The effort lever almost nobody touches (4.8 on low vs ultra feels like two different models), three prompting changes that make it actually listen, what genuinely changed under the hood, and the honest catch reviewers are flagging. No hype, no "it's perfect."
The Top 20 Use Cases for Claude
Chat vs. Cowork vs. Code, Decoded
There are three Claudes and most people only use one. This is the map: the 20 jobs people get the most value from, each matched to the right surface (Chat for one-offs, Cowork for scheduled and in-your-voice work, Code for building). Every use case ships with a copy-paste prompt and the 30-second rule for picking the right Claude every time.
Get Dangerously Good with Claude
0 to Hero in 6 Levels
The 6 habits that separate people getting 10x out of Claude from everyone else, in order, no technical background needed. RCCF prompting, project memory and CLAUDE.md, Cowork, reusable Skills, MCP connectors, and Claude Code. Includes 3 copy-paste prompts and a 7-day plan that takes you from treating Claude like a chatbot to running autonomous agents.
Claude for Small Business: All 15 Skills
The 15 Pre-Built Workflows, Decoded
Anthropic just dropped 15 ready-to-run agentic workflows for small business inside Claude Cowork. Every skill broken down by category, the software each one connects to (QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, DocuSign, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365), the 5-step install, and the four skills worth running first for the fastest cash and time wins. Plus the 10+ city free workshop tour with a Claude Max month included.
5 Claude Setup Moves
Day-One Settings That 10x Your Claude
The 5 in-app settings to flip on in your first 20 minutes with the Claude desktop app. Personal context template, memory toggle, the writing-style extraction prompt that makes Claude write in your voice, 5 starter projects everyone should create, and the 4 connectors to enable first. Most people skip every single one. Flip them and Claude stops feeling like a chatbot.
Claude Code Day One
5 Setup Moves Before You Build Anything
The 30-minute setup that turns Claude Code from a chatbot into an agent that performs. Copy-paste CLAUDE.md template, the plan-mode forcing prompt, the phased-build prompt, the .env pattern that keeps your keys out of chat, and the prompt that turns any working session into a reusable skill. Five moves, all copy-paste, all working.
Run Claude Code For Free
Same CLI, Free Open Source Models
A 26,000-star GitHub proxy reroutes Claude Code through free open source models (NVIDIA NIM, OpenRouter, Kimi, DeepSeek, Ollama). Same CLI, same workflow, around 90 percent of the quality, costing zero. The 6-step install, the 7 model picks that actually hold up for coding, the pro move to mix providers per tier, and how to enable the native model picker so you can swap free models mid-session.
The Autonomous AI Roadmap
Audit, Optimize, Automate — Ship Your First Agent
Autonomous AI just hit and 84% of users are still typing into ChatGPT. The AOA framework picks the one task in your week worth automating, surfaces the context every human assumes but every agent needs, and points you at the right execution layer (Claude Code, Hermes, or OpenClaw). Includes the copy-paste build prompt that walks you through the whole thing end-to-end, plus 5 starter workflows ranked by payoff speed.
The 10-Minute Motion Graphic
Two Prompts. One Animated Reel.
The 2-step framework for AI-generated short-form motion graphics. Style a static image with one prompt. Animate it with a second. Out comes a 9:16 motion graphic ready for Reels, TikTok, or Shorts in under 10 minutes. Both copy-paste prompt templates, 5 plug-and-play styles (grid paper, whiteboard, neon poster, watercolor, retro print), the tool stack ranked by reliability, and the 3 troubleshooting fixes for when the animation reverses, drifts, or garbles text.
The Hermes Agent Setup Guide
Install the Fastest-Growing AI Agent in 5 Minutes
The fastest project in GitHub history to hit 100,000 stars. Built by Nous Research. 40+ tools and the most popular skills pre-installed, built-in SQLite memory that compounds across sessions, and OpenRouter integration that cut one user's token spend by 90%. Inside: what Hermes actually is vs. Claude Code and OpenClaw, the one-command install, the first 5 prompts to run on day one, and the 3 skills to install first (Obsidian, Honcho memory, G-Stack).
The AI Second Brain Blueprint
Build It Yourself or Sell It for $5K
Two paths to a real AI second brain. Path A is Obsidian + Claude Code on your laptop for $20 a month. Path B is Hermes Agent on a $9 VPS that you chat with from Telegram. Plus the picks-and-shovels service play. The wedge offer pricing, the 4-day delivery flow, and the ICP most likely to pay tomorrow. The moat their competitors are not building.
Top 5 Skills to Install in the Claude Desktop App
5 Copy-Paste Prompts, 1 Smarter Claude
The 5 skills that turn Claude Desktop from a chatbot into a thinking partner. Skill-creator (Anthropic-official), grill-me (stress-tests any decision in 5 rounds), stop-slop (kills generic AI writing), session-handoff plus resume (continuity between sessions), and memory (cross-session learning). Copy-paste prompt for each.
The Stupid Simple Website Workflow
Ship a Website in Under an Hour
The 21-minute live build video plus the 7-phase written companion behind swimwithaubrey.com. Every prompt I used with Nano Banana Pro, Gemini, Claude Design, and Claude Code, plus the 5 iteration prompts that fix 90% of Claude Design v1 issues. 170 bookings in 7 hours, all-in cost ~$32.
Build an AI Second Brain
The 30-Minute Karpathy Method
Andrej Karpathy tweeted the concept and 41,000 people bookmarked it. Almost none of them are gonna build it. Here is the 30-minute version with the 3-folder architecture, the CLAUDE.md template you can fill in tonight, and the one prompt that turns 30 raw documents into an organized wiki Claude can actually think with. Replaces a $5K to $15K per month fractional Chief of Staff for $20.
170 Bookings. 16 Hours.
The 5-Tool Funnel That Sold Out a Summer
How I built my sister a marketing funnel that booked 70% of her entire summer in 16 hours from one organic Facebook post. No ads, no agency, no email sequence. Adobe Express, Claude Design, Claude Code, Vercel, Namecheap, Square. Plus the meta-prompt that turns Claude Code into a Claude Design prompt engineer.
The Apify 101 Guide for Claude
Connect Claude to Anything on the Internet
The most slept-on AI tool right now. Apify lets Claude scrape TikTok, Instagram, Google Maps, Reddit, X, and thousands of other sources in real time. Five-minute MCP setup, the copy-paste prompt that wires up your API token without ever exposing it, and 7 use cases you can run tomorrow.
The 4 Secret Content Weapons
The Stack Top Creators Quietly Run
The four tools running behind every creator who is growing fast right now. Last 30 Days skill for research, Apify for scraping, Supabase for the data layer, plus the meta-prompt that builds your own custom hook writer skill. Setup walkthrough for each, the SQL Claude writes for you, and the full loop wired together.
The Higgsfield MCP Playbook
31+ AI Models From One Claude Code Install
One MCP install gives Claude Code one-shot access to 30+ AI image and video models including Nano Banana, GPT image 2, Flux, Veo, and Kling. Five-minute setup plus 8 copy-paste use cases for ads, carousels, hero images, thumbnails, and b-roll. Includes the daily content automation framework.
The Creative MCP Stack
4 MCPs That Replace Your Whole Creative Team
One copy-paste prompt installs four MCPs that turn Claude into a video editor, designer, database, and component library. Remotion, Google Stitch, Supabase, and Magic by 21st.dev. Plus the prerequisites checklist, troubleshooting tips, and a starter prompt for each.
All 35 Claude Skills I Use
The Full Working Stack, Categorized
Every Claude skill I run my content, copy, and ops on. 35 skills across 6 categories with a one-sentence description each. The pattern is more useful than the names, so you can steal the structure whether you install them or build your own.
The Chief Agent Officer Playbook
Become the AI Hire Every Fortune 500 Will Make
The 5-step playbook to become your own Chief Agent Officer. Anthropic's free certification path, the AOA framework to audit your role, a copy-paste audit prompt that ranks your top 5 automations by hours saved, and the loud-portfolio playbook that gets you noticed.
Design Any Landing Page with Claude Design
The Workflow That Replaced Website Designers
The exact workflow for designing landing pages with Claude Design. Three to five reference screenshots, one Chrome extension, and a copy-paste prompt that produces production-ready designs in under an hour. Includes the master prompt, the reference rules, and the one-click tweak that fixes most layout issues.
The Caveman Skill for Claude Code
Same Brain, 75% Fewer Tokens
Install a Claude Code plugin in 60 seconds. Claude starts talking like a caveman: same technical answers, same fixes, same code, about 75% less text around them. Includes 6 intensity levels, 4 sub-skills for commits, reviews, and CLAUDE.md compression, and a cheat sheet of every command.
The Complete Claude Skills Guide
Install, Build, and the 5 Best Use Cases
Install Anthropic's Skill Creator on Claude.ai, Cowork, or Claude Code. Build your first skill in 15 minutes. Plus the 5 ranked use cases that actually pay off, with real examples from a working skill library.
Your First Claude Routine
An AI Employee That Works While You Sleep
The 10-minute setup for a Claude routine that runs on Anthropic's cloud while your laptop is closed. The exact copy-paste prompt, every click walked through, and three upgrades to try once your first one is live. Every weekday at 8 AM, a fresh briefing lands in your GitHub before you wake up.
The 3 MCP Starter Pack
Turn Claude Into a Machine in 6 Minutes
Install the three MCP servers that change how Claude works: Perplexity for live research, Nano Banana for image generation, Apify for web scraping. Full setup for Claude Code and Claude Desktop, plus 9 tested copy-paste prompts.
Your Obsidian + Claude Code Starter
One Prompt, Full Second Brain
Paste one prompt into Claude Code. It scaffolds 9 folders, 4 navigation hubs, 5 templates, and a working inbox-sweep skill, then interviews you to fill it with your brand voice, projects, and context. Your AI remembers you from the next session on.
Build a Landing Page in 2 Minutes
1 Skill, 1 Prompt, 1 Live Page
Day 2 of the AI for Dummies series. Install one Claude skill, feed it reference images, and get a production-ready landing page built on Astro in 2 minutes. Includes the full copy-paste prompt.
AI for Dummies, Day 1: Your First Day With Claude
Set Up Claude in 10 Minutes
Day 1 of the AI for Dummies series. The 3 setup steps, a copy-paste prompt that onboards Claude to who you are in 5 minutes, and 3 specific things to try this week. Zero jargon, zero technical background required.
15 AI Tips Nobody Told You
Insider Tips for Exponentially Better Outputs
15 things I do every day to get 10x better outputs from any AI tool. Most take less than 60 seconds to implement. Works on Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any tool you're already using.
Build Your First AI Agent with Managed Agents
From Zero to Deployed in One Sitting
Anthropic just launched Managed Agents. This guide covers what it is, who's already using it (Notion, Sentry, Asana, Rakuten), and three ways to get your first agent running today. No infrastructure code required.
How I Built an AI Hook Writer
The Architecture Behind Scroll-Stopping Hooks
The 3-step formula, 5 enhancers, and data layer behind a Claude skill that writes hooks using competitor data and proven formulas. Build your own or grab the ready-made version.
Build a Competitor Intelligence System
Track What Your Competitors Are Posting
A 5-layer content intelligence pipeline that scrapes competitor Instagram Reels, transcribes hooks, classifies patterns, and surfaces what's working. Same architecture works for TikTok and YouTube. Built with Claude Code.
Perplexity MCP for Claude Code
Live Web Search in Two Steps
By default, Claude has no idea what happened last week. The Perplexity MCP fixes that. Two steps, one command, and Claude can search the live web while it works with you.
100 Secret Claude Codes
Prompt Prefixes That Change Everything
100 prompt prefixes and modifiers organized into 10 decks. Add one word before or after any prompt and get a completely different response.
Every Claude Code Slash Command
The Complete Reference Guide
Every slash command, what it does, and a pro tip for each one. Organized by category with a quick-reference card at the bottom.
5 Claude Skills That Run My Content System
0 to 3.5k Followers in 30 Min/Day
The exact 5 Claude Code skills behind 3.5k TikTok followers and 100+ email subscribers.
Claude Code Source Leak: 5 Hidden Features
What Was Actually in the Code
Anthropic accidentally shipped their entire source code to npm. 512,000 lines. Here are the 5 features that were hiding inside.
Claude Cowork: The 7-Step Starter Pack
Setup in the Right Order
The setup sequence that turns Cowork from "interesting chatbot" to "I can't run my business without this."
Claude Code Channels
Text Your Agent from Anywhere
The new Claude Code feature that lets you message your running session from Telegram, Discord, or iMessage. Text it a task. It replies.
5 Claude Plugins You Can Sell for $1,000-$5,000/Month
Build Once, Sell to Many
No coding required. Here are the 5 most sellable Claude plugins right now, plus the math on what one plugin earns you in year one.
Turn Obsidian Into Your JARVIS with Claude Code
The 10-Minute Vault Setup
Point Claude Code at your Obsidian vault and turn your second brain into an AI that actually knows your work.
10 Openclaw Workflows To Install This Weekend
Autopilot for Your Inbox, Calendar & Finances
Pre-built agent workflows that run on autopilot. Check bills, find forgotten subscriptions, track packages, and more. Copy-paste system prompts included.
The One Prompt to Hyper-Personalize Your AI
Build a Personal Profile Your AI Actually Reads
The exact prompt that teaches your AI who you are so every conversation starts with full context. Includes the daily drip system.
Build an AI Company in 5 Minutes
Paperclip - AI Agent Management
The free, open-source tool that hit 1.6M views in one week. It turns every AI agent you already use into a real company with an org chart, budgets, and one dashboard.
Google Workspace CLI + Claude Code
Control Your Google Apps with AI
Google released a free CLI that connects Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Docs, and more to Claude Code via MCP. Two-minute setup.
The Only 4 AI Tools You Actually Need
Claude, Claude Code, Gemini Suite & Wispr Flow
Most people are using one AI tool. Here's the full stack: cheat sheet for all four tools, complete breakdowns, and the insight most people miss.
NotebookLM MCP Setup Guide
Zero-Hallucination AI Research
Connect Claude directly to Google NotebookLM and eliminate hallucinated APIs forever. 5-minute setup, citation-backed answers.
The Non-Coder's First Day with Claude Code
From Zero to Your First AI Project
The exact steps from my viral TikTok tutorial (33K+ views) expanded into a complete guide. Claude Code running in under 30 minutes.
50 Ways to Use Claude Cowork Right Now
Claude Cowork Use Cases
50 use cases organized by category. File management, finances, research, content creation, and more. Each one with step-by-step instructions.
Playwright MCP Starter Kit
AI-Powered Browser Automation
Set up Playwright MCP in 30 seconds and start automating your browser with AI. Includes setup guides plus 10 copy-paste automation prompts.
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