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Claude Code examples: 49 real use cases with prompts

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Includes cases labeled Claude Code (48), Claude Code for web (1). Each case keeps the label its source used.

  • Christopher Johnson built a Claude Code skill in about twenty minutes to act as a travel agent, sorting flights and places to stay for a business trip. Asked for real prices, it gave ranges, such as 'Flights typically run $280 to $420', and none of them was a price they could actually pay. Claude explained that the booking sites load prices with JavaScript after the page renders, which its tools couldn't see, so it had been estimating. With the Claude in Chrome extension installed and the same skill and request, it opened the sites and returned three specific places to stay with current prices and direct links. It was slower and used more of the plan's usage limits. They kept 'Act without asking' off, and Claude never bought anything.

    Claude Code, Claude in Chrome · Travel · Source date:

  • Nikunj Kothari's daughter had just started kindergarten, and the daily meal was posted on a website with messy, unstructured data. Kothari asked Claude Code to find the site's API by looking at its network requests; it turned out to be unauthenticated, and Claude Code worked out the right format and handed it to the family's existing Hermes bot. Now their home bot tells them each morning what's for breakfast and lunch so they can pack food to match.

    Claude Code · Personal · Source date:

  • Kin Meng Sio launched 4 Claude Code agents to go through 4 booking flows for the same Tokyo hotel and dates (no breakfast, June 13–15) all the way to the final confirmation page, with coupons applied, taxes added and currency holds calculated. It took five minutes while the agents controlled their browsers; it used to take an hour of tab-switching. Booking direct would have cost $93 more than Agoda and had the worst cancellation policy of the four: sliding 40/50/100% fees within 3 days, while every online travel agency offered free cancellation. They booked Agoda at $192.27. Earlier the same week, the AI had caught a $702 drop fee on a car rental.

    Claude Code · Travel · Source date:

  • After a vet visit found a new heart murmur in his 13-year-old dog, a poster asked his always-on Claude Code assistant (via iMessage) to read the vet's records and estimate. He says it summarised the findings, explained each estimate line, found the insurance policy in years of email, worked out the tests would be 90% covered after the deductible, spotted that the vet might support direct pay, and sent the vet an email asking, copying his wife.

    Claude Code · Personal · Source date:

  • Claude Code read four weeks of the poster's workout logs, found where lifts stalled, wrote the next training cycle with a reason for each starting weight, loaded the routines into the tracking app, and noted where the app would suggest the wrong weight.

    Claude Code · Personal · Source date:

  • Shop for cheaper home insurance quotes with Claude Code and ChromeRecreated promptEvidence: Described by poster

    Using the poster's coverage details and access to Chrome, Gmail and the existing policy, Claude Code sought quotes from about a dozen insurers and found two strong candidates; the poster says they were approved by AAA at $3,100/year, a $4,600/year saving.

    Poster says:$4,600/year saved

    Claude Code, Claude in Chrome · Personal · Source date:

  • With Google Ads, Google Analytics and the Webflow site connected to a Claude Code project, the poster adds negative keywords quickly, tracks ad performance, and found that mobile wasn't converting because the page showed nothing relevant above the fold.

    Claude Code · Marketing · Source date:

  • Screen and clear an email inbox in one pass with Claude CodeRecreated promptEvidence: Described by poster

    The poster runs all email in Claude Code: in one pass it screened 27 emails, archived and unsubscribed, and sent sub-agents after the three that needed real thought.

    Claude Code · Personal · Source date:

  • Prepare an Indian income tax return (ITR-3) with Claude CodeRecreated promptEvidence: Described by poster

    Given tax documents and a year of bank statements, Claude Code reconciled the figures against the poster's AIS (annual information statement), caught 2 mistakes that could have triggered notices, and computed the tax; the poster then filed.

    Poster says:2 mistakes caught

    Claude Code · Ops · Source date:

  • Claude Code reads each scraped company's website and checks it against the poster's ideal customer profile, dropping about 30% of leads before outreach; the poster says reply rates roughly doubled and they booked 100+ meetings in 3 months.

    Poster says:100+ meetings booked in 3 months

    Claude Code · Marketing · Source date:

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