How to do it with an AI agent
Real commands for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Grok Bot, taken from the official docs, with the gotchas and the loadout for each job. Checked 2026-10-26.
How to post on X
Connect your agent to the X API through xmcp, the official X MCP server, then ask it to draft posts and only publish after you approve.
How to read and Send Gmail
In Claude Code, connect Gmail as a claude.ai connector and it shows up automatically.
How to scrape a Website
Add the Firecrawl MCP server to your agent with your Firecrawl API key, then ask it to scrape or crawl specific URLs into clean markdown or JSON.
How to browse the Web
Install Microsoft's Playwright MCP server and your agent can open pages, click, type and read what is on screen.
How to answer Phone Calls
Phone calls need a voice platform such as Vapi or Retell AI.
How to book Appointments
Give your agent calendar access, then ask it to find open slots and draft invites for you to confirm.
How to use MCP Servers
An MCP server gives your agent a new set of tools.
How to add Skills
A skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file that tells the agent how to do one job.
How to run an Agent Locally with Ollama
Install Ollama, pull a model that supports tool calling, then run ollama launch claude or ollama launch codex.
How to automate a Daily Report
Run your agent headless on a schedule.
How to connect to GitHub
Use GitHub's official MCP server at https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/ with a fine-grained personal access token.
How to query a Database
Point your agent at a read-only database user through an MCP server.
How to build a Trading Bot
Use your coding agent to write and backtest a strategy in an open-source framework like Freqtrade, then run it in dry-run mode with fake money.
How to make Faceless YouTube Videos
Have your agent research and write the script, generate the voiceover through the ElevenLabs MCP server, then assemble visuals you have rights to.
How to summarize PDFs
Put the PDFs in your project folder, have the agent convert them to text with pdftotext from poppler, then ask for a summary that quotes page numbers.
How to work with Google Sheets and Excel
For Excel files, let the agent edit them in your project with Python and openpyxl.
How to review Pull Requests
Pipe the PR diff into your agent and ask for a review focused on bugs and security, or connect the GitHub MCP server so it can read the PR itself.
How to write SEO Blog Posts
Have the agent research what searchers want, outline from real sources, draft, and then you edit and fact check.
How to deploy a Website to Cloudflare
Create the project with npm create cloudflare@latest, have your agent build the site, then deploy with npx wrangler deploy.
How to take Meeting Notes
Get a transcript from your meeting app, save it to a file, and ask your agent for decisions, action items and owners.
FAQ
Which AI agents do these guides cover?
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Grok Bot. Each guide gives the steps for all four.
Are the commands tested?
Each page says so. Steps we ran ourselves say Tested. The rest say they were checked against the official docs, with the date.
Do I need to know how to code?
No for Grok Bot. Claude Code, Codex and Cursor need a terminal or editor, but you can copy the commands as written.