You Need To Change How You Use Your Claude Code Sessions
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00:00:00If you are only using Claude Code for coding, you are missing out on so many other things
00:00:04Claude can do, and way better than you would have thought.
00:00:07The reason people have been shipping insane products with it comes down to how good its
00:00:11agent system and harness are.
00:00:13But even though that harness was designed to work with code, we started fitting it into
00:00:17workflows it was never meant for.
00:00:18And it worked so well not only for us but for everyone else as well, that now Claude Code
00:00:23is being used for almost everything, whether it's code or not.
00:00:26With the right agent skills and markdown setup, Claude Code stops being just a coding tool
00:00:30and starts running your day to day.
00:00:32So in this video, we are going through multiple unexpected ways you can use Claude Code that
00:00:37have nothing to do with coding.
00:00:39If you're someone who finds the idea of a second brain exhausting because you have to maintain
00:00:43everything in dedicated files, which gets hectic, you can just use Claude Code for that.
00:00:47You can set up your second brain on Obsidian, where you can track all your tasks and everything.
00:00:52Obsidian works because of its markdown file based system and lightweight nature, and all
00:00:56the data stays organized in markdown files locally.
00:00:59Obsidian helps because its graph visualization shows which things depend on others, which
00:01:03makes analyzing dependencies easier.
00:01:05To manage it, you can set up a Claude.md file to guide Claude on how to use the setup.
00:01:10The Claude.md is what actually drives the whole system.
00:01:13We previously created a video on how to set up Claude.md for coding projects, but for this
00:01:18kind of project there are no technical instructions, so some of the instructions may not apply,
00:01:23but the other instructions still apply.
00:01:25You need to start with the project description, and all the rules are organized according
00:01:28to priority.
00:01:29First the hard rules, which are non-negotiable, then the medium priority rules, and finally
00:01:33the low priority ones containing key references.
00:01:36Now with this in place instead of manually looking through files, you can just prompt
00:01:40Claude and it will search through the second brain, find the required document, and answer
00:01:44your questions from there.
00:01:46You can also make edits and updates through Claude code while conversing, so anything you
00:01:50are unsure of goes into the second brain only after you've finalized it through discussion
00:01:54with Claude.
00:01:55You can also create videos in Claude code using the Remotion skill, which renders product
00:01:59videos just by prompting the AI agent.
00:02:01For using Remotion inside Claude code, you just have to install it using the npx command.
00:02:06When you install it, you have to select which project you want to install, and then install
00:02:10the skill as well.
00:02:11Once that's done, run the dev server, and the initial template of the version you selected
00:02:15will load.
00:02:16This very skill is actually the one that the marketing team at Anthropic uses in their own
00:02:20product demo videos with immersive animations.
00:02:23Using it is simple.
00:02:24Just open the project in Claude code and give it a prompt describing in detail what you want
00:02:28to build, down to the specifics of the exact cuts and how the sequence should proceed, so
00:02:32you get the video done right.
00:02:34It's going to get the plan confirmed by you, and once you approve the design, it will start
00:02:38implementing it in the video.
00:02:39It also takes a lot of time to create the animation.
00:02:42For example, a 50 second clip can take more than 20 minutes with iterations.
00:02:46The animation built for the product will be tailored exactly to what you described.
00:02:49For simplistic animations with text and SVG visuals, as used in most product videos, Remotion
00:02:55is able to do it on its own pretty well because it's just a sequence of code that is animated.
00:02:59But to make videos even better, you need to give it other assets that it can rely on to
00:03:03enhance the animation.
00:03:04With the right assets, you can produce professional animations quickly.
00:03:08You can build a multi-step research pipeline in Claude code that grounds every claim in
00:03:12a real source instead of hallucinating.
00:03:14If you've tried researching with Claude about something specifically not in its training
00:03:18data, you might have come across Claude hallucinating facts.
00:03:21Then you have to cross validate its claims and only to find out that what it claimed was
00:03:25made up.
00:03:26To avoid this frustration, you can create an automation for research in a systematic manner.
00:03:30With this pipeline, you can ask Claude to research by following a structured workflow and combining
00:03:35research, verification, drafting and all other stages into one proper workflow.
00:03:39The instructions that guide this workflow reside in the Claude.md file which contains how to
00:03:44use each file and how the whole pipeline looks, with all the information needed for Claude
00:03:48to ensure that it utilizes all the files and conducts research accordingly.
00:03:52You can set up these steps each written as its own MD file.
00:03:56Each file represents a step containing the inputs, the expected output, the procedure
00:04:00and the acceptance criteria for that step.
00:04:02The sources and drafts get their own folder which is a place for Claude code to keep the
00:04:06notes it takes and then the final document resides in the final folder.
00:04:10For using it, you can add an instruction in Claude.md to trigger the workflow by your prompt.
00:04:15So upon your prompt for a research task, it starts by going through the files mentioned
00:04:19in Claude.md and follows all the steps one by one.
00:04:22Once Claude has taken the research topic through all the steps one by one, it will use the
00:04:26document skill to combine a final document in both an MD and a PDF which you can share
00:04:31later.
00:04:32The final document will be properly referenced at the end of the report.
00:04:35This makes researching much better because Claude has already gone through the cross-verifying
00:04:39process, making the research more credible.
00:04:41Now if you've ever tried scraping live search data, you know it's a pain.
00:04:45Captures, proxies and breaking layouts make it impossible to scale and that's exactly
00:04:49what SERP API handles for you.
00:04:51It gives you clean, structured search results from Google, YouTube, Bing and more through
00:04:56a simple API call.
00:04:57You send one request and get back a clean JSON object with exactly the data you need.
00:05:01No scraping infrastructure, no maintenance, just real-time data on demand.
00:05:05So if you're building an AI agent that needs live search data or a research tool that pulls
00:05:10peer-reviewed articles from Google Scholar or a news monitoring dashboard or even training
00:05:14machine learning models with classified image data from the web, SERP API just works.
00:05:19It has over 99.9% uptime, responses come back in about 1 second.
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00:05:32the QR code on your screen.
00:05:34Now if Claude was able to watch videos it would be much effective because you can ask
00:05:37questions from the video directly.
00:05:39Gemini is capable of watching videos and lets you ask questions about the video.
00:05:43But copying findings from Gemini to Claude code is an overhead because Claude code contains
00:05:48the project's context.
00:05:49Now one option might be getting the transcript of the video and asking Claude questions related
00:05:53to the video but it is a bit troublesome.
00:05:55You can't show the visuals of what was actually shown in the video and it relies only on assumptions
00:06:00which tend to be wrong often.
00:06:01You have to correct it by taking a screenshot so it knows what was being shown in the video
00:06:06at that moment.
00:06:07Now for this exact thing someone came out with a skill called Claude video.
00:06:10It basically gives Claude the ability to watch any videos whether hosted or downloaded.
00:06:14You can install it by running the add Claude marketplace commands.
00:06:18Once the plugin has been added you can search the watch skill and add this for your project.
00:06:22Once you reload the plugins you will be able to use the watch skill.
00:06:25The watch skill will be available for you which contains multiple hooks and all the details
00:06:29needed.
00:06:30You can use the skill in Claude code and pass it the location of the video you want Claude
00:06:33to go through.
00:06:34It could be the file path or the URL of the video.
00:06:37On your first run it will run the setup.
00:06:39It will set up the basic packages needed for it to run and once it has done that you can
00:06:43select whichever API key you want to use.
00:06:46There are multiple options like whisper and other voice models.
00:06:49Amongst them grok is better because it is fast and has a really good free tier and it contains
00:06:53multiple models that you can access with just one API.
00:06:57Once you've pasted in your API key it is ready to be used.
00:07:00It works by running code that extracts the frames from the video and converts them into
00:07:04a sequence then gets the transcript and maps it to the exact frames and gives that to Claude
00:07:08for analysis.
00:07:09Then Claude will be able to summarize all of the findings directly from the video.
00:07:13With the skill it is now able to see the visuals which it couldn't do without the skill and
00:07:18it summarizes all the noticeable visuals it finds.
00:07:21Claude code has already been proven to work really well in design, especially with the
00:07:25release of opus 4.7.
00:07:27It can create multiple SVGs that are much improved in quality compared to previous models which
00:07:32makes its design much better in quality.
00:07:34But this capability is not only limited to UIs.
00:07:37You can also design other things like posters, social media posts and other infographics using
00:07:42Claude code.
00:07:43You just need to install the canvas design skill which is an official skill by anthropic
00:07:47so you don't have to worry about the process it takes to implement the designs.
00:07:51Once you've installed this skill, you'll have access to all of the resources and instructions.
00:07:55It will have a whole library of fonts installed as well which Claude can directly use.
00:08:00It follows a systematic process by first identifying the idea and then creates the design philosophy
00:08:05document for the idea containing the style to go for with this design.
00:08:09This is what it uses to create the designs.
00:08:11So if you give it a prompt to create any visualization, it will first load the skill and start by creating
00:08:16a design philosophy file that you can view.
00:08:19This file actually resides in your project folder and contains the whole style it is aiming
00:08:23to follow along with all of the visual details documented.
00:08:26Then it creates a script which basically generates the design entirely using code.
00:08:30Once it has done that, it will create the visual by generating SVGs and making it visually balanced.
00:08:35You can create multiple designs from it like a poster and it will follow the right dimensions
00:08:40and implement the same design philosophy it has identified into the poster as well.
00:08:44If you think there are any issues in the design, you can iterate over it.
00:08:48In our case, it did not pick the font size correctly which made it hard to read.
00:08:52So you can re-prompt it with the changes you want it to make.
00:08:54Upon prompting, it will update the python file and make the changes there.
00:08:58And once it has made the changes in the code, it will run the code and save the updated file
00:09:03with all the changes reflected properly.
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00:09:13You can consolidate a content system that is spread across Notion or multiple places using Claude code
00:09:18by setting up clear instructions on how to manage everything properly.
00:09:22Since the content system on Notion is shared, you can instead run it locally with Claude
00:09:26code so that it can manage which information should go to Notion and which should not.
00:09:30You can also use notebook LM with a few grounded sources so Claude can query it directly using
00:09:34the notebook LM CLI tool, connect it with your account and let Claude query from it.
00:09:39Using notebook LM is helpful because it has multiple features like creating videos, slides,
00:09:44mind maps and podcasts from the information, making it easier to create and use content.
00:09:49Notebook LM queries your information directly from a single source, instead of Claude having
00:09:53to go through multiple files and consolidate information, which would waste tokens and time.
00:09:58So you can let Claude query things from notebook LM instead.
00:10:01In your content system, you can have multiple steps and sources, along with a Claude.md file
00:10:06that contains instructions on how to use this system and how to respond when the user asks
00:10:10any question.
00:10:11Now with all the setup in place and the Notion MCP connected, you can directly talk to Claude
00:10:16code and it will update everything in the required places.
00:10:19Aside from these, you can assign Claude code a particular role and make it work in that
00:10:23capacity as well.
00:10:24You can use Claude code for multiple roles and create workflows around that specific role.
00:10:29For example, if you are managing your finances, you can use Claude code with all the data and
00:10:33setup files in the project folder.
00:10:34If you are doing so on Notion, you can also connect it via MCP so Claude can directly access
00:10:40the data from there.
00:10:41With this setup, you can ask any questions you'd normally ask a finance manager, such
00:10:45as analyzing the direction of your finances.
00:10:47It will gather data from multiple CSV files or Notion and then create a report for you
00:10:52along with suggestions based on that.
00:10:54You can also treat Claude code as a teacher and add your preferences, study style and progress
00:10:59files for tracking learning progress.
00:11:01So in case you're stuck on any topic, you can just ask Claude about it and it will explain
00:11:05it from multiple perspectives including introducing new concepts, diving deeper into what you've
00:11:10already studied or generating quizzes based on previous knowledge.
00:11:13You can also set up a role as a legal advisor that analyzes your documents for legal issues.
00:11:17When you pass any document, it will run a review against all the guidelines you've provided
00:11:22in the project folder, flag all issues in the file and highlight the highest priority issues
00:11:27as well as medium priority issues.
00:11:29You can also use Claude code as a data analyst and use it to manage multiple datasets from
00:11:33CSVs or other formats and generate reports so you can analyze where the data stands and
00:11:38where it doesn't.
00:11:39This helps you make decisions more effectively and you can use Claude similarly for multiple
00:11:43other purposes as well.
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