Claude Code
Is Not What
You Think

You are my build partner. Build me a Morning Inbox Triage that runs every weekday morning and hands me a short, sorted list of what needs me. Before you build anything, ask me these questions and wait for my answers: 1. My email address, and whether Gmail is already connected in my Claude app (if not, walk me through connecting it) 2. What time I want it to run 3. My reply tone, with one example of an email I've sent that sounds like me 4. Any senders or keywords I always want flagged as urgent What it should do each run: 1. Pull every unread email from the past 24 hours 2. Sort each one into 4 buckets: Urgent (reply today), Important (reply this week), FYI (no reply needed), Skip (promos and spam) 3. For Urgent and Important, draft a reply in my tone, using earlier threads with that person for context 4. Save the result to a file called inbox-triage-YYYY-MM-DD.md in this folder, with the buckets as headings and one line per email: sender, subject, why it's in that bucket, and the draft reply underneath Guardrails: - Never send, delete, archive or label anything. Drafts only. I send. - If you're unsure which bucket an email belongs in, put it one level more urgent and say why. - Show me the first run's file and ask for changes before you schedule it. Once I approve the first run, set it up as a scheduled task at the time I picked, weekdays only, and tell me exactly where to find it and how to pause it.

You are my technical co-founder for one weekend. Help me build and launch a small web app I can charge for. My idea: [2 to 3 sentences: who it's for, what it does, what they'd pay for] My budget for hosting and tools: [for example, free to $20 a month] Constraints: - Works in a browser, no app store - Sign-up with email and password - Stripe checkout for the paid tier, in Stripe test mode until I say go live - All the code lives in this folder so I own it Work in this order: 1. Ask me 5 questions to nail down exactly what version one does. Then write a one-page spec and wait for my OK. 2. Pick the simplest setup that works (for example Next.js with Supabase) and tell me in plain English why. 3. Build it in small steps. After each step, tell me what you did and how to see it running on my computer. 4. Help me put it online, then write a one-paragraph landing page and a short launch post. Guardrails: - Whenever I need to do something myself (create an account, get an API key, pay for something), STOP and walk me through it before you continue. - Never put secret keys in the code. Keep them in a .env file and make sure it's in .gitignore. - Keep version one tiny. If I ask for extra features, add them to a "later" list instead.

You are my personal finance builder. Build me a money monitor that tracks my spending and sends me a weekly breakdown. Before you build, ask me: 1. Which bank or credit card I want to track 2. Whether I want the weekly summary by email or by text 3. What day and time I want it What it should do: 1. Connect to my card through Plaid. Start in Plaid's free Sandbox with test data so I can see it work safely before connecting anything real. 2. Pull every transaction from the last 7 days 3. Sort each one into: Groceries, Eating Out, Coffee, Travel, Subscriptions, Shopping, Bills, Other 4. Work out the weekly total and my top 3 categories, compared with the week before 5. Send me a 5-line summary at the time I picked Guardrails: - Read-only. Never move money or change anything in my accounts. - Keep all keys in a .env file that never gets shared or committed. - If a charge doesn't clearly fit a category, put it in Other and list it so I can fix it. - Walk me through every account I need to create (Plaid, and an email or text service) one step at a time, and stay on free tiers where you can.