What we built, tested and verified this week — n8n workflows, MCP configs, Claude Code, and the open-source agent repos worth your time. Every claim is checked against the actual files.
Claude Code is marketed as a coding tool, but under the hood it is a general-purpose assistant that can read files, run commands, and work through multi-step tasks on your computer. Here is how a founder with zero programming background can use it to organise files, clean spreadsheets, summarise research, and automate the admin work that eats their week — with the exact prompts and configs we verified.
We hand-verified 12 MCP server configs for Claude Desktop and ranked them by daily usefulness. Exact JSON, key requirements, Windows and Mac install steps, and fixes for the three failures that break most setups.