Claude Code for Non-Coders (In Under 30 Minutes)
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In this video I'll cover how to use
CloudCode as a non-coder, why I think
it's still the best tool for founders
that want to automate their business and
use it for tasks that actually have
nothing to do with coding, for example,
marketing, sales, operations, and so on.
I'll give you an overview of its most
important capabilities without going too
much into the nitty-gritty. And the goal
is that after this video you'll know
about 90% of everything there is to know
to use CloudCode effectively in just
under 20 minutes. And the reason I'm
making this video is I see a lot of
videos teaching Cloud Code on YouTube,
but it's mostly for coders. And also the
videos that are actually made for
non-coders are pretty much all outdated
because they typically show you how to
use the CLI version of CloudCode, which
is for coders. And what many don't know
is that there are actually now much more
user-friendly ways and easier ways to
use CloudCode. So, I'll get into all of
that. If you don't know who I am, my
name is Moritz. I'm a German engineer
with over 10 years experience in tech,
and I've built a software company to
over 200k in revenue, and now I help
business owners save time and scale by
building AI automations. So, let's dive
in. All right, here's an overview of
every topic I want to cover. I'll start
with the interface and setup, and then
we're going to go into what is actually
the difference between CloudCode and
some of the other tools out there. Then
I'll go into connections and tools,
which I think is the most important
thing to actually unlock CloudCode. Then
I'll go into skills and how to use them,
what they are, and so on. I'll go into
routines, which are essentially
automations. And finally, I'll go into
what are the mobile options and talk
about this a bit. Okay, so let's start
with interface and setup. And the first
thing we'll talk about here is basically
which interfaces are possible to to use
CloudCode from. And right now there are
three options, which is Cloud Desktop,
the CLI, and also through a plugin like
VS Code or Cursor or something like
that. And I'll show you each of those.
So, right now my preferred way of using
CloudCode is through the Cloud Desktop
app that you can see here. Just Google
for the Cloud Desktop app, download it,
and then you can see here, there's a
toggle between home, which is kind of
just like the normal Claude chat, and
also the integrated Claude co-working
here now. I'll go into the difference a
bit later. And then you can also switch
here to code, and uh this is how I use
my Claude code mostly now. And I'll tell
you why, but let me just show you the
other options. So, the other option here
is the CLI. So, you can see here, this
is like basically Claude code living
inside of the terminal. And as you can
see, it looks very technical already.
This is the kind of classic version of
Claude code, and this is, you know, what
gives it like this uh feeling that it's
mostly for coders. So, essentially, it's
a little program that you can open up
from your terminal, and then you can
start like typing and, you know,
chatting with it and getting it to do
stuff for you. So, this is how Claude
code was, you know, in its initial
version was being used, and how actually
a lot of people also still prefer using
it. If you're a developer, one of the
advantages of this is that it's a little
bit more lightweight, so it does feel a
bit snappier and faster. The end of day
though, the capabilities of using it
through the terminal version here
compared to the capabilities in the
desktop version are basically the same.
So, you know, the desktop version is
just a little bit more user-friendly.
Now, another way that people also like
to use it is through an IDE like Cursor
or VS Code or or something like that.
So, here you can see I've opened it up
in Cursor, and what you can do here or
what's the main difference here is that
it's inside of an IDE, you have this
view typically where it's like you can
see the folder that you're operating in.
So, you can see all of the files here.
I'm inside of the Claudia folder here,
this is just my custom folder where I
like operate all of my or most of my
Claude code sessions from. And I have
all of these files saved here, like the
the claude.md file, for example, and
when I click on it, it's opening it up
on the right side here. And then I can
switch between different files, so this
one, for example, and then it's opened
up here on the right side, and I can go
into it and, you know, do edits straight
away.
So, that's the benefit of this view. And
then you're kind of having Cloud Code
within this view as more like a Copilot
type of thing, where you can then chat
with it here. You can tag the files,
also, and it will like make edits for
you or or do whatever you want. Um so,
it's just a different way of creating
Cloud Code. The benefit here, as I
mentioned, is kind of that you basically
have the view into your files, and you
can make edits into your files a bit
more easily. Now, why do I prefer still
mostly just using it through the desktop
app is they've added a lot of
capabilities in the last few weeks,
where you can, even if you're editing
files, you can do it straight from the
app. So, let me show you. So, here, for
example, I had it create a file for me,
and then the file is linked here, and I
can click it, and it will open it up in
this kind of preview here on the right,
and then I can click this button, which
essentially allows me to also edit this
file directly inside of the Cloud
desktop app. So, that's pretty cool. And
I just think overall, using the desktop
app is kind of uh feels a bit more
user-friendly, and so I would say like
90 or 95% of my usage is through the
Cloud desktop app. Okay, next up is this
topic of working inside of a local
folder. So, what does this actually
mean? Now, the main difference between
if you use the Cloud chat in your
browser, same with ChatGPT, the chat
that you're probably used to using out
of the browser,
versus using Cloud Code is that Cloud
Code lives locally on your machine,
whereas Cloud chat, you can think of it
as basically in the internet. And so,
you can think of this like if you're
using, for example, Microsoft Word,
that's a program that is running on your
computer, and you're using that on your
computer, whereas if you're using Google
Docs, you're basically using it through
the browser, and it's, you know, living
on the internet, basically, right? So,
that's like a a simple way to explain
it. And the benefit of having Cloud Code
locally is that it basically has a bit
more power. It can take actions across
your computer, so it can do a lot of
things for you. For example, it can like
read a bunch of files and write a bunch
of files for you very quickly. So, these
are just some of the advantages there.
Now, what does this mean for you? So,
when you're using Cloud Code and you're
creating a new chat here, so when I
click on the plus, this basically opens
up a new chat, you'll see here a couple
of options. The first one is you can
select local or also you can select
something from the cloud options here. I
I won't go into that now because um we
want to just operate locally, so on your
machine, so have local selected. And
then here you can also select the folder
that it should operate from. And this
basically just means you have folders on
your machine. So, we're inside of my
home folder here. I have my finder
opened up. This is my home folder. And
then in that home folder, I have another
folder here called Claudia, which
basically is kind of like my home folder
for operating all of my or most of my
Cloud Code sessions from. When you're
starting out, it's totally fine to just
create one empty folder and just like
start from there. I kind of have it
optimized and I've set up a bunch of
files so that every time I talk to it,
it remembers things. I made another
video about this. It's called my Cloud
OS. You can check that out if you want
to do the same. But yeah, when you're
starting out, you can just create one
folder in your home folder and then just
make sure that this folder is selected
here. And um you can then start your
session, so start your chat from inside
of this folder. Now, this doesn't mean
that it's limited to this folder
necessarily. It just means that this is
the default folder that it operates the
chats out of. So, for example, if you
tell it to create a file, it will create
it inside of this folder. The file will
just like pop up inside of this folder.
But it still has the ability to look
outside of this folder. So, if I would
paste it the path to a different folder,
so for example here, I'll just go into a
different folder like coding projects
and then I'll take this one here and
copy the path, paste it into the chat.
It has the path to this different
folder. I can basically go, "Hey, go and
check out what is inside of this
folder." Hit enter and it has the
ability, even though it's kind of
starting the chat from within my Claudia
folder, it has the ability to go and
check out different folders. The other
little thing you should know about when
starting out is this topic around
permissions. So, basically they have
now, if you click here onto this button
here, just beneath the chat, you have a
couple of options and these are the
permissions. So, you can select between
manual, accept edits, plan, auto, bypass
permissions. And I would recommend to
just always have it on auto, on the auto
mode. Uh, it's one of the newer things
that they introduced a couple weeks ago,
I think, or maybe months. And this is
basically it decides when it should ask
you for permissions. Because what used
to be the problem in the past is that,
by default, I think it was manual. And
then, if you have it on manual, you
basically try to do things, for example,
read a file or write a file, and it
would always like have a pop-up here and
ask you whether it's allowed to do that.
And if you if it starts like doing that
a lot, then it gets very annoying and
slows you down. The other option here,
plan, this is more for I would say more
relevant when you're writing code. You
usually want to have a step before that
where you do like a big plan and then
execute on that plan. So, this is the
plan mode. I don't use it that much
anymore unless I'm, you know, coding big
features. But, since this video is more
about, you know, just using it for
everyday tasks in my business, I don't
really use that much. And then there's
also bypass permissions, which kind of
was what I was using before there was
auto mode. But, now that there's auto
mode, you can basically just put it on
auto and that ought to be the the better
and and easier way to go here. Okay, and
finally, just to get like all of the
basics out of the way is also your model
and context settings, which you can see
down here. So, here, if you press on
this button here, you can see you can
select between the models. Right now, as
of filming this, I usually just have it
on Opus 4.8 and have the fast mode here
enabled. Now, if I want to ask just like
some very basic questions or have it do
something really quickly, I will
sometimes also select Sonnet 5 or Haiku
because those are faster, they use less
tokens, but mostly I kind of just have
it on Opus 4.8 and have the fast mode
here. Fable 5, which is the new model
that they have, is very intelligent,
but, you know, for most of the things
that I'm doing with it, I really don't
need Fable 5, unless I'm doing something
that's like super con- complex or I want
it to like work by itself for a really
long time. And then the other selection
that you can make here is how much
effort it should be putting in. So, if
you don't need that much effort, you can
slide it here to low and then all the
way up. So, it just basically determines
how long it will think and how much
effort it will put into the task that
you're giving it. And I usually have it
somewhere in the middle here. When I
feel like it's something more important
that I want it to do, where I want to
make sure that the results should be
really good, then I'll just like
increase the effort a bit. And if it's
something less important, I um decrease
it, but usually I just have it here on
high. This seems to be like between high
and extra seems to be like the sweet
spot between it still being intelligent,
but still being fast enough for me to
operate on our tasks. Okay, and these
are pretty much the basics here. So, now
you can basically just start a new
session, which is just a new chat, and
you can start chatting with it here. And
it will go ahead and do things for you.
Let's jump into the next topic here.
Okay, next up, let's talk about this
topic briefly, which is something people
often ask and I think what uh gets
people confused is kind of like what is
it actually the difference between
Claude Code and some of the other tools
out there. And I think when you
understand this, you'll, you know,
understand much better like what Claude
Code actually is and how to use it. So,
the first one that people bring up is
what is the difference between Claude
Code and Claude Co-work and also just
the normal Claude Chat. So, let's start
with Claude Chat. Claude Chat is
essentially just, if I switch here into
the chat mode on the home tab, I can
just chat with it and I'll get answers
back. Okay, so that's essentially the
Claude Chat mode. And then there is
Co-work, which kind of is I can chat
with it and it can go and do things for
me. And, you know, in the co-work mode I
can also select like kind of this folder
for the context, and I can also connect
it to tools and so on, so it can do
things across those tools. So, it's
actually very similar to Claude Code,
but the main difference is that Claude
Code work, more or less, you can still
think of it as in a closed environment.
Basically, you can think of it like it's
in the cloud. Both of these are in the
cloud. Claude Chat is in the cloud.
Claude Code work is kind of also in the
cloud, more or less. You can add folders
for context that are local, and it can
write files locally. But, the main
difference is kind of that it's it's a
so-called sandboxed, which just means
it's kind of more closed off versus
Claude Code is it has like less shackles
around it. It's really just like on your
machine and basically do a lot of things
across your machine. So, I'd say Claude
Code is a bit more powerful. I will say
that as it is with software, like they
start out with one feature and then kind
of they add other features on top. I do
think that everything at some point is
kind of going to just become one, and
all of the capabilities will kind of
just merged, and it will be made easier
for the user to understand what what is.
Now, there's kind of this split between
the three different modes, and it's kind
of confusing. But, as of filming this
right now, my personal preference is to
just use Claude Code for most things
because it's still the most powerful.
But, I do think in the future, probably,
there will just be like one normal way
to use Claude, and there doesn't really
need to be like a difference between all
of these modes, and it can just do all
of the things for you. So, it's kind of
a bit of a temporary thing, but yeah,
right now, I think using Claude Code is
the best. Okay, and then you might ask,
"What is the difference between Claude
Code and Codex?" So, basically, Codex is
by OpenAI, and you know, it's a similar
story there. They they basically have
these like three different products,
which essentially, at the end of the
day, will all become the same thing, I
think. But, Codex was basically the
Claude Code version by OpenAI. And, what
they've done recently is they've
released this new desktop app, where you
can also select between ChatGPT work and
Codex. And they're basically the same
thing. Like they can do the same things
now. And within ChatGPT work, you can
now also just chat, which is kind of
just for like simple questions and
answers. So, this is like the classic
ChatGPT chat. And then the ChatGPT work
is now basically like you can, you know,
have it work for you and do stuff for
you across tools. Then Codex is
basically the same thing, but it's more
meant for coding, I guess. But again, I
think everything will just basically
become the same thing. Okay, now what is
the difference between tools like
CloudCode and tools like OpenClaw,
Hermes, and Victor? So, the main
difference is that tools like CloudCode,
you basically use it like this through
this application, and then you can chat
with it directly, and it will go and,
you know, do things for you right here.
You know, it's like the work that it's
doing is very close to where you're
actually chatting with it. Whereas, if
you use something like Victor, and I'll
show you how it looks like there. So,
when you use Victor, and it's pretty
much the same thing with OpenClaw and
Hermes, is that you're using it through
a chat application. So, in this case, I
would be using it through Slack. And the
way I interact with Victor, it's like
it's a bot inside of my Slack. So, I can
just say, "Hey." And then I'll tag
Victor. And once I do that, it will then
answer and, you know, see the message
and answer to that message. And then you
also have this like command center here
where you can go in and like manage
things like which tools it is connected
to, and you can also create skills and
so on. But the main difference is that
you're accessing it from a
communications platform like Slack,
Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp, and so on.
Okay, now and what is the difference
between CloudCode and automation tools
like n8n and Make? Okay, so n8n is an
automation tool. So, you can see here,
for example, it has this like a canvas
where you can like drop in modules, and
you can like configure these modules.
But I would say that tools like n8n and
Make are pretty much outdated by now
because all of the automations that you
can build here, you can build that also
with Cloud Code and you can do it in a
faster way. Whereas, you know, building
these like classic workflows just takes
much longer now. So, I think these are
pretty much outdated and if you want to
automate something, you can do it in
Cloud Code now. Okay, let's go into the
next topic of connections and tools. So,
basically what makes Cloud Code powerful
is that you can connect it to other
software tools and then have it do work
across those tools. So, easiest way to
do that is just basically through the
Cloud built-in marketplace. So, if you
click here on customize, it will open up
this window here. You can click on
connectors and then you'll see here
there are like a bunch of tools that
I've already connected and if you want
to add a new one, you basically just
click here browse connectors. And this
is the marketplace of all of tools that
are available that you can connect to
Cloud Code. Now, technically when you
connect these here, they're connected to
your Cloud
Cloud account, which has the benefit
that, you know, through if you're using
Co Work for example, these tools are
also connected. There are different ways
to make connections. This is just one of
them and I think this is the easiest
one. So, just stick to that for the
beginning. And the way it works is super
simple. So, let's say I want to connect
my Figma account. If I click here into
Figma, I can first like read through
what capabilities are. I can go here
into tools and I can see tools this
particular connection has. So, here you
can see it can generate diagrams, it can
get design contracts. So, here you can
get an idea of what this tool is capable
of doing or basically what this
connection is capable of of doing in the
tool that you're connecting. And then
when you want to connect it, you can
click on connect here and that will
usually open up the, you know, in this
case Figma, your Figma account and
you'll have to log into your account and
then it will be connected. Now, there's
also something called a custom
connector. If the tool is not inside of
this marketplace that I showed you just
now. It just means it's like not if in
the official marketplace, but it doesn't
necessarily mean that you cannot connect
it. So, for example, here you can see
from my list of the tools that I've
connected, there is Beehiiv here, which
is not in the marketplace, at least it
wasn't when I connected it.
But, if I go here into Google and type
Beehiiv MCP, the company actually does
have an MCP. Just the way to connect it.
And, you know, for for other companies
that also have an MCP, this will be a
similar way to do this. You basically
search for the MCP of that company. And,
in this case, okay, search for the
documentation on how to connect the MCP.
Usually, you know, the tools will have
something like that. And then, you want
to find a URL. So, in this case, for
Beehiiv, it's basically this URL here.
And then, you can just go into your
Cloud's code here and click on add
custom connector. And then, type in
Beehiiv. And then, you can paste the URL
here. And this way, you can add the
connection. And after that, it will show
up here. And then, again, you can click
on it and click connect. And then, it
will prompt you to to the login page.
And then, you can connect it to your
account. So, as I said, there are
different ways to connect tools. There's
also through CLI tools or just through
the API directly. But, I think when
you're starting out, the really easiest
way is to just do it through the MCP.
Another thing I want to mention here as
well is basically the ability for Cloud
Code to use the browser for you. Because
if certain tools that you want to
connect and have Cloud Code take actions
for you on those tools, if they don't
have an MCP or any other way to connect
to it, then you can still default to
basically just having Cloud Code use the
browser for you. And the classic way of
doing that was, if you go here to
connectors again, you can you see this
like Cloud in Chrome. And it's basically
a Chrome extension that you can install.
And once that's installed and connected,
you can basically say things like, "Hey,
open up YouTube on my browser in
Chrome." And so, you can see here now
it's saying I'll use Cloud in Chrome to
open YouTube. And if I switch here to my
browser, you can see it's opening up
YouTube. And here obviously you can then
have it take other actions for you. And
these can be, you know, full workflows.
For example, I have this like particular
workflow where I wanted to open up
YouTube for me, go into my account, view
my channel, and then attach a comment on
one of my videos. But I do think that
this method is also becoming obsolete
soon because just a few days ago, they
now released the browser directly inside
of the Cloud Desktop apps. So if I click
here to open up the browser, I can
actually also open up websites just
inside of this browser here, and it
should then be able to basically, like
you can you can also log into your
accounts there, and have those accounts
like be persisted the login, so that it
will, you know, across other chats, it
will still stay logged into your
account. And you know, it just has
access to the browser directly here. So
I think this will be even easier way to
do this other than installing this
Chrome extension. Okay, and finally, I
do want to also mention Meta Connector
Tools. And these are basically, you can
think of them like as a tool that's kind
of like a third-party marketplace to
connect a bunch of other tools. And one
of the most famous tools here is called
Composio. So if I go into my Composio
account here, you can basically see I
can connect Composio once, and then
within my Composio account, I can
connect all of these other tools. So for
example, I have my Gmail here that I can
connect it to my Google Docs and so on.
And the benefit here is that, first of
all, sometimes these connections are
more capable than the connections that
you can do directly through your
marketplace inside of the Cloud Desktop
app. So one example here is, if I look
for Google Drive, Google Drive exists
here in the Cloud Desktop app, and it
has a couple of tools available like
create file and so on.
But if I want to interact with like
Google Sheets files, the Google Sheets
connector actually does not exist here.
But in Composio, there is a Google
Sheets integration. And basically, it's
kind of like a pre-built, I guess, you
know, integration that access the API
directly. You know, you don't have to
know the technical details here, but
essentially, what I'm trying to say is
there is like sometimes you can find
some capabilities that are possible
through the connections that you can
make here through Composure that do not
exist on the Cloud Desktop app. The
other benefit of using a meta connector
tool like this is that if you ever want
to migrate all of your connections, so
for example, you you know, you're using
Cloud Desktop and then you want to
migrate it to using it through the Open
AI ecosystem, then you only need to
migrate this one connection and
basically bring all of your other
connections with you. So, that makes the
migration easier. That's one of the
benefits as well. Okay, next up is this
topic of skills. So, what are skills?
Skills basically just you can think of
them as a saved prompt. That's the
easiest way to think about this. How do
you create skills? Well, the easiest way
to do that is you open up a new chat and
you say what you want the skill to be
about. So, for example, I want you to
create a skill. It should and then you
do two and so on. And you just describe
what it should do. Step one, it should
go into my um tool which records my
meetings, fetch the transcript. Step
two, it should go through that
transcript and summarize it and so on.
Okay, where are skills stored? If you
create the skill like the way I showed
you just now in Cloud Code, they will be
stored locally in a folder. So, inside
of this uh folder that you're operating
your Cloud from, in my case it's
Claudia, and then there will be a folder
here called dot cloud. It's a hidden
folder, so you need to press the
keyboard shortcut shift command dot to
show you the hidden folders in here. You
click into this dot cloud folder and
then there will be a folder here called
skills. And this is where all of the
skills are saved. So, you can see
they're kind of just like uh if you look
have a look at this this skill here,
it's like a folder called proposal
builder, which is the name of the skill.
And inside of that folder, there's a
skill.md file. And here is where the
logic of the skill lives. And it's just
plain text English, right? That
describes what the skill should do. Now,
if you create skills in the desktop app,
and this is by default if you create it
from co-work, and admittedly, that's
kind of confusing now, but that's just
just the way it is. It will be saving it
inside of You can imagine it like being
saved in the cloud, basically, your
skill. And it's like tied to your cloud
account, whereas the other skill that
you're creating is locally on your
machine. But yeah, the ones that you
create through co-work are living in
here, and so you can see the skills here
in this list. I basically like kind of
just copied all of my local ones into
here as well, so I can use the same ones
on co-work if I wanted to. And yeah,
that's just like the different places
where they live. I think this is like
one of the topics where as time goes on,
Anthropic will probably like find a way
to make the management of these skills a
bit easier, but that's kind of the way
that it is right now. If you do it
through code, they will by default be
saved locally. And if you do it through
co-work, they're saved like basically,
you can access them here through the
desktop app. Now, there's also this
topic of plugins, which is, you know,
one thing that people ask when it comes
to this topic of skills. And I don't
want to make it too confusing, but
basically, plugins in the Anthropic
ecosystem is essentially a package of
skills and tools. So, you can see here
through the plugin marketplace, if I go
into this like this is the productivity
plugin that was created by Anthropic.
And you can also, you know, create
custom plugins for your own company or,
you know, other companies like here,
Carta has created plugins that are also
featured here officially in this
directory. But essentially, what it is,
you click into it, and it is like a
bundle of skills and also a bundle of
tools that you can connect. Okay, so, I
don't want to go too much into detail
here, but yeah, that's basically what it
is. What makes it kind of confusing is
that if you go into the Open AI
ecosystem, when they talk about plugins,
it's basically just the direct
connection. And so, uh you know, this
all makes it slightly confusing, but uh
yeah. Personally, I just have like
skills and connected tools. For me,
that's enough, and I don't use that many
plugins, but uh you know, they might
become useful. If you're doing a
specific function very often, or you
know, you want to create like a bundle
of skills and tools for your company,
then uh this might come useful. And the
final which is actually the reason why
they're so useful is that after you've
saved this prompt, basically, you can
just very easily just trigger it. And
you do that by typing forward slash, and
then let's say I want to trigger my
YouTube upload skill, and then I can
just select it and basically hit enter,
and it will go ahead and trigger it for
me and and run that prompt, basically.
Okay, next up, let's talk about this
feature here called routines. So, first,
what are routines? Basically, if I click
into it, you'll see these are
essentially automations, and they're
just defined by a trigger, and then the
thing that it should do when it
triggers. So, you can see here if I want
to define it, it will have
a trigger of the schedule, so I can
select like manually, hourly, daily,
weekly, and so on, or custom, and then
just the things that it should do when
it triggers. So, how do you create them?
Easy way is clicking here into the
routines tab, and then here you can
click on new routine. You can select
between local and cloud. I'll go into
that later. If you then select local,
you can define like the things that you
do here, and then just hit create.
Another even easier way to do it is also
just inside of the chat. I want you to
create a test routine. Okay, so now it's
said basically it just like created a
Telegram ping test routine. And now if I
go into my routines tab here, you'll see
it created this test Telegram ping
routine. And that's also, you know, you
can just create your routines through
the chat. Now, what is this difference
between local and cloud routines? So,
essentially, local is, as the name said,
it runs locally, which means it will
have the same capabilities as when
you're just running a prompt locally.
So, you can think of it like you're just
defining a trigger, and when that
trigger happens, so for example, every
morning at 9:00, it will just
essentially create a new cloud code chat
and just paste your instructions as the
prompt. That's it, basically. That's how
local works. Now, the big downside to
that, obviously, is that this only works
when your cursor is on and when your
cloud desktop app is on. So, if you want
something to just constantly run without
you having to have your cloud desktop
app on, this may not be the best thing
to do. Although, if you look at my
routines, since, you know, I use cloud
desktop every day, most of my routines
are local routines. And it's just the
easiest way to do this, because you
don't need to set anything else up. You
just create your routine, and that's it.
And since my cloud desktop app is on all
the time anyways, they will just trigger
when the time comes. The other way to do
this is through the cloud, and this you
can really think of as you're basically
creating like this set of rules, and
then you're hosting it somewhere in the
cloud, and every time the trigger
happens, it will basically just run this
thing, but it will run it in the cloud
instance. So, it won't run it on your
computer. The downside is it takes a
little bit longer to set up, because you
need to create a repository for it and
then host it and so on. You can define
also like which tools it is allowed to
connect to. And these are, by the way,
all of the tools that you've connected
through your customize, so you can
define which ones it should have access
to in this particular routine. Then,
when the time comes, it just basically
triggers that. So, if you want
automations that really should just be
constantly running, like every day or
something like that, then this is the
way to do that. And you can compare
these with basically N8N or Make
automations. You can, you know,
essentially just like write your logic
here, have it create this automation and
put it in the cloud and it will just
constantly run. Okay, now the last topic
here is mobile options and I have to
admit that there are some options right
now for you to be able to use cloud code
on your phone, but they're not great
yet. And if your usage really is heavy
on your phone, then maybe using a tool
like you know, open claw, Hermes or or
Victor is the better option for you. But
you know, if your usage is heavy just on
your laptop, then I I think cloud code
is a very good option for you. Having
said that, there are a couple ways to
access cloud code on your phone. And the
first way is basically this feature
remote control. You can go into settings
and then if you go here into the cloud
code settings, you can activate this
setting here which is called enable
remote control by default. And what this
does is that every time I create a new
chat, it will by default activate this
remote control, which essentially means
if I click here, you'll see here I have
this is it says remote control is active
on this one. And it just means that this
chat that I'm creating here is also
automatically accessible from my cloud
mobile app and I can continue the chat
there. The downside is that since this
is a local session, I cannot create the
local session from my phone. I can only
create it here from my laptop and then
continue it on my phone. If it's a cloud
session, then it's possible. But yeah,
in in my case I'm using this locally, so
it's you know, it's useful for
continuing conversations, but other than
that, it's not super useful. The other
way is then through a feature called
dispatch. Now, this is actually a
feature that was only developed for
co-work initially and then later it was
expanded to be able to used in cloud
code. And I can click here into
dispatch. You can think of it just like
one chat that you can have as like one
channel that they created that is
accessible for you on your local desktop
here, but then also on your phone. And
then there's this little trick here,
which [clears throat] is if you want
your dispatch to always just have access
to cloud code, you can go into your
co-work instructions here and basically
just type in the instructions here to
say "Every time I use dispatch, just
have it access my cloud code" or
something like that. I used to have
this. I don't know why this prompt got
deleted for some reason, but yeah, this
is like one little trick how you can
kind of force your dispatch usage to be
just using cloud code instead of
co-work. All right, that's it. So, these
are pretty much all of the things you
need to know to be using cloud code on
like a near professional level without
going too much into the details,
although I think I went over 20 minutes,
but yeah, that's it. I appreciate you
watching till the end. And if you want
to see more of these kinds of videos,
then feel free to subscribe to my
channel. And if you want to get help to
automate your business, then go check
out joinagentos.com. This is where you
can work with me and you can book a call
with me, and then we can have a look at
your business and see which parts of it
we can automate so that you get to work
faster, that you get more done, and
ultimately have better margins and make
more profit. All right, thanks for
watching. See you in the next video.
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This video provides a comprehensive guide for non-coders on effectively using Claude Code to automate business tasks. It covers interface options, focusing on the desktop app, explains the advantages of local file operations compared to cloud-based chat, and details how to manage permissions and models. Furthermore, the video explores how to connect external tools via MCP and meta-connectors, explains how to use skills and routines for automation, and discusses the current state of mobile access.
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