Real AI agent use cases, with sources and setup prompts
Short answer: Run Claude Code, or another agent that can use a terminal, on a laptop connected to your own network and ask it to diagnose before it changes anything: list every connected device, check the router's channel, band and firmware, test speeds and flag devices you do not recognize. Builders below fixed slow Wi-Fi in minutes, found forgotten or unknown devices, moved smart gadgets to an isolated IoT network or local Home Assistant, and blocked ad and tracking domains for the whole house with Pi-hole, NextDNS or AdGuard Home. Only do this on networks and devices you own, start read-only, approve every router change and never paste router passwords into the chat.
Home network fixes people ran with AI agents on their own networks: faster Wi-Fi, device audits, ad and tracker blocking for the whole house, and smart devices brought under local control. 20 matching use cases below, each with a public source.
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Connect your agent to Home Assistant via MCP and route automations that need judgement through it; talk to it with an ESP32 voice device.
After the Android TV guides, his team published an interactive guide for using Claude Code to remove unwanted apps from an Android phone, check background activity, block ads with Private DNS and undo any change.
He turned on Developer options and Wireless debugging and paired his phone with the computer Grok Bot runs on. The bot now installs his test builds, takes screenshots, taps through apps and reads settings; its first job was a plain-language audit of every phone setting.
A $400 robot vacuum sat in a cupboard for 2 years after the maker's cloud shut down. He used Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code to reverse-engineer how it talked to the servers, built a local server to control it, and scheduled weekday cleans at 40% suction.
A builder made Cubicles because he did not want his agent living on his laptop with his files, accounts and home network. Each agent gets a full Ubuntu desktop in the cloud with OpenClaw and Hermes Agent preinstalled, stays on 24/7, and you can watch it live from any browser.
The PS5 has no developer mode, so instead of touching the console he had Claude Code build everything around it: a DNS blocker on an always-on Raspberry Pi or mini PC that blocks promo and tracking domains for the whole house, wake-from-phone, streaming to a laptop, and Home Assistant showing the console status and putting it to sleep at 1am.
Built from the playbook behind his TV De-Ad Bot, a free guide walks through removing smart-TV ads with Grok Bot, Claude Code, Muse, Dots, OpenClaw or Hermes: find your TV's OS, connect with adb, snapshot apps, disable bloat, swap the launcher and block ads and tracking with NextDNS, Pi-hole or AdGuard Home.
In one evening with Claude Code he made his LG OLED a plain monitor that boots straight to an NVIDIA Shield, debloated the Shield over ADB with an ad-free launcher and put Home Assistant in charge of the whole setup.
A developer's parents' Xiaomi TV showed a sponsored ad before you could even reach Netflix. He gave Claude Code the TV's model number; it found the set on the home Wi-Fi, disabled 25 Xiaomi packages and wrote a new Apple TV-style launcher. He later published the prompt and launcher as the open-source cleanyourtv project.
PS5LM runs open models on a PlayStation 5's GPU so any device on the home network, including Claude Code, can use it. The project is by @mertcobanov.
A homeowner uses Grok Bot to write and set up Home Assistant automations running on his Raspberry Pi.
Signals, a Grok Bot on the marketplace for people who run UniFi and Home Assistant, checks home network security and Wi-Fi read-only, backs up the UniFi config weekly off the box and helps move smart devices onto an isolated IoT network.
He connected his Grok Bot to Home Assistant and to his Sonos audio system through a Sonos MCP server.
Grok Bot helped him move control of his Eufy robot vacuum from the Eufy app to his local Home Assistant and cut the vacuum off from the internet and Eufy's servers entirely.
Shipped HarnessRouter: Unified interface for agent harnesses and shared it as a Show HN.
He owns 9 devices, so he asked Claude Code to list everything connected to his router. It found 11: one was an old forgotten smart plug and the other was a device he did not recognize. He shared a read-only audit prompt that does not change router settings.
He shares a prompt for Claude Code: attach a photo of your robot vacuum or its About screen, state it is your own device on your own network, and ask the agent to investigate what it can access and whether anyone could watch or listen through it.
He pasted a prompt into Claude Code with a photo of his router and a description of the problem; the agent worked out the cause of the slowdown and changed the settings.
With one prompt and the REA toolkit, Claude Opus 5.5 set up control of his PC from his laptop on the same network: opening apps, finding content and launching it on the display he picks.
Film photographer built a phone-driven f-stop timer that switches a cheap smart plug for darkroom printing.
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