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How I Built an AI Social Media Manager with Claude Code
Ryan Doser wires Claude Code + Blotato MCP + two skills into a posts-everywhere social engine, then vibe-codes his own dashboard on top.
April 16thThe argument in one line.
A free GitHub account plus an AI agent turns public repos into usable tools for non-coders, as long as you scan each repo for malicious code first and fork it to fit your own work.
Read if. Skip if.
READ IF YOU ARE…
- A marketer, SEO or content person who uses Claude or ChatGPT daily but has never made a GitHub account or starred a repo.
- Someone running Claude Code or Codex inside VS Code who wants Google Drive, Search Console or web scraping access without a one-click connector.
- An SEO consultant looking for free or cheap alternatives to Semrush and Ahrefs, or a way to automate PR outreach for backlinks.
- A solo creator who wants to edit video with an AI agent through code instead of paying per-credit AI video tools.
- A team lead worried that non-technical staff will install unsafe skills or break things while experimenting with AI tools.
SKIP IF…
- You're already a developer who uses GitHub daily; the repo list is curated for marketers and the explanations stay basic.
- You want step-by-step install walkthroughs; the episode names each repo and its use case but mostly tells you to hand the URL to your agent.
- You want a balanced debate about AI's downsides; the opening 10 minutes are a one-sided case against the anti-AI crowd.
The full version, fast.
The episode argues that GitHub, not chat apps, is the real gateway for non-coders getting into AI building. The method is simple: make a free account, connect it to Claude or ChatGPT, copy a public repo's URL into your agent, have it scan the repo for prompt injections and malicious files, then say implement this. Forking lets you customize any repo with your own branding and context. The 15 picks cover Claude skills, the official Google Workspace CLI, Anthropic's skills repo, last30days, Firecrawl, a Search Console MCP, OpenSEO, Newsjack, HyperFrames, Postiz, an AI writing audit, Herdr, Cloudflare OS, Whisper, Matt Pocock's skills and Google's DESIGN.md. Star counts can be faked, so check before you trust.
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00:48hostRyan Doser
00:55cohostAaron Makelky
Where the time goes.
00:00 – 03:32
01 · Cold open and agent news
Kinetic-text cold open, then catch-up on Claude Duet and ChatGPT Dots, and why the cohost sticks with whatever runs Opus.
03:32 – 08:50
02 · It won't end well for the anti-AI crowd
A semi-viral tweet becomes an adapt-or-die argument using Moneyball, kids' teachers ranting about AI, and the generational gap between curious and fearful households.
08:50 – 13:44
03 · First step: a free GitHub account, then use repos safely
GitHub as the gateway drug, private repos as backup for every site and agent, Git explained as version control, and the paste-URL, scan-first, implement-this method.
13:44 – 15:16
04 · Free Claude skills
The host's 15 free marketing skills (SEO, CRO, landing pages, anti-slop), what a skill is, and starring repos as agent-readable bookmarks.
15:16 – 16:40
05 · Google Workspace CLI
Google's verified CLI gives Claude Code in VS Code access to Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets and Docs; example of captioning a Drive folder of short videos.
16:40 – 18:17
06 · Anthropic's official skills repo
Front-end design, MCP and skill-creator skills, a teacher skill set, and the case for forking skills instead of using them as-is.
18:17 – 19:27
07 · last30days for trend research
A skill that pulses Reddit, X, YouTube and news for any topic over the last 30 days; some sources need API keys.
19:27 – 20:15
08 · Firecrawl for web scraping
A more capable scraper than default web fetch, with a generous free plan.
20:15 – 22:56
09 · The Search Console MCP used daily
Asking an agent which pages lose clicks and implementing fixes in the same chat, plus the scan prompt to run before installing any MCP.
22:56 – 25:52
10 · OpenSEO, an open-source Semrush clone
A $10/month Ahrefs-style tool built on DataForSEO that you can fork and trim, and why big SEO SaaS is losing its moat.
25:52 – 27:53
11 · Newsjack, an AI PR team
Open-source skills that find journalists and draft pitches for backlinks, with the caveat that content has to be worth featuring.
27:53 – 30:57
12 · HyperFrames by HeyGen
Video editing through HTML so agents can build editable motion graphics; the cohost's transcript-based workflow and a self-updating video-editing skill.
30:57 – 34:16
13 · Postiz and the security slide
An open-source social scheduler you can fork, why self-hosting isn't actually free, and the data on malicious skills and fake stars.
34:16 – 35:42
14 · Cohost picks: an AI writing audit
A gate that flags AI-sounding patterns and logs edits before any text ships, wired in through a hook or system prompt.
35:42 – 37:28
15 · Herdr: one terminal for every machine
An open-source terminal that controls coding-agent sessions across several computers from one window.
37:28 – 38:46
16 · Cloudflare OS and Whisper
A sandboxed company workspace so non-technical staff can't break things, and local Whisper for private transcription.
38:46 – 40:42
17 · Matt Pocock's skills and Google's DESIGN.md
A developer's skills repo that teaches better build vocabulary, and a file format that captures visual style for agents.
40:42 – 42:00
18 · Where to start
Response to 'you didn't show me how': make the account, connect it to your AI, ask the AI for steps, and think of GitHub as your agent's backpack.
42:00 – 46:05
19 · Final thoughts: curiosity wins
Don't be a victim, the Brussels sprouts test for AI critics, AI thumbnails for small channels, and curiosity as the 2026 advantage.
Lines worth screenshotting.
- You can use almost any public GitHub repo without coding by pasting its URL into Claude or Codex and saying implement this.
- Before you implement any public repo, ask your agent to scan every file for prompt injections, key theft or data exfiltration.
- A fork is a copy of someone's repo that becomes yours, so you can strip their branding and add your own context privately.
- GitHub stars work like bookmarks your AI agent can read, so you can tell it to check your starred repos for useful tools.
- GitHub star counts are as gameable as Reddit upvotes; one slide in the episode cites roughly 6 million suspected fake stars.
- One skill marketplace was found hosting 341 malicious skills, which is why a security scan should run before every install.
- Git is version control, the same idea as a Google Doc's edit history, so any broken change can be rolled back to yesterday.
- Claude Code inside VS Code has no one-click Google Drive connector, and Google's official Workspace CLI fills that gap.
- Wiring a Search Console MCP into your agent lets you ask which pages are losing clicks and fix them in the same chat.
- A useful repo can have only 167 stars; the Search Console MCP highlighted here is tiny but used every day.
- Semrush and Ahrefs are losing their moat to open-source clones; their only lasting advantage is 10-plus years of collected data.
- Most sites can't earn backlinks because their content isn't worth citing, and no PR automation tool fixes that.
- HyperFrames edits video as HTML, so captions and layers stay editable instead of being burned into the render.
- Self-hosting a social scheduler isn't free: you still pay per API call, own the security patches, and risk banned accounts.
- A design.md file describes a visual style in a format agents can reproduce, which gives more consistent web and video output.
- Local Whisper models top out around 4 GB, so even a small laptop can transcribe audio without it leaving the device.
- Ask your AI tool to explain jargon like PR and merge in plain English for your profession until the vocabulary sticks.
Scan it, fork it, then let your agent implement it.
WHAT TO LEARN
Public GitHub repos give non-coders free skills, connectors and app clones, and the safe way in is an agent that vets and customizes each repo before installing it.
02It won't end well for the anti-AI crowd
- Critics of AI who never adapt their workflow risk their careers and families' security, the same way scouts who rejected analytics lost their jobs.
- The next generation learns either curiosity or fear about AI from parents and teachers, and that gap compounds over a generation.
03First step: a free GitHub account, then use repos safely
- Make a free GitHub account and store every site, landing page and agent log in private repos so any change can be rolled back.
- To use any public repo, paste its URL into your agent, have it scan for prompt injections and malicious files, then say implement this.
- Ask your AI tool to explain GitHub terms like PR and merge in plain English for your profession until the vocabulary is second nature.
04Free Claude skills
- A skill is an SOP for your AI, and free marketing skill packs cover SEO, keyword research, conversion optimization and anti-slop writing checks.
- Starring a repo saves it as a bookmark your agent can search later, which beats keeping tool lists in browser bookmarks or Notion.
05Google Workspace CLI
- If you run Claude Code or Codex in VS Code, Google's official Workspace CLI restores Drive, Gmail and Sheets access the web apps get by default.
- Use only the verified Google repo, since third-party lookalikes can exist to harvest your account data.
06Anthropic's official skills repo
- Anthropic's official skills repo includes a skill-creator that helps you write new skills to best practice, plus a set built for teachers.
- Fork other people's skills and replace their branding and voice with yours rather than running someone else's landing page skill unchanged.
07last30days for trend research
- last30days pulls the past month of Reddit, X, YouTube and news on any topic, giving your agent a quick pulse check on what changed.
- Some last30days sources need their own API keys, but much of it runs free, which makes it practical as a daily news briefing for a team.
08Firecrawl for web scraping
- Firecrawl handles sites that block default web fetch, so reach for it when scraping returns blank or blocked pages.
- Firecrawl's free plan is generous enough to test it on your hardest scraping targets before paying for anything.
09The Search Console MCP used daily
- A Search Console MCP lets your agent answer which pages are losing clicks and propose three update opportunities in one prompt.
- Third-party MCPs can spoof official tools, so ask your agent to check whether a repo could steal API keys or data before connecting it.
10OpenSEO, an open-source Semrush clone
- OpenSEO offers Semrush-style rank and keyword tracking for about $10 a month, and you can fork it to keep only the features you need.
- Big SEO platforms now compete mainly on years of collected data, since open-source clones can reproduce most of their features.
11Newsjack, an AI PR team
- Newsjack automates finding journalists and drafting pitches, the hardest part of earning backlinks and brand mentions.
- Outreach tools won't earn links for recycled AI articles; publish original data or research a journalist would actually want to cite.
12HyperFrames by HeyGen
- HyperFrames builds video from HTML, so captions, cameras and graphics stay as separate editable layers instead of being burned in.
- Keep a video-editing skill in your own repo and update it after each session with the styles and edits that worked.
13Postiz and the security slide
- Postiz is a 40K-star open-source scheduler you can fork into your own posting tool for AI agents.
- Self-hosting a scheduler still costs per-post API fees, makes you responsible for security fixes, and can get client accounts banned.
- Treat star counts with suspicion; the episode cites about 6 million suspected fake stars and 341 malicious skills on one marketplace.
14Cohost picks: an AI writing audit
- Run every piece of AI-generated writing through an audit skill that flags AI-sounding patterns before it is posted or sent.
- Wire that audit into a hook or agents file so it runs automatically whenever someone else will read the output.
15Herdr: one terminal for every machine
- Herdr shows coding-agent terminal sessions from several machines in one window, so long jobs keep running when you walk away.
- A terminal hub matters most when coding agents run on your own machines rather than in the cloud, since it removes the tab and device switching.
16Cloudflare OS and Whisper
- Cloudflare OS gives non-technical teammates sandboxed tools that can't leak company data or break production.
- Run Whisper locally for transcription; the largest models are about 4 GB and nothing leaves your machine.
17Matt Pocock's skills and Google's DESIGN.md
- Matt Pocock's skills repo teaches the vocabulary of building software, which makes your instructions to coding agents more precise.
- Google's DESIGN.md captures a site's or video's visual style so agents can reproduce it consistently across web pages and edits.
18Where to start
- If a video doesn't show the steps, paste its transcript into your AI and ask what to do first; it will lay out the sequence.
- The starting sequence is: create a GitHub account, connect it to your AI tool, then try one repo and learn by using it.
19Final thoughts: curiosity wins
- Asking your coding agent 'can you do this?' is the habit most people skip, and doing it puts you ahead of them.
- Critics who have barely used AI beyond a chat box are judging something they haven't tried; block them rather than argue.
Terms worth knowing.
- Repository (repo)
- A project folder hosted on GitHub that holds code, files and their full change history. Public repos can be read and copied by anyone; private repos are visible only to their owner and invited collaborators.
- Fork
- A full copy of someone else's repository saved under your own account. You can change it freely without affecting the original, which makes it the standard way to customize a public tool.
- Star
- A GitHub bookmark you can put on any repository. The total star count is often read as a popularity signal, though it can be inflated with fake accounts.
- Pull request (PR) and merge
- A pull request is a proposed set of changes to a repository. Merging accepts those changes into the main version of the project.
- Skill
- A markdown file of instructions that teaches an AI agent how to do one specific task, similar to a standard operating procedure. Claude and other agents load it when the task comes up.
- MCP server
- A plug-in built on the Model Context Protocol that lets an AI agent read from or act inside another app, such as Google Search Console, through a standard interface.
- CLI
- Command-line interface: a tool you run by typing commands in a terminal. Coding agents can run CLIs directly, which makes them a way to give an agent access to services like Gmail or Drive.
- Prompt injection
- Hidden instructions planted in files or web pages that try to hijack an AI agent, for example telling it to send API keys or private data to an attacker.
- Web fetch
- The built-in page-reading tool many AI models use to pull content from a URL. Sites often block it, which is why dedicated scrapers exist.
- DESIGN.md
- A file format from Google Labs that describes a visual style (colors, type, layout, motion) in plain text so a coding agent can recreate it consistently.
- Local model
- An AI model that runs on your own computer instead of a cloud service, so the data you feed it never leaves the device.
Things they pointed at.
34:46toolAI writing audit (cohost's skill)
20:40productDataForSEO
31:02productBlotato (host discloses it is a client)
Lines you could clip.
00:31
“The real superpower in 2026 and even more going forward, it's curiosity. Like even just ask Claude Code, can you do this? 99% of people will never do that.”
09:06
“I actually see GitHub as my gateway drug to all this AI coding, building.”
11:12
“The coolest thing about AI is your microwave can't tell you how to use it, but your AI tool can tell you how to use itself.”
13:27
“Take this URL, paste it into your AI system and just say, implement this.”
15:18
“My hunch is that stars are the new Reddit upvotes in terms of how manipulated these things can be.”
24:20
“Data is the only moat that those tools have anymore.”
27:30
“You have to create interesting shit. That's really what it comes down to, to start getting backlinks and brand mentions.”
33:01
“It's not free to self-host is my point.”
41:55
“It's the backpack for your AI agent that you can take to any other AI agent or project.”
42:51
“How many people tell me they don't like Brussels sprouts? And I go, how many times have you had them? Well, I haven't, but I know I don't like it.”
Where the conversation goes.
00:00 – 08:50sparseAgent news and the anti-AI argument
08:50 – 13:44denseGitHub basics and the safe install method
13:44 – 34:16denseHost's 10 repo picks (skills, SEO, PR, video, social)
34:16 – 40:42denseCohost's 6 picks (writing audit, terminals, teams, transcription, design)
40:42 – 46:05sparseWhere to start and closing mindset rant
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AI has truly leveled the playing field for solo operators like myself. Small businesses who can create a website that would cost $10 ,000 plus hiring an agency. All you have to do is open your mind.
Compared to the Luddite that like burn down the factory, they're going to take our jobs. Growing up in that environment, if that's your teacher or your parent, one generation from now, you are already a lost. I don't understand AI, so therefore I'm anti -AI and I'm going to put a stance on that and I'm never going to adapt.
Well, good luck with that. That's all I'm going to say. say because it's not going to end up for you really well.
The real superpower in 2026 and even more going forward, it's curiosity. That's what it is. Like even just ask Claude Code, can you do this?
99 % of people will never do that. If you even try, you're ahead of them.
Welcome back to another edition of AI Rabbit Holes. This is a podcast where we go down the endless amount of rabbit holes and artificial intelligence. And I'm happy to have back on once again, Aaron McCulkey.
And first of all, those of you who are tuning in live on X, we appreciate that. Those who are listening on the Spotify, Apple, YouTube podcast version, we appreciate your listening and viewership as well. Aaron, we just chatted a few days ago about the buy it or build it.
Should we vibe code it? Should we buy the software? Anything in your world that has changed in the past?
What has it been? 48 hours when it comes to AI. No, we got access to Claude Duet, and we mentioned that on the intro of the last one.
So they set everybody on the wait list. You had to go sign up. If you have a max plan, they're going to give access to this week.
We'll see if that actually happens. But another personal agent runs in the cloud, does everything for you, tool that everybody has. I do like how they have channels, though.
That's one thing it beats ChatGPT .on. Here's the biggest one. It has Opus.
That's what people don't realize. The reason I like it is I want my Opus. And no matter what features and tools and interfaces you give, Dots have some cool new ones.
It's in iMessage now, which is amazing, but it doesn't run on Opus. So yeah, it's frustrating. Yeah, I think people are learning like, man, I just got to pick one thing.
I got to stick with it. There's very little that makes me want to move and like redo a subscription or a workflow unless the model in it is that much better. And it's still Opus, even though it's a month old.
Yeah. And my thinking is like on my Mac mini, I have the cloud desktop app and I have the chat GPT desktop app running. And so I'm going to have chat GPT dots and cloud duet paired with those apps where I can have them, you know, access the Mac mini to even go above and beyond what I could do on the mobile app or in the cloud.
And so that's what I'm going to be doing is running them on my Mac mini 24 seven, but also having the mobile apps on my phone so I can communicate with them. And I saw they just had an update. I think it was chat GPT where you can now text.
chat GPT dots into like iMessage or whatever, which honestly, I don't think that's that big of a deal personally, because you can just do that in the chat GPT app. But that's kind of the way that I'm looking at this right now. Yeah, I'm going to take the other opinion.
I think it's a big deal to a lot of people. And I always think of who are your nine pinned chats and iMessage because you can pin, you know, group messages, your family, your wife, whatever. And I bet there are some people who their GPT dot is going to be a top nine contact and you don't have to open a different app.
It's right there where you're texting other people. Biggest thing I was impressed with that is that you can send them voice notes just natively on an iMessage. And they don't ever tell you you ramble too much like your friends you send voice notes to.
Absolutely. So the first thing I want to talk about today is another tweet that went semi -viral for me, which as we talked about before this, Aaron, my ex or Twitter account seems to be getting off a little more here. As I started to post a little more, I would say, quote unquote.
controversial, not so controversial posts related to AI. Like this one's crazy. I don't know if we can see this.
Cause I have all the replies zoomed in here, but this was just literally like a once. And by the way, when I'm posting things like. I'm just like brain dumping what comes into my head.
If I'm sitting in the sauna, if I'm laying on the couch with my son and I think of something, I literally either just voice dump it or pull up my phone and just tweet it. Like I don't really think twice about a lot of this stuff, which maybe I should, I don't know. That's just how I am.
That's just like my authentic self, I guess. And this was my latest one, right? People can complain all they want, but in reality, it will not end well for the anti -AI crowd, okay?
And you could take this in a million different ways of what I mean by not end well. I'm not talking - talking about the end of humanity or anything like that.
I'm talking about not end well in terms of let's say someone's career or someone's ability to take care of their family. And that's where I'm going with this is that I have a two month old son, Aaron, you have kids too. I don't like with all of this coming into the abyss and like all this AI stuff going on.
I am going to step up and make sure that I know what I need to know and do what I need to do, regardless of all the changes that are happening in the background, have an open mind, adapt where I can adapt in the marketing industry, and make sure that I am on the top of my game so I can support my two -month -old son or any other potential kids and any other family that I have going on, regardless of all these updates, instead of take a victim mentality, which is where I was going with this tweet, this anti -AI quote -unquote mindset or movement where these people just think, I'm going to be anti -AI and they're not going to stop me and this and that.
Well, newsflash here, Aaron, you and I both know this. The economy is going to keep moving. Things are going to keep changing.
And if you don't adapt to it, whatever field you're in, I know there's nuance to this whole thing, but whatever field that you're in, AI is probably going to have its hand in it in some regard. It's really like back to the whole Moneyball thing, which I always tell people when Billy Bean went up to that old scout and he said, adapt or die.
And the scout eventually got fired. And now look at MLB today, where it's basically all run on analytics with, of course, some of the other stuff, like the fundamentals are still important in the game of baseball. But Moneyball is the best example that I can give here of the adapt or die situation.
And I could ramble about this whole thing forever. But before I get into this too much, Aaron, what are your thoughts on like the whole anti -AI movement and this and that? Last thing I will say, though, is I'm not a fanboy of these big tech oligarchs like Zuckerberg and Elon Musk.
I understand the downsides. I'm not a fanboy of any of these people. I think they're very evil, if I'm being honest with you.
But it doesn't matter. Things are just going to keep changing, so I might as well use what's at my disposal to help me and benefit my friends and family. That's the way I look at this whole thing.
Yeah. I actually had multiple people tag me on the same topic, but it was with their kids and their teachers, which is a... profession that is still near and dear to my heart.
My wife even showed me this self -portrait my son did from parent -teacher conferences, and it's symbolizing what's in his brain. And he's got to be the only sixth grader in America who has chat GPT 6 .1 on his self -portrait in his brain. And it's funny, he'll come home and tell me what his teachers say about AI.
And they just go on rants and they don't know what they're talking about. Here's my example I like to give people. You have an advantage if you use these tools right now.
If you reinvent your workflows and learn some new skills that were very inaccessible to non -technical people like GitHub today. But imagine this, you teaching your son. Think of the advantage the next generation has if they're learning from people like you and I at home, just like our own children, let alone on the internet, compared to the Luddite.
to like burn down the factory. They're going to take our jobs. Growing up in that environment, if that's your teacher or your parent, one generation from now, you are already a lost cause.
You better hope there's some kind of universal basic income or welfare program, which I don't know too many people that are confident enough in the government to do that. I certainly am not. I want my kids to learn those skills.
And it's an even bigger advantage when you go through a generation. So what would you tell farmers when the tractor came out? Yeah.
Or horses and buggies when the cars came out. I mean, it's literally just like you could go back in time and you're a history teacher. So, I mean, you could probably give a shit more, a ton more examples than I could.
I wanted to share this for priority quickly. This guy, uh, Mario, he follows me. Like we DM sometimes he's, he's cool.
And he was saying that his son's kindergarten teacher is very anti AI considering homeschool now. So I gave the year out of here gift, like get him out of the class that he's in right now. But it's like, it's this whole case of, you don't know what you don't know.
And I think. There's just so much fear that people have when they hear AI because they freeze. They don't know how to use AI.
And so that means AI bad. If I don't know how to use it and I tune into Fox News and CNN and pull up social media and there's all this bad stuff about AI, AI bad. I don't understand AI.
So therefore, I'm anti -AI and I'm going to put a stance on that and I'm never going to adapt. Well, good luck with that. That's all I'm going to say because it's not going to end up for you really well.
Yeah. Here's the single best thing you can do to adapt. If you don't have a GitHub account, go make a free one.
And if you do, keep a list or give this transcript to your agents and have them star some of these that we're going to show. Because I actually see GitHub as my to all this AI coding, building. About a year ago when I kind of got sucked in, GitHub was the vehicle that took me there more than ChatGPT or Cloud was.
Yes. And on that note, we're going to transfer to the main topic of today's episode, which are. the best free GitHub repositories that you can start using today.
Um, but before we actually get into the repos, we had a whole episode talking about, you know, how you should use GitHub, what is GitHub. And I'll leave that video link in the description below. Um, but if you don't understand this, what I would first recommend is getting a free GitHub account.
Okay. And then start to create free repositories, private, public, you know, just, just dive in and figure this out. Like, and you can seamlessly integrate GitHub to Claude or GitHub.
ChatGPT, and you can start having these AI agents create GitHub repos for you. You know, you might be looking at this and saying, well, what is all this stuff? What are all these repositories, right?
And I'm not going to get into all of them, but basically every single website or landing page that I have is stored on a private GitHub repo. Ryandozer .com, all my website files, my code base, that is all stored on a private GitHub repo. All these landing pages that I use for my skill stack or digital products or clients, if I'm building landing pages for paid ad campaigns, that's all stored on a private GitHub repo.
My chat GPT. dot. I'm not going to get into the whole dots right now and the personal AI assistance, but I have a whole GitHub repo that backs up every single thing that my chat GPT dot is doing behind the scenes with SOPs, with daily logs and, and all sorts of voice transcripts.
When I call him on the phone, he's keeping those transcripts stored in a folder on a private GitHub repo, right? So literally every single thing that I am doing with AI personal assistance, websites, landing pages, I am storing on a private GitHub repo. Aaron, anything else you want to comment on that before we actually start getting into some public GitHub repos that anyone can start using.
And I'll leave all the links to those in the description below as well, just if anyone wants to try them out themselves. Yeah, the coolest thing about AI is your microwave can't tell you how to use it, but your AI tool can tell you how to use itself and tools like GitHub. The biggest question I get from people is I don't know the vocabulary.
It's saying PR merged. What the heck is PR stand for? What does merge mean?
Give your AI tool of choice the GitHub connector. Log in like once and then it's good. And tell it, I'm not a developer.
Use common sense, plain English that I will know as a marketer, as a teacher, as a nurse, whatever your skill set is. And then anytime it slips in, just say, explain what a PR is. Explain what merge did.
And it'll tell you. And if you don't like it, you can undo it. So the whole point, I didn't actually know this about GitHub at first.
It makes me feel dumb. It's version control. Like a Google Doc says, Ryan changed this sentence five minutes ago.
And it's kind of highlighted. That's all Git is. It's like, if you broke something, it'd be easy to undo it or see who broke it.
And that's the whole point of GitHub is like. When you update your dot every day, if you somehow broke something, you could revert back to yesterday's version, just like a backup of your computer. Ask your AI tool to explain this stuff and you'll have it down in like two days.
Yeah, absolutely. By the way, every time I do these slides, just for those tuning in on X live or, you know, watching the video version of this, this is all one slash command and cloud code, by the way. And I teach how to do all of this stuff in my community.
If you want to join that, it's free to join right now. I'll leave a link to that in the description below. But anyways, we talked about kind of a repo just a little bit here, but some of the repos that we're going to, and by the way, repo short for repository.
So if I keep saying repo, you don't know what that is. That is just short for repository. And these are just some of the GitHub repositories that we're going to be diving into.
Shameless plug, of course, is I have one of my own public free GitHub repositories that you can literally and if you want to know how to use this, OK, so you can literally come to a GitHub repository. So if I search like I don't even know if I have it up here, but if I search like hyperframes, that's another one I'm going to talk about here later on.
If you want to know how you can actually use a GitHub repo, it's super simple. All you have to do is take the URL of the public GitHub repository, copy it, paste it into. your ai system of choice clod chat gpt clod code codex etc and just say implement this now Be very cautious of that because there's a lot of potential prompt injections or malicious things going on in public GitHub repos.
So I would always tell it to scan the GitHub repository first and look for anything malicious with prompt injections and malicious files. You can create a skill for that if you really want to. But that's how easy it is.
You take this URL, paste it into your AI system and just say, implement this. And it'll walk you through that step by step. And let's go back to the slides here.
So the first one that I had was just some of my free Claude skills. Now, I do have a paid digital product of all my Claude skills or skills, not just for Claude. But I do give away, I think, about 10 or 15 of these.
Yeah, 15 for free from SEO, keyword research, CRO, which stands for conversion rate optimization, landing page, anti -slop stuff. All the stuff that I've been doing over my 10 plus year marketing career packaged into some of these skill markdown files, which if you don't know what a skill is, it's essentially an SOP or standard operating procedure on how to do a specific task.
So before I go on to the next one here, just the Google Workspace CLI. Aaron, did you have any GitHub repos that you wanted to cover or did you just want me to keep going through the slides here of what I had? Let's do yours and then we can put a link to mine because I picked some that.
I compliment yours. Another reason to get a GitHub account, if you're a listener who keeps hearing us talk about this and you didn't make one, being able to star it in GitHub is kind of like a bookmark, but it doesn't have to live in your browser. You don't have to put it in Notion.
So you can always find starred repos. So if you see Ryan's and go, I want to use that. On GitHub, you click the star.
You'll always be able to find it and it's easy to search for. And then you can just tell your AI tool like, hey, use GitHub to look at my starred repos. Those are things we can use for marketing purposes.
So another reason to get a GitHub repo or a GitHub account if you don't have one already. Yeah. And my hunch is that in terms of how manipulated these things can be.
Because if you have a lot of stars, I mean, that gains a ton of traction from like the vibe coding community and everyone else. But the next one I wanted to cover is the Google work. Workspace CLI.
So Google Workspace, meaning Google Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Google Sheets, Google Docs. Now, this is important because if you're using, let's say, VS Code like I am, and you have Cloud Code and Codex running in the background, there's no seamless integration like there is on Cloud Web App or ChatGPT Web App, where you can just one -click connect Google Drive.
This is a workaround if you're using an IDE like VS Code like I am that still gets you access. to my Google workspace. And it is the verified version.
This isn't some third party. So you got to be very cautious here. This is the verified version.
And one of the things that I do all the time with the Google workspace repo is I store a bunch of short form videos in there and Google drive folders. And so I can literally take a Google drive folder URL. Paste it in VS Code and have Cloud Code scan through all the videos, analyze the transcripts, and then create captions.
And then use Blotato, which is my social media tool, to automate all of the videos from that Google Drive folder. Like it's just all seamlessly connected, which is just that little quick example here. The next one I wanted to quickly cover is Anthropic who owns Claude.
They actually have a free public repository of skills, everything from a front end web design skill, which is something that I've used in the past, which actually is very good. In my opinion, they have an MCP skill. They have a skill creator skill, which I've used multiple times in the past to help create skills with best practices.
So for those who didn't know, Anthropic has their own official GitHub repository of skills, which is really cool to look at. And Aaron. feel free to chime in anytime as I'm just, I don't really want to just go through in like a typical school presentation, go through slides.
Like if you have thoughts or anything on how you're using these, like feel free to chime in as well. Yes. Well, speaking of school, I do want to shout out that Anthropic released their own teacher skill repo.
So if you're a professor, an educator, a principal, I can put a link in the description on the video post, but it's things specifically for teachers. Again, the whole point of this, like Claude can do pretty good front end design, but they're giving you a list of instructions that has a more narrow focus than if you just opened a chat and said, hey, Claude, design a landing page.
It's almost like steps or procedures in plain text. So my other thing I want to chime in is use people's skills, but you can fork them because all these things are free. They're public.
So take your skill repo with 10 things in there. I might really like something yours does with landing pages, but add my own to it. Just tell your agent, copy Ryan's thing.
add this on top of it and put it in my GitHub. You don't even have to share that with people. You can make it private.
I'm a big fan of customizing because you're not going to want everything somebody does, but skills are amazing for inspiration and ideas and like, oh, I didn't know it could do this. Now make it your own. Yeah.
And that's a great point. You always want to repurpose skills. You never want to take Ryan Dozer's landing page skill with my copywriting, my branding, Ryan Dozer everywhere.
You want to repurpose that with your own context and branding and et cetera. the other one too, like, I think I found this one. I've used it before with the last 30 days where it can scrape the last 30 days of your history of what you've been doing inside Claude code.
So, or any topic here is what this says has 66 K stars. Yeah. Search the last 30 days of sources you've set up.
So it looks like it analyzes the last 30 days of what you've been doing, and then it can find any insights or update opportunities. And I know Anthropic actually has, I think it's called insights. They have default slash commands and insights is one of those.
I think it's very similar to this last 30 days. The last 30 days is a good news one.
So say there's a topic. I actually worked on a team at a company that we use this as part of our daily things. What's the internet saying about Claude, AI, data centers?
What's new in the news? And it can search Reddit. Twitter, YouTube, you need API keys for some of the sources, but a lot of it's free.
It's like a pulse check on the internet. Interesting. Yeah.
And by the way, I'll leave all these GitHub repos in the description below where you guys can literally copy and paste them and then use them however you want to. Uh, the next one is fire crawl. So fire crawl, I've, I've used this in the past is a, I would say an advanced web scraper, right?
So For those who have maybe seen the term web fetch, so web fetch is the default scraper of cloud models. And sometimes like the scraping world is such an interesting battle between like websites blocking certain scrapers and scrapers finding workarounds and fire crawl.
From my experience, I haven't used it probably in the past few weeks or so, but when I was using it, they have a really generous free plan, by the way. They tend to have more advanced scrapers, I would say, than what you get with like a default web fetch. So that's something to consider if you're doing a lot of web scrap.
This is one I use every day, the Google Search Console MCP. Google Search Console is a free tool offered by Google that literally monitors all the website traffic and views and clicks that you're getting from Google Search. They also have Google AI overviews now, so you can look at your AI data inside Google Search Console.
And so from an SEO perspective, think about the power of integrating a Google Search Console MCP with your existing AI setup versus previously you'd have to manually go into Search Console, look at all your data the past 28 days, find impression gaps or click gaps. Try to find different content update opportunities. Maybe there's some new ideas in there.
Well, guess what? You can literally in one slash command or one prompt, use the Google search console MCP and ask things like which pages are losing clicks. You know, compare these things, compare that.
Give me three update opportunities. And if you're using an Astro Cloudflare GitHub website stack, you can then all implement that in the same chat or a new chat. And it's seamless.
It's absolutely seamless. Like this is one of my favorite, I would say MCPs or GitHub. that I'm using on a daily basis for myself at ryandozer .com, but also the various SEO clients that I'm working with.
And it's funny because look, 167 stars, that's nothing compared to these big popular ones. And I feel like you're calling me out a little bit. I get the emails from Google search console and it'll tell me there's a problem with a page or a 404 thing.
I forward it, I forward it to my agent and say, fix it. But I should just go straight to the MCP and let my agent see these tools without me having to like open it in a, in a Chrome browser. So I'm, I'm adding this one as soon as we're done recording.
Be careful though. This is like a one that I found that doesn't have a lot of like, doesn't have any security issues and it works flawlessly like there's other ones out there that are probably made by third parties like trying to spoof a google search console mcp and like get access to your data for their own benefits so just be very cautious with that give us so give us a sample tip because i'll practice this let's say i open up claude and i say hey grab this repo but before you plug it in or before we use it what should i ask claude to do analyze, scrape the entire GitHub repository and look for any malicious files, look for literally any signs of malicious or malintent of something that it's going to, I don't know, potentially take API keys or steal my data.
Like I would just be broad and just say like, do a quick analyze or check if it's going to do anything malicious to my existing setup. I would just start with that. Gotcha.
Yeah, like prompt injecting. I've seen that in GitHub repos where it gives instructions and your AI agent, at least older models would follow it and like... put in something that syncs all your data with them.
And yeah, I'll try that with the Google search console. So on the same topic of SEO, I haven't actually, I've tried this once, but I don't use it daily. I use data for SEO.
It's kind of my go -to SEO tool now, but those who have been in the SEO space for a while, Ahrefs and SEMrush, those are the two big boys and they still are. But this guy, he basically cloned. SEM Rush or Ahrefs called it OpenSEO and charges 10 bucks a month and basically has the whole thing available in a public GitHub repo.
Now he is using data for SEO behind the scenes for what he is doing. And so that's why I don't use it. And I'll just go straight to the source and pull data from SEO from their MCP.
But for those who are looking for, you know, a $10 a month solution that's similar to an SEM Rush or an Ahrefs type feel, this one might be a good solution here. And here's the thing, because the GitHub repo is publicly available.
Like if I type in OpenSEO GitHub, you could literally come in here, copy the GitHub repo URL and say like, clone my, or make a fork of my own version of OpenSEO. And here's what I want in my SEO tool. And here's what I don't want.
You can make your own version of this. That's why this is so powerful. And you'll see it has over 25 ,000 stars.
So it is gaining popularity and all of these giant SEO SaaS companies like Ahrefs and SEMrush, which. SCM Rush went public. I think they just got bought by Adobe not too long ago.
They they are coming after. I mean, they are losing their moat one day at a time. Data is the only moat that those tools have anymore just because they've collected 10, 15 years plus of high value website data from all the different people that have used their tools over the years.
But slowly but surely, we are going to have more open SEOs come into the equation. And I'm a big fan of this. I'm all for it.
So let's say somebody goes and hits fork on here. Since we talked about a prompt to give your agent before you use or clone a repo. A fork is duplicate it, but now it's my own.
And then I would tell people to do same thing, scan it for security issues, malicious intent. Let's say it's clean. Now tell it, I run these websites.
I have a blog. I do landing pages to sell a digital product, whatever it is. What should I add or take away from this to customize to my use case?
And if your AI agent has a bunch of your work in it, like a cloud project, it'll know exactly what to give you or to take out. Well, here's the other thing, too. Like if I'm using VS Code and I have all my client work and cloud code and codex all synced up to that, I could literally just say scan through my entire VS Code workspace and figure out all the work that I'm doing with my current SEO clients and figure out what's valuable here of what I should include and what I shouldn't include.
Like, again, you can literally outsource a lot of this to have AI help you out in building this. If you want to provide more context and more direction, obviously that's better. But if you don't even know where to start, just say scan my entire.
vs code workspace or ai setup if you're not using vs code and it will help provide like actionable direction from there um well cool let's move on to the next one here uh news jack uh news jack is an open source basically open source skills that turn your ai agent into a full pr team um so this one gained a lot of popularity on x uh shocker because i feel like a lot of these news jack I feel like a lot of these GitHub repos, that's where they start is they gain all this popularity on X and then they blow up.
So yeah, 1 .7 K stars. So this is essentially where you can have an AI agent train off of this and act as your PR outreach person, meaning that, and this is kind of what I'm starting to do right now on rindoser .com is I'm putting together these like quote unquote research articles where it's actually taking my own data of things that I'm working on behind the scenes.
Turning these into articles, of course, with not including any confidential data by any means, but turning these into actual things that would be worthy of stories or something a journalist would want to pick up and write an article about. And this is always this is the hardest part of SEO is PR outreach, getting high quality backlinks and brand mentions.
And this news jack just helps essentially automate that process. I haven't actually, I think I've used this before, but then I got caught up doing something else. So again, I would like have your agent scan this repo and just say in plain English, what can this help me do?
But it's essentially, it's your PR outreach person where it'll find like journalist emails, it'll craft, you know, take your existing content, craft emails, pitch journalists, basically trying to get you featured in the media and get you backlinks is what this whole thing is trying to do here.
I haven't heard of that one either. So you're teaching me stuff. Yeah, this is a good one.
And again, you can repurpose your own version. But one quick point I will make is that when people in SEO, like they always say, oh, I can't get backlinks and no one wants to feature me and dah, dah, dah. Well, it's like usually the culprit is why don't you actually create content that people care enough to feature, right?
Like people just. think that their respun cloud or chat GPT bullshit article is good enough to be featured in the New York Times or something that someone's going to mention them or give them a link. Like you have to create interesting shit.
That's really what it comes down to, to start getting backlinks and brand mentions and placements like that. Well, cool. Hyperframes.
Aaron, I think you have a lot to say on this one because I know you use hyperframes, but this is a free open source framework from HeyGen. HeyGen being the popular AI avatar generator released hyperframes, which, Basically, I use HyperFrames to actually make this presentation, like these slide decks, and I also use them in my videos.
So it's a free software you can add to your video editing system and it can create like motion graphics, visuals, completely free to use and really has changed the game when it comes to AI video editing, in my opinion. So what are your more advanced thoughts on this than what I have about HyperFrames? Because I think you use this more than I do.
Yeah, I've used it three times already today and it's only lunch. Here's what I'll say. I'm going to give them credit.
They're a video editing company that did things the traditional way. And then I want to say, I don't know, February or so, early this year, they said, we're going to create a whole new way that you can edit video through HTML, which if you're not a coder, I'm not either. Don't be intimidated.
It's just a visual coding language. It's what every website is fundamentally in is like HTML. It's a way to display stuff.
Well, guess what's good at writing in HTML? Not Aaron. Aaron's coding tool.
Claude Code, Codex, Grokbot, whatever. And this idea is like now your agent can do visual things with code. And then it's easy to edit because one of the problems with videos, once you render in captions, they're just burned in the video.
You can't get them out. But HTML lets it say here's a box with captions. Behind it, here's a box with Aaron.
It's free. You don't even have to pay per use. Like your AI agent is all you need to run this.
And then the other thing that's cool is they actually have a desktop app because a lot of people said that opens in a local host in a browser tab. And it's like, I still need a visual interface, some sort of timeline or like draw and say, put it over here. So they actually have Hyperframe Studio, which is a desktop app.
I know it's out on Mac. I don't know about Windows and Linux. And I put our Tuesday, two days ago podcast in there and it has a transcript based editor.
I plugged in three feeds, your camera, my camera and your screen share. It lined them up. It gave me a transcript to edit by.
And it's just running through Claude code on my computer. And I don't have to pay anybody stupid AI credits to use it. So I'm a huge fan.
That's the biggest thing here. Yeah, use a repo to come up with a video editing skill. So maybe you clip a podcast, maybe you do explainers, maybe it's recorded lectures, whatever your uses are.
Have it use hyperframes and then just update the skill every day when you're done using it and say, what did we learn? What styles, colors, captions, edits, intros, outros, music, whatever, and just... keep that in a GitHub repo of your own.
And then when you go to edit a video with HyperFrames tomorrow, say pull up my video editing repo, cut five clips from this to be a Instagram reel, and it can just run on your computer. So I'm a huge fan. I use it every day.
Yeah, HyperFrames is legit. Postus, actually a competitor to Blotato, which is a client of mine. But the reason I included them is because they actually have a full GitHub public GitHub repo.
So if you do post these GitHub and again, I'll leave all this in the description below. But the brain reason I included them is because. Basically, you can take this public GitHub repo, 40K stars, which again, this is actually how they got off the ground and became popular is because they open sourced and made a free public GitHub repo.
So that's an entire marketing strategy in itself. But what you can do here is, again, clone this or fork it. And if you want to make your own social media scheduling app for AI agents to use in Clod or ChatGPT or whatever, you can make your own version of this and create your own social media scheduler.
And that's why I wanted to include it because I think that's something a lot of people might be interested in. And if they like tinkering around with their own social media and they don't want to pay, you know, like. Buffer or Hootsuite.
$40, $50 a month for some of those. Exactly. And it's not free.
You still have to pay some API stuff on the back end to post through social media and whatnot. That's my question for you though, Ryan. So why wouldn't I self -host and do this myself versus they have a paid plan of, let's just say $20 a month.
What's that take for me if I want to self -host a tool like this? I haven't actually done it, so I can't give you an exact amount. But for those who are interested in customizing their own solutions, like the vibe coders and that, that's what this community is geared towards are those people.
Yeah, I haven't used this one, but I think we both have self -hosted simple things. But the answer is you're talking just like that stuff. Yeah, like say you want this to be able to post to your Twitter.
You're just like, hey, Claude, post a tweet for me through a self -hosted version of this. You're going to need a developer account on the social media platform, and you're going to pay per use. Sometimes it's like a cent, but it's not free.
Instead of $20 a month to get access, and they're going to keep the difference between their API cost to post your stuff and what you pay every month. So it isn't free. And then you're also responsible for like updates and security issues.
If there's a vulnerability in it. Back to the whole vibe coding. Should I vibe code it or should I just buy it?
Yeah. And I don't vibe code this for multiple reasons, but that's one of them is my social accounts and the companies I work with. If I got those banned, that would be a major issue.
So it's worth it. It's not free to self -host is my point. Yeah.
And that's what I put here. I just said best for vibe coding your own scheduler if you really want to. So I know there's a group of people out there who love vibe coding their own things and all the customization things they can put on it.
That's why I included it here, because you may not have known that this even existed versus just saying, here's Hootsuite .com, vibe code Hootsuite. That's not going to accomplish much versus actually giving it a full public GitHub repo with everything in it. Yes.
So this is just kind of a slide where we talk about prompt injections and fake stars and how people are manipulating popularity and just all the security issues and prompt injections that you need to be aware of when it comes to actually getting these public GitHub repos. So I think that was really all I had for the slides here.
Aaron, anything else you wanted to share or comment on this topic of best free GitHub repositories in case I missed any here? Yeah, let me share my screen because I have a little document. It's not as sexy as yours.
So here's mine. And I did a mix of big ones that have tens of thousands, 100 ,000 plus stars, and then small one, which is my own. I am a big fan of having some sort of gate that AI generated writing has to go through before you post it, publish it, send it.
If you haven't made your own, don't just take mine and use it. fork mine it's called an ai writing audit there'll be links to all of this in the show notes and it takes common patterns and says this sounds like claude and it does a change log of edits to the ai generated output and cleans it up for you and i'm always updating it every month or two you can add your own if there's certain things you never want it to use but then you can put in a hook Or a system prompt that says anytime another person's going to read the generated text, use this skill before you ship it, send the message, or post it.
Huge fan of that. I think everybody's kind of building their own. Yeah, I have an anti -slop skill that I actually use for literally every single written output in VS Code that I'm using, whether it came from Cloud Code or Codex.
There's a rule in there in my agents .md file where it has to pass the anti -slop rule. If it doesn't pass that, well, you better keep working on it until it passes the rules and outlines there. Yeah.
And maybe what we should do is like merge ours into one super one. We'll have to do that another time. Another one's Herder.
So we don't talk about terminals a lot. And I used to think terminals are dead. Use a desktop app or a VS Code type IDE is your preferred solution.
But Herder, which is free and open source, so you can customize it. I have some crazy elements to mine just for fun. But it lets you work across different terminal sessions, across different computers in different environments, all from one UI.
So I have a Mac Studio. I have a MacBook. I have a Linux desktop.
I have Grokbot's virtual machine. I can use local coding agents from one terminal on any one of those devices and control jobs locally on those other ones. So if you're somebody who likes to use coding agents on device, not in the cloud, you should definitely try out herder and it's totally free so not only do you not have to pay but you can like customize it i've never heard of that one um i don't use a lot of local models just because i i mean i have mac mini and i have a macbook pro but it's like they're so bloated now at this point with like apps and other things that i've been using so unless i have like a new device dedicated for local ai models i'm probably not going to explore that okay let me clarify Running locally.
So like Claude Opus, when I do video projects, I start them on a Mac studio. Yeah. But then I can open up Herder if I want to on a MacBook and walk away, be in another country because I'm on a VPN and I can connect all those in one terminal.
I can see all of them instead of like switching tabs. So I don't do a ton with local models either just because I don't have crazy hardware. Okay, Cloudflare OS.
Here's one. If you've ever worked on a team and you were worried that the non -technical people would break stuff or vibe code a bunch of slop, one of the main reasons why Cloudflare built this Cloudflare OS is it connects teams' work together. You can use...
tokens through their portal to run models. But you can also do these little one -off tools that are sandboxed so they don't leak anywhere or break anything or access any company data that a non -technical person wouldn't know how to safeguard. And it's kind of like a digital operating system for your company.
So if you're on a team that has some non -developers that are messing with this stuff, you should check out Cloudflare OS. One I use every day is Whisper. Everybody should have a local model.
Doesn't have to be a big one because all we're doing is transcription. So if I pull a video file and I just want to transcript, I don't want to have to send it in the cloud to chat, GBT or Claude. I want to have something on device that's small.
The biggest ones are like four gigs, I think. So even a little laptop can run these. You can transcribe any video or audio without anything leaving your device and going on the internet.
So Whisper is a great one. There's like three different sizes, I think. That's the one that I use.
There's a lot of ones like Whisper, aren't there, floating around? Yeah, and there's new ones all the time.
NVIDIA is really focused on transcription models. They just released a huge one yesterday, but I can't host it. That's what I thought.
You need real NVIDIA compute to run it.
Most popular one that I know of, in fact, one of the most starred GitHub repos of all time. If you haven't heard of Matt Pocock, he has one just called Slash Skills. And it's for people building tools.
He's a developer. And what I've learned from him is the vocabulary and the terminology and the approach to building like web apps and software and landing pages. makes me more technical and helps me get my AI tool to understand what I want better.
So I'm a huge fan of his and he's big on like YouTube and Twitter. If you haven't checked him out, he's the bald guy with glasses and like a British accent. Okay.
His, his skills repo is amazing. Um, especially for people like Ryan, you're like, I'm not technical, but come on, dude, you're, you're technical enough. He's a perfect, uh, resource for people like us.
I'll check that out. Last one. From Google, and this one has 28 ,000 stars.
I'm shocked it's that few. A lot of us started making skills for writing and coding. They came up with a whole new primitive, like a type of file.
That's a design .md. And you can take a link to rindoser .com, give this GitHub repo to your agent and say, build me a design .md. Visually, I want to be able to recreate this with fidelity.
So it can be... Web design, app design, video design, anything that you look at and see colors and shapes, animations, things like that. It puts it in a language that your agent can actually understand and use.
So like, let's connect that to HeyGen. You should have a design .md for your style of videos or your podcast and then use that through HeyGen and have Claude or Codex edit your video and you'll get way better, more consistent outputs. Awesome.
Yeah. And we'll leave all those links in the description below. Same with all the other ones that I talked about on my slides too.
But last point I wanted to make Aaron is that, you know, like our last GitHub video that we made, I got a couple of comments from people and they're like, well, this is great, but you didn't actually show me how to do anything. Well, it's like, Hey dude, why don't you actually just. First of all, you can ask AI, take the video transcript, plug it into AI and say, what should I do?
And it'll give you a step -by -step direction. But I guess people just can't think that far ahead is where I'm going with this. And if you don't know the answer, ask AI.
But the first thing you should do is create a free GitHub account. And then you should sync that GitHub account to whatever your AI system is of choice. In Cloud and ChatGPT, they make this very seamless.
It's like one -click integration. And then in Cloud Code or Codex, if you're using like VS Code or an IDE, or in the terminal, you have to go through an authentication step, which is kind of confusing.
But again, if you don't know, take screenshots, copy paste, ask AI to help you go through it. That's exactly what I did. So get a free GitHub account, connect it to your AI system of choice.
Try start using some of these free repos and just start playing around with GitHub and you'll start to quickly understand why it's such a popular and useful tool in this AI era. It's the that you can take to any other AI agent or project. That's how I think of it.
Yeah, I love that. And the final point I'll make in this episode before we conclude, Aaron, back to my original tweet that I had, don't be a victim and don't be closed minded. Like just because you don't understand something, which there's a lot, I mean, a lot in this AI world that I don't understand.
There's a lot that you don't understand, but that doesn't mean I'm anti what I don't understand. If I don't understand it, but it's going to benefit me in some way. Well, guess what?
I'm going to spend the time to figure it out because that's just who I am. I take initiative and I want to get ahead in life. And I don't want to sit here and be a victim and let other people try to take care of me and just complain as my life goes on.
And that's just, I don't know. We just need more like open -minded people, I guess, in general is where I'm going with this as I keep rambling. But Aaron, any other concluding thoughts on that?
Because I'm just going to stop right there before I say something I shouldn't. Yeah. Oh, that's why we like you, man.
We get the fire from you. I say it's like Brussels sprouts. How many people tell me they don't like them?
And I go, oh, how many times have you had them? Well, I haven't, but I know I don't like it. These people are ranting about AI that have literally never used it for more than like a chat box saying what AI can't do or AI is this.
And I'm like, the other one is don't listen to those people. I block them in my feed. I blocked 20 people that replied to my tweet the other day.
Because it's like, I'm not wasting my brain cells on these people. Not everyone likes me or my thoughts. I'm not offended, but...
I also tell my kids this, like the teacher went on a rant about AI generated YouTube thumbnails. And first of all, I said, what's that have to do with it? That's what we're using.
You should have been like, hey, that's what dad's using. He actually said that. He gave him my YouTube channel, which is not nearly as good as yours.
And he's like, I think my dad uses AI for that, but not for the video. And I told him, you know why? Because I'm not a thumbnail designer, but I know click rate, click through rate on YouTube is everything.
And all the video editing that I'm decent at means nothing if the packaging sucks. And those are people criticizing a system they don't understand. Like the shop teacher at my kid's school, shout out to him, does not know what CTR is on YouTube and why it matters to me.
And if we had to hire a human designer. I'm not big enough on YouTube to justify 500 bucks for a good thumbnail. I've seen what companies pay agencies for that.
And it's like, well, GPT image 2 .5 is way better than I can do. So let's just use that. Why don't you take the rationally optimistic approach here and realize that AI has truly leveled the playing field for solo operators like myself, small businesses who can create a website like we talked about in our previous episodes that would cost $10 ,000 plus hiring an agency or hiring designers, hiring freelance.
It's like, it literally leveled the playing field. All you have to do is open your mind and start to figure out what AI can do beyond just pulling up chat GPT on my phone or, oh, hey, I saw an ad from Claude.
That Claude thing sounds cool. Like if you actually use Claude code or codex just to name a few AI coding agents, the light bulb will turn on and you'll start to understand like, holy shit, the opportunities here really are endless. Which is the real superpower in 2026 and even more going forward.
It's curiosity. That's what it is. Like even just ask Claude Code, can you do this?
99 % of people will never do that. If you even try, you're ahead of them. Well, that's a good, that's a good pattern that I've noticed is that anyone who uses AI coding agents or has in the past Codex, Claude Code, I mean, OpenCode, if you're going to go there, like even Gemini's or others.
They're usually not the closed -minded individuals or anti -AI crowd that I'm talking about here because these people have fully realized the capabilities and the benefits of what using an AI coding agent can provide for their own well -being. Yeah, which is what this channel is all about. Like you're going to be inherently curious because you're going to see stuff every week from us.
They go, I got to check that out. I got to add that. I got to fork it.
I got to use it. Yeah. And if you want to keep being closed minded and chase the low IQ top of funnel AI traffic, like have at it.
Keep doing that. Keep saying keep staying scared and don't actually ship anything useful. And I'm not going to try to convince you any other path here.
But with that being said, before I keep talking, Aaron, thanks again for hopping on. And thanks again to everyone for watching or listening to this edition of the AI Rabbit. Podcast.
Be sure to tune in again next time.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
The episode opens on a supercut of its own ending: a rant that the real advantage in 2026 is curiosity, and that 99% of people will never even ask Claude Code whether it can do something. Then it gets practical, with 15 public repos a marketer can install today and the one scan to run before touching any of them.
How they asked for the click.
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