Claude Code isn't just a coding tool—I've been using it for months to build multi-agent workflows that have nothing to do with code. Meeting notes, research systems, image pipelines, even jingle managers for a holiday app. Today I'm sharing the exact system I use. I was hand-building agent systems and kept seeing the same patterns everywhere: one agentic loop, different objectives. What if Claude Code—which is really just an opinionated agent with file management superpowers—could be given entirely different missions? Turns out, it can. In this video, I walk through my "Open Agent System"—a framework where you define agents as simple markdown files that progressively load into context only when needed. No special software. No coding required. Just describe what each agent should do, point it at your source files, and watch it work. I demo a full History Research system that: - Researches topics from the web and builds detailed markdown articles - Curates and validates images automatically - Generates beautiful HTML readers from the results - Can even spin up new agents on demand (like an Instagram poster) in seconds I also compare this approach to Anthropic's new Skills feature. Skills are elegant and portable across Claude AI, the API, and Claude Code. But they're probabilistic (the model has to "decide" to use them), and they're Claude-only. My system works with Gemini CLI, Codex, Cursor—anything that reads instruction files. The open agent definition file is available for free on GitHub. Clone it, point Claude Code at it, describe what you want to build, and you'll have your own custom agent system in under 3 minutes. Links: Open Agent System Repository: Claude Code: Anthropic Skills Documentation: #ClaudeCode #AIAgents #OpenAgentSystem #NoCodeAutomation #AIWorkflow 00:00 - Intro 00:44 - New mental model 01:41 - Buyer beware 02:05 - Quick demo of the system 06:20 - Look Ma! No software! 06:50 - The system internals 08:46 - Create a new agent, anytime 09:55 - Have we met? 10:37 - Make it jingle! 12:07 - Testing our jingle 12:44 - Claude Skills 16:54 - Try it yourself! 19:33 - Conclusion