Riley Browns KI-Agenten-Stack: Claude Code, Codex und Composio

[Riley Brown] There are so many AI agent tools out there, and it's starting to get incredibly overwhelming. So I spent $10,000 testing all of the different AI agent tools in pursuit of finding the greatest agent stack that exists today. And I've settled on what I think is the best stack of tools that I use for administrative tasks, running my business, and growing my following to over 2 million followers across all platforms. So today we're talking about my full AI agent stack and all of the main use cases for each one. I think you're going to be surprised at how I use these three agent platforms. It's a little bit different than how most people use them. And we're also going to be talking about a tool that sits at the center of my agent platforms that makes it easier to switch between them, and it allows me to share plugins and skills. Okay, so many people ask me, "When do I use Claude Code, and when do I use Codex?" And so for these first eight use cases, that's exactly what we're going to be talking about. And so the first way that I use Claude Code, that I think everyone should 100% be using, is Claude Projects. And so I made a video about a week ago where I said that you should not be using normal Claude, and that you should be using Claude Code, because it's so much more powerful and it has access to all of the files on your computer. And running Claude Code locally on your computer allows you to use prompts like this: "Hey, there's a folder in my downloads called October 26th vlog, please edit the video and post it on YouTube." And Claude Code can end-to-end complete this full task. But there's also another setting in Claude Code that you should 100% be aware of, right? Not only can you run it on your computer, you can also run it in a cloud session. It'll actually spin up a little computer, do anything that Claude Code might want to do, it's just not running locally on your computer. And for a lot of tasks, that's really useful, because you don't actually need your computer for all of the different tasks. And so if you think this is confusing, that's perfectly okay, because Claude Projects will actually manage this entire process. On the left here, you can see all of the Claude projects that I've created. And here I've opened up Editor. And so this main session is just a coordinator session, and it will spin up different Claude sessions, whether it is a local session or a session on my computer. So I can say something like this, "Hello, I need you to please look at my latest videos in my downloads, and I want you to make three clips and edit these locally on my computer, and upload them to Drive and give me a link to all three." So I can fire that prompt, and look at this: it was actually sent to an existing thread. So sent to a thread, here's a vertical clips from side channel video, and if you see right here, we can see that this is running locally on my computer. And so if I click on threads, I can actually see all of the different threads that are running right now. Some of which are on the computer, and in some of which are in the cloud, like this one is in the cloud, and all of these threads are are running in the cloud. And so right now, we see that my local session is working. And if I click on this, we can see that the prompt that I entered here was automatically passed to this local session, and now Claude Code is working, and it's working locally on my computer. But I can say, "Hey, while that's working, I actually want you to look up best practices and create a little artifact for this. Like, I want to create like a little web page artifact that I can use and send to my team on best practices for clipping long-form videos into short-form. This can just be done in the cloud." And so I can fire this prompt in the main thread, or the coordinator thread called Editor, which is a Claude project, and here, look at this, it says, "Write clip." So it just created a new session. Notice here there's no little computer icon, this one's actually running in the cloud. And this is really useful because I can do all of this from my phone. And so if we open up the Claude iOS app, and I click on this side panel right here, and then I can see all of my projects right here. So if I click on Editor, I can see the sessions that are running right now. And so as long as my computer is on, I can fully control my computer using Claude Projects, right? Here we can see that the web one is done. So let me click on this, it should have sent me a page, here is the artifact that it sent me, and I can very easily see it. This is a sharable artifact that I can share with my team, and this is pretty cool. It's pretty easy. It shows the framing and safe zones, which is pretty cool. And one of my favorite things that I do with Claude Projects is I will come down here to the bottom, I will press this button, open up the artifact, and then I'll just speak out the changes that I want to make. "I actually want this to be better format, and and just make the design a lot better and the top table, change it please." And it allows me to just record my voice, and I can create artifacts, and that's exactly how I created this presentation right here. I created this presentation this morning using Claude Projects from my phone walking back from the gym. I had this idea for this video, I said "create this slide deck," and I have a very specific skill that I use for it. And when I got back, it was done. And so I use Claude Projects to coordinate my Claude sessions, whether that's cloud sessions or my local sessions that are running on my computer. And this is very similar to how I use Codex or their new dots feature. You can, very similarly, you can speak to your dot, and you can get it to coordinate Codex sessions. And we'll talk about that a little bit later, but now, for the next three items on this list, I want to talk about how I use Claude Code or why I use Claude Code and what sets Claude Code apart from Codex. And so the first one is building apps. Some of you will recognize this, I talk about this in a previous video, but I have my own internal tool that is a mixture of like 10 different SaaS apps that I use for everything, and that includes Excalidraw, right? We have all of my Excalidraw documents. This is my own clone of Excalidraw. All of it is stored in my own internal tool. I also have My Mind built in, which stores all of my bookmarks. I have all of my YouTube analytics, and I even have my own video editing platform that I will talk about a little bit later. And in order to manage this entire site, I have this thing called Native Note. So this is called Native Note, and this is where I build this app and make changes to this app. And so on my phone, I could very easily go to Projects, and we can move to my Agent Native Site, my Native Note project. And say, "Hey, what I need you to do right now is I actually don't like how on Native Note it has my pinned videos, can you please remove that? And then also move the Kanban title to the top, we also don't need that little subtitle or this like horizontal line. And then, Riley, make the filter by title thing, make it pinned to the left instead of on the right, don't, and, yeah, please make the background have a little bit more texture to it, almost like it's like a whiteboard. Keep it subtle." And I can fire that prompt off. Notice how I didn't specify whether I wanted it to be local or in the cloud. It will decide whether it needs my local computer or not. And we've been working a lot, and here, I've sent the Kanban cleanup to this thread which I can click on, and here it is now building. And here you can see it received the message from the coordinator, and it'll begin working. And so you can see here that Opus 5.5 is running on a Claude Code session that is running locally on the computer, and it is done with three out of the four tasks. It has made all those changes that we just asked, and now it's just waiting to deploy, so it actually shows up in Native Note. Okay, so now it is done, and it should be live. And so if we go to Native Note, we press command R, and we refresh it, we see that we now have a new app here. It is updated. And so anytime I want to change to the app, whether I'm on my phone or my computer, I can just ask Claude Projects, and it will figure out how to do it. And so that is why I use Claude Code, specifically Projects, to build apps. And so the next thing that I use Claude for, specifically Claude Projects, is I use it for design and slides. Yesterday, Anthropic released their S-1, which is a required document outlining a ton of different things that's required before an IPO. And on my phone, using Claude Projects, specifically I was using my Rick, Claude, Cloud Project, which is basically like Claude Duet, which is my own little personal agent, but I just think Projects is better. I talked to this agent on my phone, I was like, "Yo, this S-1 came out, it's very text-heavy and data-heavy, I need to properly visualize it, organize it how we normally organize my videos and create a slide deck." And like, this is what it created. It shows all of the data in this very easy to understand format. Where the money goes, I could look at their revenue, their operating costs, and what I've noticed is Anthropic's models, especially Opus 5.5, is just incredible at visualizing information. Take any information in the world, a PDF that's super data-heavy or an Excel sheet, and just tell it to turn it into like this visual thing. Like here it says, "Here is the amount of customers who spend around 250," or "250 spend 10 mil or more, 1900 people spend a million or more," and it just creates these little visual diagrams. Here it shows revenue retention, so a customer spent a dollar a year earlier, that same customer spends $9 now, which is just absolutely unheard of. And it goes through all of its compute, it takes me through everything, all of their risks, and then also it just has really good organization. Many of you who watch my videos know that I have this working outline that gets filled in as we go through the video. And so it's super cool, and then I had it do a data section at the end, and so we can look at all the raw numbers, and it created this in three prompts. I just went back and forth on my phone, saying, "Hey, can you change this, can you change this?" And this is how I learned about everything on the S-1 was just with this slide deck. And again, this is not just slide decks, too. This is also their Claude Design mode, which is integrated with Claude Projects. This is actually where I originally designed Native Note, as you can see here. This was how I kind of originally designed the entire app, and I just iterated with Claude. I think I did this one on my computer, but you can create these designs on your phone. Anything you do on your computer, you can now do on your phone with Claude Projects, which is why I use it so much. Just say, "Hey, create a Figma style design board, create you can create as many options as you want, and then you can just select the option that you want." You can say, "Hey, push this to prod," or "Implement these designs into the app that we're creating," and it can spin up a local session to do that. It may design it in the cloud, and may implement it using your computer, and you don't even need to like know that. You can just let your agent do its thing. And so I use it for slide decks and then creating Claude design. Now, here's for the most fun one and the most viable use case right now, and that is video editing. And so I've been using Claude nonstop to edit my videos. In fact, these two videos right here, this "How I'm Actually Using Claude Duet" and "How Smart People Are Using AI Right Now," both of these videos were fully edited by AI. Now there was some iteration, but they were edited by AI. And so using Claude Projects was also how I've been creating these animated explainer videos with a very specific style. And so as you can see here, I created with Claude, and we can actually see which model, so yeah, here are my prompts to create version one of this video, I used these prompts right here, and it created this video which explained one of Karpathy's tweets. With LLMs at all. Around 1 to 2 billion, about 20%, are casual and infrequent users of a free-tier ChatGPT-like products. This group sees derpy chatbots and treats them a bit like a better Google search, a writing aid, etc. Maybe an agent tries to book you a flight. I have non-tech friends who, reasonably, in my opinion, say they have not much use for it at all. Even many professionals outside of math and code are in this tier. And then that was just version one. This was actually version two of the video. I basically made some changes with these prompts using Claude Opus 5.5 on Projects, and it made the video much better, and it was more zoomed out. And I posted this video on Twitter, and it actually got 2,000 likes and 160k views, and many people were commenting, asking me about the skills. They're like, "Yo, share how you made it, and do you mind sharing the prompt that led to the graphics? Or is it just Opus 5.5 choice?" And by the way, this little app that you're seeing right here, this is V2. This is an app that I'm working on that will be free and open source. It is the GitHub for video editing, and it will allow your agents to create versions of the app that you create. And you'll be able to track all of the prompts and all of the different files that you use to create each video. And people on your team will be able to fork your video. You'll be able to share your videos and make them public, and yeah, I'm really excited about this project, and it is video editor agnostic. You can use any stack, you can use any agent, anything. All you do is copy a prompt, give it to Codex, and it will create version control for your video. And all you need to do is go to v2.video, and you can sign up for the waitlist. As soon as it's ready, we will send access to everyone who puts their email right here. I'm really excited about this. This is free, and this will always be free. This is the GitHub for video editing. Working on it right now with my team. Okay, so in summary, with Claude Code, it's just incredible at creating things, and I think the best orchestrator of creating things is Claude Projects, because you can create different projects, one for each of the apps that you're building. You can create an editor agent and a designer agent, and it's really useful. But there were also things that Codex is better at than Claude Code. And so now we need to move down the stack, and we're going to get to Codex. What if your inbox could become a plan you actually use? This part of the video is sponsored by Superhuman. As you guys know, I use AI tools for basically everything, and I already use Superhuman for email, but pulling together deadlines and feedback still takes work. Superhuman Mail and Superhuman Docs are part of the Superhuman productivity suite. Mail is the email app, Super Docs is a collaborative workspace for documents, tables, and project trackers. Both have connectors for the AI tools you already use. Here's a workflow I want to show you in Chat GPT. First, I connect the Superhuman Mail and ask, "Find the emails about my upcoming videos, what are the deliverables, deadlines, and latest feedback?" Then using Super Docs connector, it will turn that into a content calendar with a next action for every video. Flag anything that's missing. Now I have a plan I can review against the actual emails. When something changes, I can ask the AI to update the document. Try Superhuman Connectors today. You can sign up for Superhuman using my link in the description. So the first way that I use Codex, all like all day every day basically, is dots with voice. So if we were to measure how I use AI in minutes, this is the number one way I use AI. And I've gotten into a routine. I go to the gym in the morning, but I leave an hour and a half early, and I walk around for an hour before I go to the gym talking to my dot. So Dot is the personal agent platform that is in Chat GPT. And I think the correct way to think about Dot is it is a Codex orchestrator. The same way that Claude Projects can delegate to Claude Code sessions, Dot can delegate to Codex sessions. And the same way that Claude Code can spin off cloud sessions and sessions running on your computer, Dot can do the same thing with Codex. So I can call Dot, "Hey, Riley, good to hear you." "Hey, Pal, I need you to check the recent changes that I've made to Native Note. Can you spin up a new Codex session, investigate it, and I actually want you to add that same background that we added to Native Note to the other pages like to the background of the list view, and in the calendar view as well. Can you spin up a new Codex session and then uh push your changes to prod?" "On it. I'll look into a fresh Codex session and dig through those recent changes now. I'm getting a new session ready for that background update now, including a prod push once it's checked." "Thank you, buddy." "Of course." And look at this. It shows "unify Native Note backgrounds." If I click on this right here, we can see that it's spun up. Things are waiting, the new Codex session is running on your MacBook Pro and inspecting Native Note. The changes and production push are still ahead. I'll keep an eye on it and let you know as soon as there's something to review. Okay, that's great. Yup, I can see the Codex session running in the sidebar. While that's running, can you actually spin up a new cloud session real quick and just do some research for me on how people are video editing with AI? I want like an in-depth report, and you can create a pages, you know, a and GPT space you have the new page feature, I want you to create pages, I want diagrams of exactly how this is working, and um and uh yeah, that's what I kind of want to know, is like what are the strategies people are using, what are the types of skills people are using, put it in a GPT pages, and yeah, spin this out in and put Codex using the GPT-6 Soul model to do this." "Yep, I got it. I'll start that cloud session with GPT-6 Soul for the in-depth report on AI video editing with pages and diagrams showing how the tools and skills fit together. And meanwhile, I'll keep an eye on that Native Note session so we're not doing anything twice." "Amazing, yeah, cool." And then actually, once you're done with spinning up that session, can you do you mind just give me a little report here in the chat on like what videos I'm working on in in Notion, my long-form videos?" "Sure, I'll pull that up. I'll check Notion for your current long-form videos and put a short status report here in chat." "Thanks, Pal." And look at this, it shows "unify Native Note backgrounds." If I click on this right here, we can see that it's spun up. And there you have it. I am a content creator, and I'm starting a company called Agent Native, and these are all of the tools that I use. I use Claude Code, specifically Projects, to coordinate all of the assets that I need to create apps, designs, slides, video editing. I use Codex for its computer use, all business and coordination tasks, which are just such a high percentage of my business, is just coordinating with other people through email, Slack, and otherwise, and Codex can access my text messages as well, which is really useful. That means I can access my messages through voice with Dots, and that's kind of the main breakdown. And then obviously plug this into all of the other tools that I use, and the way that I centralize that is through Composio, and then Twitter is such a large part of my business, whether that's doing research or posting on Twitter, it's one of the main accounts. I connect it to Grokbot because it has full access to my Twitter account and doing research on Twitter. So this is like 90-plus percent of the things that I do with my agent stack, and as this evolves, I'll probably remake this video once every two months, because it will probably be different in two months, because the agent platforms will evolve. Meta might release a new model, Google might release a really good agent platform, it's really, really cool, and who knows, someone might release a better Composio competitor. And so, anyway, thank you guys so much for watching this video. I hope you guys got a lot of value. If there's something that you want me to create, or a video you want to see soon, let me know in the comments. I'll see you here for the next one.