Find connections across 100 non-fiction books
Case study takeaway: pieter Maes pointed Claude Code at his personal library of non-fiction books. It automatically located thematic links across them and grouped them into named trails. The site shows dozens of trails, such as Useful Lies, Pacemaker Principle and Proxy Trap.
- Agent or tool
- Claude Code
- Topic
- Productivity
- Reported on
- Hacker News
- Added
- 2026-10-15
Why it matters
Small, repetitive tasks eat more of the week than anyone likes to admit. Cases like this show an agent taking a chore off someone's plate end to end, not just suggesting what to do. It is one of 196 sightings filed under Productivity on Agent Sightings (number 143 by interest), and one of 164 involving Claude Code.
How you could try it
Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into Claude Code or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.
Help me find connections across 100 non-fiction books. Break it into steps, show your work, and wait for confirmation before anything irreversible, paid, or outbound.
Tip: Start small: run it once on a low-stakes example, read what the agent did, and only then let it run on real work.
Source
Read the original first-hand account on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46576431. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.