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After this you can set up Claude Code like a pro, build and paper-test a multi-exchange arbitrage scanner, run a team of AI agents on a schedule, and turn a free GitHub tool into a hosted service a local business pays you for every month.

Claude Code installed and your first tool built in 20 minutes. Arbitrage scanner in paper mode in one evening. First hosted service live in a weekend.

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You need

  • A laptop (Mac, Windows, or Linux) and a terminal you are willing to open. The Claude Code terminal guide at https://code.claude.com/docs/en/terminal-guide walks you through it if you never have.
  • A Claude account: Pro, Max, Team, or a Claude Console account with a few dollars of API credit at https://platform.claude.com/
  • A free GitHub account (github.com) so you can download repos and host code
  • Python 3.12 or newer installed (python.org), plus Docker Desktop (docker.com) for the hosting module
  • An exchange account for the arbitrage module (Binance, Kraken, Bybit, OKX or Coinbase all work with ccxt). Start with the testnet or paper mode, no deposit needed
  • Optional: a Grok account at grok.com for the Grok Bot modules, and a Stripe account at stripe.com to get paid

Set up Claude Code like a pro

Claude Code is an AI that lives in your terminal, reads your files, writes code, runs it, and fixes what breaks. This module gets it installed, teaches it your rules with a CLAUDE.md file, sets permissions so it moves fast without wrecking anything, and gives you the build loop every other module uses.

  • 1Install it in one line
  • 2Make a project folder and start your first session
  • 3Learn the three permission modes
  • 4Pre-approve the boring stuff
  • 5Write your CLAUDE.md (the file Claude reads every time)
  • 6Add one hook so a rule is enforced, not suggested
  • 7Give Claude a way to check its own work
  • 8The build loop you will use in every module
  • 9Add a skill for anything you repeat
  • 10Connect outside tools with MCP
  • 11Know what it costs

Tools: Claude Code, Claude Console, Homebrew, Git for Windows, Claude Academy: Claude Code 101

Full steps, prompts and settings unlock with the product.

The 50-market arbitrage bot blueprint

The viral bot was a cross-market arbitrage engine: it watched the same asset on many venues and acted when one price drifted from the others. Here is that architecture, built with ccxt (one library that talks to 104 exchanges) and Claude Code, with the fee and slippage math that decides whether a gap is real, and a paper mode you run first. Most people lose money trading. Only risk money you can afford to lose. This is not financial advice.

  • 1Understand what arbitrage actually is
  • 2Install ccxt and look at the fee data it already has
  • 3Do the break-even math before writing the bot
  • 4Pick your markets
  • 5Have Claude Code write the scanner in modules
  • 6Make a real-time feed when polling is too slow
  • 7Put the risk rules in code, not in your head
  • 8Run paper mode first, for real, for a week
  • 9Go live tiny, with testnet first
  • 10Add Freqtrade when you want a full bot frame

Tools: ccxt, ccxt manual, Freqtrade, Binance fee schedule, Kraken Pro fee schedule, GMGN, DexScreener, RugCheck

Full steps, prompts and settings unlock with the product.

The multi-agent team: roles, a shared task file, a schedule

One chat window is a chatbot. Several agents with one job each, a shared task list, and a timer is a team. This module builds it two ways: Claude Code subagents (cheap, inside one session) and Grok Bot routines (runs in the cloud on a schedule). You get the exact role prompts and the task-file format.

  • 1Pick the lighter tool first
  • 2Create the four role files
  • 3Give the team one shared task file
  • 4Run the daily loop by hand once
  • 5Put it on a timer inside the session
  • 6Move the schedule to the cloud when it must run without you
  • 7Build the same team in Grok Bot
  • 8Load a pre-made team instead of writing one
  • 9Add a quality gate the team cannot skip
  • 10Keep the token bill sane

Tools: Claude Code subagents, Claude Code agent teams, Session scheduling (/loop), Cloud scheduled tasks, Grok Bot templates guide, grok-bot-templates (community)

Full steps, prompts and settings unlock with the product.

Free repo to a 400 dollar a month service

A local business does not want software. It wants a result and someone else to run the thing. You take a free open-source tool, host it once for a few dollars a month, load their data, and charge a setup fee plus a monthly fee to keep it running. This module picks the repo, hosts it in a few clicks, finds the first client, prices it, and gets you paid through a Stripe link.

  • 1Pick a repo that produces a result a business already pays for
  • 2Check the license before you sell it
  • 3Host ListMonk in one click on Railway
  • 4Or host on a 6 dollar droplet
  • 5Connect a real email sender
  • 6Find the first client in your own town
  • 7Deliver in one sitting
  • 8Price it like a service, not like software
  • 9Get paid with a Stripe Payment Link
  • 10Report monthly so they never cancel
  • 11Repeat with the next repo

Tools: ListMonk, ListMonk on Railway (official template), Railway pricing, DigitalOcean Droplets, Render free tier docs, Postiz, WhisperX, Stripe Payment Links

Full steps, prompts and settings unlock with the product.

146 free ready-made bots and templates

You do not have to write every agent from scratch. There is a free, MIT-licensed pack of Grok Bot templates (profiles, teams, skills and routines) you load with one paste, plus a 7-bot crypto research desk that starts in read-only mode. This module shows where they live, how the counts actually break down today, how to pick one, and how to adapt it so it works for your business instead of someone else's.

  • 1Know what you are getting (and what the number means)
  • 2Understand how Grok Bot templates work officially
  • 3Load the pack with one paste (no code)
  • 4Or copy one profile by hand
  • 5Pick the three that pay back fastest
  • 6Try the trading desk with zero keys
  • 7Adapt a template in four edits
  • 8Use the same templates in Claude Code
  • 9Score a template before you trust it
  • 10Watch for secrets when you share your own

Tools: grok-bot-templates, START.md (paste into a Setup Bot), Templates for Grok Bot (official guide), HyperGrok Trading Desk, Claude Code subagents

Full steps, prompts and settings unlock with the product.

Build a whole company with 4 bots

A one-person business is really four jobs: decide what you sell, market it, serve customers, and keep the lights on. You hand each job to one bot, you stay the manager, and a weekly rhythm keeps the bots pointed at revenue. This module gives the four roles, the handoffs between them, the approval rules, and the Monday-to-Friday schedule, using the ListMonk service from Module 4 as the example business.

  • 1Name the business in one sentence first
  • 2Offer Bot owns what you sell and the price
  • 3Content Bot owns attention
  • 4Support Bot owns the customer
  • 5Ops Bot owns the to-do list and the money
  • 6Wire the handoffs through files, not chat
  • 7Set the approval rules in writing
  • 8The weekly rhythm
  • 9Teach by showing, once
  • 10Start with one bot today

Tools: Grok Bot templates guide, Claude Code subagents, Cloud scheduled tasks, Stripe MCP via Claude Code, Postiz, Claude Code hooks

Full steps, prompts and settings unlock with the product.

Free credits and cost control

Bots cost tokens and tokens cost money. This module shows the current Claude and Grok prices, where the free credits are (xAI's startup program and Anthropic's own discounts for caching and batching), and the three settings that stop a runaway bot from eating your card: spend limits, model choice, and context hygiene.

  • 1Know the Claude prices (as of Oct 2026)
  • 2Know the Grok prices (as of Oct 2026)
  • 3Apply for xAI startup credits
  • 4Use prompt caching: it is a 90 to 95 percent discount on repeats
  • 5Use the Batch API for anything that can wait: 50 percent off
  • 6Pick the smallest model that passes your check
  • 7Set a hard spend limit before the first bot runs
  • 8Lower effort and keep context small in Claude Code
  • 9Give agents a token budget and a timer
  • 10Read the bill once a week

Tools: Claude API pricing, xAI models and pricing, xAI startup program, xAI startup program terms, Prompt caching docs, Batch processing docs, Spend limits and rate limits, Claude Code cost management

Full steps, prompts and settings unlock with the product.

The prompt library

Twelve copy-paste prompts that cover the whole vault: setting up, scanning markets, running the team, selling the service, and keeping costs down. Each one tells the model what to read, what to produce, and how to check itself, which is the difference between a prompt that works once and a prompt that works every morning.

  • 1How to use these
  • 2Prompt 1: Interview me, then write the spec
  • 3Prompt 2: Live four-exchange price board
  • 4Prompt 3: Break-even calculator
  • 5Prompt 4: Freqtrade strategy in dry-run
  • 6Prompt 5: TradingAgents research run
  • 7Prompt 6: OpenBB data pull
  • 8Prompt 7: Daily morning brief routine (Grok Bot or cloud task)
  • 9Prompt 8: The adversarial reviewer
  • 10Prompt 9: Client outreach, ten variants
  • 11Prompt 10: Deploy and health-check a repo
  • 12Prompts 11 and 12: Monthly client report, then the cost audit

Tools: Claude Code skills (save prompts as slash commands), ccxt, Freqtrade, TradingAgents, OpenBB, Claude Code best practices

Full steps, prompts and settings unlock with the product.

13 step by step guides, with the prompts

The 50-market arbitrage bot a 19-year-old built with Claude Code

The viral $68 to $750,000 bot is a cross-market arbitrage engine: Claude...

CODEBOT

Build a whole company with 4 AI bots

The people who built the tool showed, live, how to run a...

COMPANY

146 free ready-made AI bots ($29,200 value)

A free pack of ready-made Grok bots that normally cost $50 to...

TEMPLATES

Turn free GitHub tools into a $400/mo service

Grab a free open-source tool, host it once for a local business,...

HOST

Get 6 to 12 months of Grok free (startup credits)

Grok for Startups gives you 6 to 12 months of free credits...

CREDITS

1,300 free 3D models, turn them into a game you sell

Over 1,300 ready-made 3D objects, free to use even in things you...

MODELS

12,000 free website designs, flip them for $300 to $800

A free library of 12,000+ ready-made website designs. Copy one, paste it...

PROMPTS

Build a full LBO model with Claude (free finance skill)

Anthropic's free financial-services plugin gives Claude Code an /lbo skill that builds...

LBO

Claude Duet instead of ChatGPT Dots (save $1,200/yr)

Claude Duet is the always-on agent on Opus 5.5, included in Claude...

DOTS

A free AI trading team (TradingAgents)

A real trading firm pays analysts, researchers, traders and risk managers millions...

CREW

Run a 25-bot overnight Grok team (not a chatbot)

On Grok (SuperGrok Heavy) you can run a coordinated overnight team of...

BOTS

OpenBB + Freqtrade: the free $30K/year terminal replacement

OpenBB gives you the live data, charts and screeners a Bloomberg seat...

TERMINAL

Build a free live trading chart on 4 exchanges

One free tool called ccxt, plus Claude Code, builds you a live...

CHART

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This vault teaches you to build tools. Some of those tools touch markets. Most people lose money trading. Only risk money you can afford to lose. This is not financial advice. Every trading build here starts in paper mode, dry-run or research mode, and stays there until a month of logs says otherwise; the viral dollar figures attached to these ideas are self-reported by their creators and are not your expected result. Never give any bot, template, website or person your seed phrase or recovery words, and give exchange API keys trade-only permission with withdrawals disabled and IP locks on. Bots that send money, post publicly, or email customers must keep a human approval step on until you have reviewed dozens of their outputs. Read the license of any open-source tool before you sell access to it; some, like n8n's Sustainable Use License, do not allow hosting for paying clients. Prices, star counts and program terms in this vault were checked in Oct 2026 and change; confirm on the linked official pages before you budget. Nothing here is financial, legal or tax advice.

Questions

Do I need to know how to code?

No. You need to be able to open a terminal, paste commands, and read what comes back. Claude Code writes the code. Your job is to describe what you want, give it a way to check its work, and say yes or no. Module 1 is built for someone who has never done this.

Do I need a paid Claude plan?

Claude Code needs a Claude Pro, Max or Team subscription, or a Claude Console account with API credit. On a subscription, Claude Code usage is included in your plan limits. On the API you pay per token; Module 7 shows the exact prices and how to cap spend before anything runs.

Is the arbitrage bot going to make me the viral number?

No. That figure is self-reported by one creator and their bot traded prediction markets at scale. What you get here is the real architecture (feed, signal, risk, execute), the fee math that tells you whether a gap is real, and a paper mode that proves it before money moves. At retail fee tiers most gaps on big pairs are smaller than the costs. Most people lose money trading. Only risk money you can afford to lose. This is not financial advice.

Do I need my own exchange account to start Module 2?

Not to build and paper-trade. Public price endpoints need no login, and ccxt's sandbox mode plus most exchanges' testnets let you place pretend orders. You only need a funded account with trade-only API keys when you decide to go live tiny, and that should be weeks in.

Claude Code or Grok Bot for the team modules?

Both work and the role prompts are identical. Claude Code subagents are the cheapest way to run a team while you are at the keyboard and the best for anything that touches code. Grok Bot routines run in the cloud on a schedule with a built-in approval step, which suits the daily brief and inbox work. Many people use Claude Code to build and Grok Bot to run.

Why 400 dollars a month for a free tool?

The client is not paying for ListMonk. They are paying for a system that is set up, connected to a real sender, loaded with their list, written, scheduled, and reported on every month without them touching it. Managed hosting of open-source tools for small businesses commonly runs 49 to 499 dollars a month plus a setup fee. Your hosting cost is 5 to 15 dollars.

Can I host n8n for clients the same way?

No. n8n's Sustainable Use License limits use to your own internal business purposes or non-commercial use, so selling hosted n8n is outside the license. Use it for your own back office if you like, and sell ListMonk, Postiz or WhisperX, whose licenses allow hosted use.

Are the xAI startup credits real?

There is a program at x.ai/startups with terms posted at x.ai/legal/startup-program-terms (updated Oct 7, 2026). What we could confirm: one credit balance across Grok products and the API, credits tied to a team account, and expiry six months after credits are applied. Amounts depend on your startup and the exact 6 to 12 month and matching claims from the reel should be checked on the page before you plan around them.

Plain English glossary

Terminal
The text window where you type commands to your computer. Claude Code lives here.
CLAUDE.md
A plain text file Claude Code reads at the start of every session. Your standing rules and commands go in it.
Subagent
A helper AI with one job and its own memory that reports a short result back to the main session.
Hook
A small script that runs automatically at a fixed moment (before a command, after an edit, when Claude tries to stop). Rules as code.
Skill
A folder with a SKILL.md file that teaches Claude a repeatable workflow. Invoke it with /name.
MCP
A standard plug that lets Claude use outside services like GitHub, Stripe or a database.
Token
The unit AI models bill by. Roughly three quarters of an English word. Prices are quoted per million tokens.
Prompt caching
Storing the repeated part of a prompt so the next call reads it at a fraction of the price.
Batch API
Sending many requests at once to be answered within 24 hours for half price.
Arbitrage
Buying something where it is cheap and selling where it is dear at the same moment. Profit only exists if the gap beats fees and slippage.
Taker fee
What an exchange charges when your order takes a price already sitting on the book. The maker fee is for orders that wait.
Slippage
The difference between the price you saw and the price you actually got, because the market moved while you filled.
Order book
The live list of buy offers (bids) and sell offers (asks) on an exchange. You trade against it, not against the last price.
Websocket
A live feed the exchange pushes to you, instead of you asking every few seconds. Faster, which matters for gaps that close in seconds.
Paper mode / dry-run
The bot does everything except send real orders. It writes what it would have done so you can check the math with zero risk.
Routine
In Grok Bot, a saved task that runs on a schedule. The same idea as a cron job or a Claude Code scheduled task.

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