What they did
Zakiya McPherson joined her first fantasy basketball league, a 12-team head-to-head points league on ESPN, with little time for daily research. She first used Claude to learn how points are scored, then set up a scheduled task that runs in the cloud every morning at 6:39. The agent was given her league settings, roster slots, scoring rules and her 15-player roster with position eligibility. Each run it looks up the day's NBA games and the latest injury and rest reports, builds the best legal ten-player lineup, and sends a short message with who to start in each slot, who to bench and why, the exact swaps to make, injury news to watch and an optional waiver pickup. By design it only recommends: she makes every move in ESPN herself.
How it went
She reports a 2-0 record so far and a 200-point lead in the current week's matchup. The explanations taught her about role players she would have ignored, and it alerts her with a swap when a starter is ruled out before tip-off. Early on she missed the push notifications because the Claude app was not on her phone, so she added email delivery. Keeping the roster current stayed manual: every add, drop or IR move has to be reported back to the agent.
Worth knowing
The agent works from the roster you give it, so it goes stale after every transaction unless you update it. She scheduled it a few minutes before the hour because on-the-hour jobs can run late. The post names Claude and a cloud scheduled task but not the exact product the schedule ran in.