Pattern: Claude Cowork as Autonomous Life Agent — User Automates London Flat Hunt with Scheduled Web Scraping

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A developer used Claude Cowork (GA since April 9) to automate apartment hunting in London: twice daily, the agent searched SpareRoom, OpenRent, Rightmove, and Zoopla, filtered out student flats and 3+ bed houses, wrote personalized outreach messages for every listing, and emailed the results. Found a flat in 5 days (399 upvotes, open-sourced on GitHub). This is the clearest public example of Claude Cowork being used as a scheduled autonomous agent for real-world tasks beyond coding.