Overdue German VAT statements for Q3 2025 needed filing, with no custom code written for it. Claude Cowork and the Claude Chrome extension worked from a folder of invoice and receipt PDFs and filed the statements.
Result Called it "completely off the shelf stuff from Anthropic"
“Yesterday Claude filed my overdue German VAT Tax statements for Q3 2025.”
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They had overdue German VAT tax statements for Q3 2025 that needed filing. They started a project in Claude Cowork and put PDFs of their invoices and receipts into the project folder, using Claude Cowork together with the Claude Chrome extension. They describe it as no programming tricks, completely off the shelf stuff from Anthropic.
Claude filed the overdue VAT statements for Q3 2025.
Start a project in Claude Cowork and add PDFs of your invoices and receipts for [quarter/year] to the project folder. Use Claude Cowork with the Claude Chrome extension to total them up and prepare your [country] VAT statement, then show me every figure and wait for my confirmation before anything is submitted on the government portal.
A starting prompt written by Agents in the Wild. Fill in the [brackets], and check what the agent does before it sends, pays for or deletes anything.