Free AI tools are everywhere. The instructions are written for developers. GitHub is full of free, open-source tools that do the job of paid subscriptions: video editors, voice generators, SEO auditors, schedulers, CRMs, automation platforms. Most people never use them, because the setup page starts with "open a terminal". This toolkit takes 117 of those tools and turns each one into a guide you follow by chatting with Claude. You paste a message. Claude downloads, installs and runs the tool on your computer, and asks your permission along the way. You never type a command. Every guide is the same three moves Paste. Copy the message from the guide into Claude and press Enter. Approve. Claude explains what it wants to do. You click to allow it. Ask. When it is ready, you ask for what you want in plain English. A "Start here" chapter in every kit shows how to install the Claude desktop app and send your first message, with a picture for each step. What's inside: 11 kits, 117 tools Short-Form Video Kit (15 tools): turn a topic into a finished vertical video with script, footage, voice and subtitles. Cut long videos into Shorts, add effects to talking-head clips, make animated explainers and product promos, and translate or dub videos into other languages. Images & Design Kit (10 tools): generate AI images on your own computer, remove backgrounds, sharpen and enlarge small pictures, and design thumbnails, social graphics and diagrams. Make anything you build look professionally designed. Voice & Audio Kit (11 tools): transcribe and subtitle videos, create voiceovers without a microphone, narrate in your own cloned voice, separate a voice from background music, dub into other languages and generate background music. Social Media Kit (4 tools): schedule posts across your networks from a dashboard you control, have AI collect sources and draft posts for your approval, and run your own link-in-bio page. YouTube Channel Kit (7 tools): pull transcripts to study what works in a niche, summarize any video in seconds, record your screen and camera like a studio, remove your background without a green screen, and turn long videos into Shorts. Content & Research Kit (10 tools): produce research reports with sources, chat privately with your own documents, run AI on your own computer with no usage fees, convert PDFs and Office files so AI can read them, and make AI drafts sound human. Marketing & SEO Kit (15 tools): run full SEO audits, plan and review ad campaigns, track keyword rankings, ask questions about your search and traffic data in plain English, and run newsletters and privacy-friendly analytics on tools you own. AI Agents & Automation Kit (12 tools): build automations that run on their own, create chatbots that answer from a business's own documents, have AI operate a web browser for you, collect website content, and get alerts when a competitor's page changes. Vibe Coding Kit (13 tools): build landing pages, websites and small apps by describing them, add sign-in and a database, and put them online on hosting you control. Claude Skills Kit (9 tools): give Claude long-term memory, better working habits and specialist roles for marketing, design and development. Find and install a skill for almost any job. Clients & Operations Kit (11 tools): track leads and deals, take bookings, send contracts for e-signature, invoice clients, answer website visitors by chat, build local lead lists and monitor client websites. What every guide gives you What it is and who it is for, in plain English, with a screenshot of the project. A simple diagram of how the tool works. Set it up by chatting with Claude: the exact message to paste, and a picture of what you will see at each step. Make your first one: a walkthrough to a finished first result. Three things to ask for next: ready-made messages to copy. Turn it into income: services you could offer with the tool, who buys them, and typical price ranges (estimates). License in plain English: what you can and cannot do when you use the tool for paid work. If something goes wrong: what to tell Claude to fix it. Using Codex or Cursor instead? A short box with a message for those apps. Each kit also has recipes that chain tools together, for example "A faceless short in one afternoon" or "An SEO audit you can sell". By the numbers 11 kits, 117 tools (92 core walkthroughs and 25 bonus tools) 1,363 pages across 11 PDFs 1,748 steps, each with its own picture 42 recipes that combine tools into complete workflows Bonus: an Excel catalogue of 448 open-source repos researched for this toolkit, with stars, licenses and use cases What you need The Claude desktop app on Windows 10 or newer, or macOS 13 or newer. A paid Claude plan (Pro, Max, Team or Enterprise). The part of the app that installs tools is not included in the free plan. An internet connection and some free disk space. Some tools need extras, and each guide says so up front: an API key from another service, Docker Desktop (free), or a computer with a strong graphics card. Where a tool has a hosted or no-install option, the guide shows that too. Who this is for Creators and YouTubers who want professional tools without monthly subscriptions. Marketers and freelancers who want to add services such as SEO audits, video editing, automation or chatbots. Small-business owners who want to run their own scheduling, CRM, invoicing and analytics. Anyone curious about open-source AI who has been put off by technical setup pages. Who this is not for Developers who are comfortable with a terminal. You do not need this. People who do not want to pay for a Claude plan. The guides depend on it. Anyone looking for a guaranteed income. The service ideas and prices are examples and estimates. What you get 11 PDF kits, 1,363 pages in total The Excel research catalogue (448 repos) Edition: November 2026. Star counts, licenses and setup steps were checked against GitHub on November 11, 2026. Questions Do I need to know how to code? No. You paste messages into Claude and click to approve. The guides contain no commands for you to type. Are the tools really free? The tools are free and open source. Some of them connect to paid services (for example an AI model or a voice service) that charge for use. Each guide lists what a tool needs and points to free options where they exist. Can I use the tools for client work? Often yes, but it depends on each tool's license. Every guide has a plain-English license note, and tools with restrictions are clearly marked. For a large client project, read the license yourself. Does it work with ChatGPT, Codex or Cursor? The step-by-step pictures show Claude. Each guide also includes a short message you can paste into Codex or Cursor. What if a tool changes after I buy? Open-source projects change quickly. Each setup message tells Claude to follow the project's current instructions, so the guides keep working in most cases even when details change. Please note This is an independent guide. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic or by the makers of any tool listed. All product names and trademarks belong to their owners. The tools themselves are free and are downloaded from their official sources; you are paying for the guides. Prices and income examples are estimates, not promises.