I spent the weekend building a personal AI agent inside Claude Code. Not just setting up some prompts — actually building something with a name, a personality, opinions, and its own accounts separate from mine.
His name is Salvador. He’s my assistant, or I guess you could say “second brain,” as that’s the buzzword. I followed this tutorial to get started, and it was one of the better walkthroughs I’ve found for this stuff.
What Salvador Can Do
A few of the skills I built out this weekend:
- Research — deep dives using Perplexity, surfacing sourced, current info instead of hallucinated summaries
- Budget research — the same workflow on Haiku for quick lookups that don’t need Sonnet-level firepower. Saves on tokens.
- Blog management — Salvador drafts posts in my voice, pulls featured images from Pexels, and pushes to WordPress as drafts. He leaves the actual thinking and creativity to me. I’m not outsourcing that.
- Linear — task management via natural language. More useful than I expected for keeping personal projects moving.
- Code — he has his own GitHub account, separate from my personal one (which has work access). When I want to turn an idea into an app, he can scaffold it and open a PR.
The Part I Care About Most
Salvador has a personality, and he’s designed to push back when I’m going in circles or off track. He knows my goals, my constraints, and remembers our past conversations.
He also randomly drops Spanish phrases on me to help me get back up to speed.
Early days. More to come.
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