Data · Oct 30, 2026
State of AI agent recipes (Oct 2026)
What 113 real, sourced AI agent setups in the Agent Cookbook library have in common: which agents people use, where the setups come from, and how many come with a money figure.
Recipes by agent, 113 recipes, computed Oct 30, 2026. “Any agent” means the source works with more than one tool.
Key findings
- Grok Bot is the most common agent in the library: 50 of 113 recipes (44%).
- Claude Code powers 19 recipes (17%) and Codex 4 (4%); 15 more (13%) are multi-agent setups.
- Of the 41 recipes added between Oct 18 and Oct 30, 32 (78%) are Grok Bot setups.
- 26 of 113 recipes (23%) come with a money figure stated by the creator; 4 of those are tagged as savings rather than income.
- 59 of 113 recipes (52%) link the creator's own template, tool or repo, or quote their exact prompt.
- 75 of 113 recipes (66%) are sourced from a post on X; Reddit is next with 13.
- 58 of 113 sources (51%) were published in October 2026.
- Apart from the 25 recipes filed under Made money, the biggest category is Dev & code with 24; all 113 recipes name a point where a human must approve.
The numbers
| Agent | Recipes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grok Bot | 50 | 44% |
| Any agent | 24 | 21% |
| Claude Code | 19 | 17% |
| Multi-agent | 15 | 13% |
| Codex | 4 | 4% |
| Claude | 1 | 1% |
| Category | Recipes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Made money | 25 | 22% |
| Dev & code | 24 | 21% |
| Money & bills | 17 | 15% |
| Personal ops | 11 | 10% |
| Research & monitoring | 8 | 7% |
| Sales & support | 8 | 7% |
| Content & social | 7 | 6% |
| Shopping & travel | 5 | 4% |
| Data & reports | 4 | 4% |
| Email & inbox | 4 | 4% |
| Source platform | Recipes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| X | 75 | 66% |
| 13 | 12% | |
| Blog | 7 | 6% |
| YouTube | 5 | 4% |
| GitHub | 4 | 4% |
| Substack | 3 | 3% |
| Indie Hackers | 3 | 3% |
| DEV Community | 2 | 2% |
| Company guide | 1 | 1% |
Method
Data source: the frontmatter of every recipe file in the Agent Cookbook library, the same data that builds each recipe page. Counted by a script, tools/recipe_stats.py; nothing is estimated or rounded except the percentages (whole numbers).
Count: 113 recipes, added between Oct 15 and Oct 30, 2026. Computed Oct 30, 2026.
What's counted: one recipe = one sourced setup. Agent, category and source platform are the labels on each recipe (platform variants like “X (Article)” count as X). A “money figure” means the recipe carries an amount the creator stated publicly; we don't verify bank or Stripe records (how we verify). “Creator's template or prompt” means the recipe links their own template, tool or repo, or quotes their exact prompt.
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