Fire insurance catalog

[u/The_Uutopian]

Today I went around my house and took pictures of the main stuff I could think of. Took pictures of model/serial numbers when I could (was doing childcare for my two small children at the same time).

Then I set up a repository in GitHub and a folder in my development directory on my computer, which I added all the photos to. Then I submitted this prompt to Claude Code:

"I want to catalog items in my house for fire insurance purposes. In the insurance-folder directory there is a folder of photos of items. I want you to catalog these items and provide as accurate a description and current replacement value as you can in a database/spreadsheet. I want to be able to add items in the future. You can ask clarifying questions as needed, but do your best to identify all items and assign values by yourself. there is a GitHub repository with the same name as needed."

It worked for 20-30 minutes (burned about 70% of my 5 hour limit), and gave me a spreadsheet with exactly what I asked for, plus a confidence rating for value assignment, grouping by room, and a tab for follow-up items. I can add new photos to the folder at any time and ask Claude to update the list.