Open the morning email, enter the contests in your own browser, and press Entered for each one so nothing gets entered twice.
Contests not open to California residents are left out of the email and the queue page.
Sweeps Agent goes by the Official Rules where it could read them, and otherwise by the
listing’s own eligibility line (“NC and SC only”, “Open to residents of Canada”).
Each morning’s email lists the contests you can enter that day, the same ones as Enter
today on the queue page, daily contests first. Contests you’ve already entered for
their day, week or month are left out, and so are any you skipped for good. The subject
line gives the count; the email shows up to 25 of them. Each line
shows the contest, the company running it, how often you can enter, the total prize
value, and how many days are left.
The bottom of each email shows what Sweeps Agent spent on Claude reading Official Rules:
in the last 24 hours, and so far this month. It is worked out from Claude’s own count of
what each reading used, so it can differ slightly from Anthropic’s bill.
Two notes can appear on a line:
mail-in available: you can also enter by post. Few people do, so a mailed entry
often has better odds than the online form.
review rules: Sweeps Agent was unsure about something in the rules. Read them
yourself before entering.
rules not checked: read them before entering: Sweeps Agent couldn’t read the rules
at all. Some sites turn away automatic readers, hide their rules behind an age check,
or don’t link to them. Most contests from Online Sweepstakes carry this note. Find the
Official Rules on the entry page and read them before you enter. Enter with Claude
asks Claude to find them and tell you how often you can enter, then fill the form.
Each contest also has a purple Enter with Claude button.
Press Enter with Claude on a contest. A page for that contest opens.
Press the purple Copy prompt & open entry page button. The contest’s entry page
opens, and Claude’s instructions for it are ready to paste.
Click the Claude icon in Chrome’s toolbar, press Ctrl+V, then Enter. Claude
fills in the form and stops.
Check the form, solve any “I’m not a robot” check, and press Submit yourself.
Type done in Claude’s panel. Claude stops and brings you back to that contest’s
page in Sweeps Agent. Every prompt puts this rule first, with the page’s address, so
Claude doesn’t miss it.
Press Entered. The line next to it says “Recorded for” and the date.
Press Next contest for the next one.
done works at any point, even before Claude has filled anything. Use it when you
entered a contest yourself, or when Claude gets stuck: Claude leaves the form alone and
brings you back to that contest’s page.
An email can’t open Claude or copy text by itself, which is why there is one button press
in between. Setting up Claude in Chrome takes a few minutes, once; the next page says how.
How the queue page is laid out
Claude in Chrome: work through the whole list, at the top, holds a prompt with a
Copy prompt button. Paste it into Claude’s panel on the queue page and Claude takes
you through every contest, one at a time.
Enter today lists what you can enter right now: daily contests first, then the
rest, best first. A contest leaves this section once you press Entered, the next
time the page loads.
Already entered for now lists the rest, each with the reason it is not open to you
today. Daily contests come back up the next morning.
Skipped for good (number) →, at the bottom, opens a separate page listing the
contests you skipped. It only appears once you’ve skipped one.
A red or amber line under a contest’s name says what its rules allow in the way of help
filling the form. The next page explains both.
Skipping a contest for good
Some contests you’ll never want: the wrong prize, a sponsor you don’t trust, a form that
is too much work. Skip for good takes a contest off the queue page and out of the
morning email for good.
What you do:
Press Skip for good under the contest, on the queue page or on its own page.
Check the line next to it. It says “Skipped for good. It won’t come back.” On a
contest’s own page you go straight to the next contest instead.
Pressed it by mistake? Press Undo, the same button, straight away. Later, press
Skipped for good at the bottom of the queue page, then Bring back next to the
contest.
When the Entered button is grey
The button turns grey when entering again would break that contest’s rules. The words
next to it say why:
already entered today: come back tomorrow. “Today” is the contest’s day, usually
Eastern time.
one entry only: this contest allows a single entry, and you’ve made it.
weekly or monthly: you entered within the week or the month.
total limit of a number reached: you’ve used every entry the contest allows.
Running it now instead of waiting
Two buttons sit at the top of the queue page:
Check for new sweepstakes now reads the listing sites straight away instead of
waiting for the next check at 5 am or 1 pm. New contests appear on the page over the next half hour, as their
rules are read. Refresh the page to see them.
Email me today’s list now sends the morning email straight away.
What you do:
Press the button you want once.
Check the line next to the buttons. It says “Started” or “Sending.”
Each press of Check for new sweepstakes now may cost a little in rules reading, but
only for contests it has not read before.
The first time you open the queue page
The queue page asks you to sign in through Cloudflare before it opens. Only your own
email address is allowed in, so nobody else can see your list or mark entries.