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anthropic-api

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Claude API guidance for best practices.

Software Engineering#typescript#python#sdk#claude#cost-optimization#anthropic-api
Authorosocode
Version1.0.0
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What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides a concise, developer-focused guide for building applications with Anthropic's Claude API, consolidating best practices, cost optimization, prompt patterns, and production-ready workflows.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • SDK Guidelines: practical setup and usage patterns for Python and TypeScript SDKs.
  • Cost & Performance: techniques for prompt caching, batching, streaming, and efficient tool usage.
  • Production Readiness: error handling, monitoring, and deployment considerations for Claude-based apps.
  • Use Case: quickly bootstrap a Claude-powered service that queries models, handles retries, and logs usage.

Quick Start

  • Install the Python SDK: pip install anthropic
  • Create a small script to instantiate the client and call a sample model like claude-sonnet-4-5-20250514
  • Validate a response and log usage

Dependency Matrix

Required Modules

None required

Components

Standard package

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Name: anthropic-api
Download link: https://github.com/osocode/code-tools-bootstrap/archive/main.zip#anthropic-api

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