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claude-cookbooks
Claude AI cookbooks - code examples, tutorials, and best practices for using Claude API. Use when learning Claude API integration, building Claude-powered applications, or exploring Claude capabilities.
Why this skill is useful
Provides specific code examples and integration patterns for using the Claude API that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
Requires anthropic account access. About 4k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 405 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Claude Cookbooks Skill Comprehensive code examples and guides for building with Claude AI, sourced from the official Anthropic cookbooks repository. When to Use This Skill This skill should be triggered when: Learning how to use Claude API Implementing Claude integrations Building applications with Claude Working with tool use and function calling Implementing multimodal features (vision, image analysis) Setting up RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) Integrating Claude with third-party services Building AI agents with Claude Optimizing prompts for Claude Implementing advanced patterns (caching, sub-agents, etc.) Quick Reference Basic API Usage Tool Use (Function Calling) Vision (Image Analysis) Prompt Caching Key Capabilities Covered 1. Classification Text classification techniques Sentiment analysis Content categorization Multi-label classification 2. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Vector database integration Semantic search Context retrieval Knowledge base queries 3. Summarization Document summarization Meeting notes Article condensing Multi-document synthesis 4. Text-to-SQL Natural language to SQL queries Database schema understanding Query optimization Result interpretation 5. Tool Use & Function Calling Tool definition and schema Parameter validation Multi-tool workflows Error handling 6. Multimodal Image analysis and OCR Chart/graph interpretation Visual question answering Image generation integration 7. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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