Skills
Claude API Skill
by Anthropic
Auto-detects your language and guides you to the right Anthropic SDK patterns. Eight languages, no hallucinated APIs.
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From the listing
About Claude API Skill
The Claude API skill is a reference tool for building with the Anthropic API. It detects your project language from file extensions and config, then provides accurate SDK examples for Python, TypeScript, Java, Go, Ruby, C#, PHP, and cURL. Covers prompt caching, tool use, streaming, batch processing, file uploads, structured outputs, and extended thinking. Prevents the common mistake of mixing OpenAI SDK imports into an Anthropic project.
Best for
Developers integrating the Anthropic API for the first time or migrating between model versions
Use cases
- Get accurate SDK examples for your language without trawling the docs
- Migrate code from older Claude model versions with the skill handling API surface changes
- Set up a Managed Agent workflow with guided onboarding via the built-in subcommand
- Validate that function names and API calls match the official SDK for your language
Notes
Why it matters
The Anthropic API has eight supported language SDKs and multiple feature surfaces. Most developers reach for docs or ChatGPT to figure out the right pattern for their language. This skill keeps that lookup inside the agent session and validates the output against the real SDK.
How teams use it in production
Drop the skill into a new project session before writing the first API call. It reads your file extensions, picks the right SDK, and produces working boilerplate. Especially useful on migrations when Anthropic retires a model version and API surface names change.
What to watch
The pattern of a vendor shipping a skill that teaches the agent how to use the vendor's own API is worth watching broadly. Done well, it eliminates a whole class of hallucinated method names and wrong SDK versions.
Pros
- Auto-detects language, no configuration required
- Prevents mixed SDK imports, a common first-integration mistake
- Covers 8 languages with validated, working examples
- Built-in subcommand for Managed Agent onboarding
Cons
- Only useful for Anthropic API work, not multi-provider SDK patterns
- Must be kept current as Anthropic releases new SDK versions
- Extended thinking examples only work on Opus-class models
Key facts
What we have checked
- Days since the last commit
- 0
- GitHub forks
- 22,204
- GitHub stars
- 188,286
- Days to a first reply on issues
- 7.3
- Open issues
- 432
- Releases in the last 90 days
- 0
Each value shows when we last confirmed it and where it came from. Values we have not confirmed are left out, never guessed.
Stars and usage
How Claude API Skill is growing
185,752 to 188,286
Health and security
Is Claude API Skill looked after, and what do its setup files show
Health score
75 out of 100
| Part | Points | What we saw |
|---|---|---|
| Recent activity | 30 of 30 | Last push 0 days ago |
| Releases | 0 of 15 | 0 releases in 90 days |
| Issue replies | Not counted | The latest check has no issue response reading (fewer than 3 measured issues, or issues switched off) |
| Maintainer | 15 of 15 | Owned by an organisation |
| Official source | Not counted | MCP servers only |
Security check static checks
80 out of 100
- Medium Reads or points the agent at stored credentials (a credential file in the home directory): skills/claude-api/shared/evals/report/build-report-lite.mjs, skills/claude-api/shared/evals/report/runner-scaffold.mjs, line 28, 2 places in all.
- Medium Tells the agent to override the user or its own instructions (quoted, in a code block or described as an attack, possibly an example): skills/claude-api/shared/model-migration.md, line 863.
- Note No dependency list or install command was found in the skill, so there were no packages to look up on OSV.
- Note 36 files were not read (over 512 KB, or past the 60 file cap): skills/claude-api/python/claude-api/batches.md, skills/claude-api/python/claude-api/files-api.md, skills/claude-api/python/claude-api/README.md and more.
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