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anthropics/claude-cookbooks

A collection of Jupyter notebooks and recipes providing code examples for building applications with the Claude API. It covers classification, retrieval augmented generation, summarization, tool use, and multimodal tasks.

Project overview

Project type: AI Agent · RAG
Use cases: Knowledge Q&A
Deployment: Refer to project documentation
License: MIT

Best for

Developers who understand Python and Jupyter Notebooks and want to learn prompt engineering, tool use, and integration patterns for the Claude API.

Key capabilities

Code examples exploring techniques for text and data classification using Claude.
Guides teaching how to enhance responses with external knowledge.
Guides and code recipes demonstrating techniques for text summarization.
Code recipes for integrating with external tools and functions, including customer service agents, calculators, and SQL queries.
Notebooks covering vision tasks, such as getting started with images, best practices, interpreting charts, and extracting content from forms.
Recipes covering sub-agents, uploading PDFs, automated evaluations, JSON mode, moderation filters, and prompt caching.
Examples demonstrating how to supplement knowledge with external data sources like Pinecone, Wikipedia, web pages, and Voyage AI.

Limitations and risks

Requires a Claude API key to make the most of the examples.
Using the examples requires connecting to an external paid service, the Claude API.
Requires an understanding of Python and Jupyter Notebooks to execute examples.

Getting started

Sign up and obtain a Claude API key, clone the repository, and open the desired Jupyter Notebook locally. Requires Python knowledge.

Evidence and sources

GitHub project description: A collection of notebooks/recipes showcasing some fun and effective ways of using Claude.
README: The Claude Cookbooks provide code and guides designed to help developers build with Claude, offering copy-able code snippets that you can easily integrate into your own projects.
README: - [Classification](https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-cookbook/tree/main/capabilities/classification): Explore techniques for text and data classification using Claude. - [Re…
README: - [Tool use](https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-cookbook/tree/main/tool_use): Learn how to integrate Claude with external tools and functions to extend its capabilities. - [C…
README: - [Vector databases (Pinecone)](https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-cookbook/blob/main/third_party/Pinecone/rag_using_pinecone.ipynb) - [Wikipedia](https://github.com/anthropi…

Reviewed at: 2026-07-21T22:09:03Z