claude-cookbooks

# Claude Cookbooks

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.

## Prerequisites

To make the most of the examples in this cookbook, you'll need a Claude API key (sign up for free [here](https://www.anthropic.com)).

While the code examples are primarily written in Python, the concepts can be adapted to any programming language that supports interaction with the Claude API.

If you're new to working with the Claude API, we recommend starting with our [Claude API Fundamentals course](https://github.com/anthropics/courses/tree/master/anthropic_api_fundamentals) to get a solid foundation.

## Explore Further

Looking for more resources to enhance your experience with Claude and AI assistants? Check out these helpful links:

- [Anthropic developer documentation](https://docs.claude.com/claude/docs/guide-to-anthropics-prompt-engineering-resources)
- [Anthropic support docs](https://support.anthropic.com)
- [Anthropic Discord community](https://www.anthropic.com/discord)

## Contributing

The Claude Cookbooks thrives on the contributions of the developer community. We value your input, whether it's submitting an idea, fixing a typo, adding a new guide, or improving an existing one. By contributing, you help make this resource even more valuable for everyone.

To avoid duplication of efforts, please review the existing issues and pull requests before contributing.

If you have ideas for new examples or guides, share them on the [issues page](https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-cookbook/issues).

## Table of recipes

### Capabilities
- [Classification](https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-cookbook/tree/main/capabilities/classification): Explore techniques for text and data classification using Claude.
- [Retrieval Augmented Generation](https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-cookbook/tree/main/capabilities/retrieval_augmented_generation): Learn how to enhance Claude's responses with external knowledge.
- [Summarization](https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-cookbook/tree/main/capabilities/summarization): Discover techniques for effective text summarization with Claude.

### Tool Use and Integration
- [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.
  - [Customer service agent](https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-cookbook/blob/main/tool_use/customer_service_agent.ipynb)
  - [Calculator integration](https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-cookbook/blob/main/tool_use/calculator_tool.ipynb)
  - [SQL queries](https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-cookbook/blob/main/misc/how_to_make_sql_queries.ipynb)

### Third-Party Integrations
- [Retrieval augmented generation](https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-cookbook/tree/main/third_party): Supplement Claude's knowledge with external data sourc