Lightlines
By anthropics

claude-api

anthropics69.1k installs

Build Claude apps with documented API patterns.

What it does

Guides developers in building Claude-powered applications with documented API and SDK patterns.

When to use it

Use for Claude or Anthropic requests, LLM questions, and LLM-shaped tasks without a named provider; skip when another provider is being worked on.

How to use it

It changes how the agent implements Claude features by requiring documented official SDK patterns or explicitly justified raw HTTP.

What you provide

  • An existing project

Uses

Good to know

  • cannot be undone: Claude API

Latest review

What you need · 3

API calls can authenticate with this environment variable; it takes precedence over the token, OAuth profiles, and federation credentials.

This environment variable is an alternative authentication source, checked after ANTHROPIC_API_KEY and before OAuth profiles.


Access · 5

This skill

Claude API

Write

Sends paid test requests to Claude (irreversible)

Managed Agents

Execute

Starts hosted agent sessions

Write

Syncs hosted agent configurations