Claude Cookbooks

English Edition

Code recipes and guides for building with Claude API — organized as a browsable book.
Author

Anthropic

Published

August 1, 2026

Welcome

Claude Cookbooks is a collection of practical code recipes and guides for building applications with the Claude API.

This book organizes 90+ community cookbooks into a browsable, navigable format — so you can find the right pattern for your use case without scrolling through a GitHub file tree.

What’s Inside

Part Topics
I · Core Capabilities Classification, Summarization, RAG, Knowledge Graphs, Text-to-SQL
II · Tool Use Function calling, parallel tools, structured JSON, context engineering
III · Extended Thinking Extended thinking mode, thinking with tool use
IV · Multimodal Vision, charts/graphs, OCR, crop tool, sub-agents
V · Agent Patterns & SDK Orchestrator-workers, evaluator-optimizer, Claude Agent SDK
VI · Managed Agents (CMA) Production agents: iterate, gate, orchestrate, observe
VII · Skills Introduction to Claude Skills, financial & custom applications
VIII · Evaluations Building evals, agentic search benchmarks, tool evaluation
IX · Miscellaneous Prompt caching, JSON mode, batch, citations, metaprompt
X · Third-Party Pinecone, LlamaIndex, MongoDB, Wikipedia, WolframAlpha, ElevenLabs

How to Use This Book

Each chapter is a self-contained recipe:

  • Read the narrative to understand the concept
  • Copy the code snippets directly into your project
  • Experiment with the provided examples

Note: Code cells are rendered statically — outputs are pre-computed. To run them yourself, clone the original repository and execute the notebooks.

Prerequisites

  • A Claude API key (sign up at anthropic.com)
  • Python 3.10+
  • The anthropic Python package
pip install anthropic

Source

This book is derived from the anthropics/claude-cookbooks repository. All credit goes to Anthropic and the community contributors.