The cookbook includes a variety of recipes for different functions. These include integrating Claude with external tools, supplementing Claude's knowledge with data from various sources, prompting Claude to cite sources, using Haiku as a sub-agent with Opus, handling embeddings with Voyage AI, and exploring vision with Claude. Other recipes guide on how to have Claude generate images, parse and pass PDFs as text, automate the prompt evaluation process, enable JSON mode, and create a content moderation filter.
Key takeaways:
- The Anthropic Cookbook provides code and guides to help developers build with Claude, offering copy-able code snippets for easy integration into projects.
- Developers need an Anthropic API key to make the most of the examples in the cookbook, and while the examples are primarily in Python, they can be adapted to any language that supports interaction with the Anthropic API.
- The Cookbook thrives on contributions from the developer community, encouraging input in the form of ideas, typo fixes, new guides, or improvements to existing ones.
- The Cookbook includes a variety of recipes, such as how to integrate Claude with external tools, how to supplement Claude's knowledge with data retrieved from various sources, how to use Claude to automate the prompt evaluation process, and how to use Claude to create a content moderation filter for your application.