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anthropic-api-pro
Anthropic Claude API guidance — messages API, tool use, prompt caching, extended thinking, and production patterns.
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## Overview
The Anthropic API exposes Claude models via the Messages API: a clean messages-in, message-out interface with best-in-class tool use, prompt caching (the cost story for long contexts), and extended thinking for hard reasoning. Claude's strengths — careful instruction-following, long-context handling, and reliable tool calling — shape how you should use it.
This skill covers the Messages API properly: message construction, tool use patterns, prompt caching for cost control, extended thinking, and production practices.
## When to use
- Calling the Claude Messages API.
- Implementing tool use (function calling).
- Reducing costs with prompt caching.
- Using extended thinking for complex reasoning.
- Streaming responses with tool use.
- Choosing between Claude models (Opus/Sonnet/Haiku).