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Claude Documentation

Official Claude docs covering tools, prompts, and best practices.

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Anthropic's official Claude documentation portal. Covers the API, Claude Code, the Agent SDK, prompt engineering, and best practices. The canonical reference for everything Anthropic ships.

What it does

  • Two developer surfaces documented side by side: Messages for direct model access — you construct every turn, manage conversation state, and write your own tool loop — and Managed Agents for fully managed agent infrastructure with stateful sessions and persistent event history
  • Quickstart ships a runnable first call in nine flavors: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby, PHP, C#, cURL, and CLI (sample model claude-opus-5-5)
  • Names the cloud platforms Claude is also available on: Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry
  • Adjacent reference tracks: API reference, models and pricing, SDKs/CLI/libraries, and release notes — plus a developer-journey map from idea to production

When to use it

The documentation home for the Claude platform — the entry point for any Claude API work: take the quickstart, pick your SDK, then choose between raw Messages and Managed Agents before writing the tool loop yourself.

Getting started

No install — it is a documentation site. Start at the Quickstart, get an API key from the console, and copy the sample for your language.

Things to know

The docs track the live API and move with it — when quoting a behavior in your own docs, link the specific page rather than the home so readers land on the version you verified.

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  • Anthropic's official "Code with Claude" workshop materials — nine hands-on courses on skills, MCP, evals and Claude Managed Agents.

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  • Anthropic's canonical essay on agent design — workflows vs agents, and five composable patterns.

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