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Python SDK, LangChain and automation
Claude Code Routines Launches: Cloud-Based Automated Coding Triggered by Schedules, APIs, and GitHub Webhooks
Anthropic has introduced Routines for Claude Code, enabling coding tasks to run automatically in the cloud through schedules, HTTP API calls, or GitHub events, without an always-on local machine or self-managed cron. This article explains how Routines work, how to configure the three trigger types, branch safety and daily run limits by plan, and includes complete code for integrating automation with the Claude API.
Getting Started with the Claude Code Security Plugin: Check 25 High-Risk Vulnerability Types While You Code, and How the Three-Layer Review Works
Anthropic has released the free security-guidance plugin for Claude Code, which reviews and helps fix vulnerabilities in real time as you write code. This article explains the one-command installation, the three-layer review system: zero-cost per-edit regex checks, end-of-turn LLM diff review, and agentic cross-file review at commit time, along with the vulnerability types it covers, prerequisites, and its best-effort, non-blocking limits.
Claude Long-Agent Context Management Toolkit: How to Combine Tool Search, Context Editing, and Compaction
Long-running agents can overflow their context windows as tool results accumulate. This article explains three Claude API context management techniques: tool search for loading tools on demand, context editing for removing stale tool_result blocks, and compaction for summarizing and continuing when the window is nearly full, plus how to combine them with prompt caching to run long agents reliably and cost-efficiently. Includes complete code and practical tips for preserving cache hits.
Claude Code tips: 12 production practices that make it useful
Twelve production-tested Claude Code practices for hooks, slash commands, CLAUDE.md, parallel subagents, context compaction, cost control, and stable ClaudeAPI access.
Claude prompts: 10 copy-ready engineering templates
Ten production-tested Claude prompt templates for XML structure, few-shot, chain-of-thought, prefill, role prompts, output locks, safety boundaries, and ClaudeAPI calls.
Claude API PDF Document Q&A in Practice: The Complete Guide from Native Parsing to Page-Level Citations
Got a contract, annual report, or research paper running dozens of pages — how do you build Q&A on it with the Claude API? This post covers the complete engineering workflow from PDF upload, native visual parsing, page-level citations, prompt caching for reuse, to splitting documents over 100 pages, with ready-to-run code in Python, Node.js, and cURL.
Claude Files API: from upload and reuse to quota management
How Claude Files API reuses PDFs, images, CSVs, and code across requests, covering 500 MB / 100 GB quotas, Batch, MCP, Code Execution, and cleanup.
Claude Memory Tool in Practice: The Complete Guide to Giving Your Agent Cross-Session Memory
Claude's memory tool is a client-side storage-driven persistent memory capability. With just 6 commands, it enables cross-session information retention — and paired with context editing, benchmarks show 84% token savings on long-running tasks. This post covers the underlying mechanism, a minimal working Python implementation, how it differs from RAG, security best practices, and how to access it via API.
The Complete Guide to Agent Skills (Claude Code Edition): Build Your AI Agent Skill Library in 6 Steps
A complete hands-on walkthrough from installing your IDE to creating your first Agent Skill. Covers the full setup of Antigravity, Claude Code, and CC-Switch — with claudeapi.com as the API gateway to get everything running end to end.
Claude API Streaming (SSE) in Practice: From Typewriter Effects to Complete Tool Use Workflows
Get Claude streaming responses working in Python, Node.js, and cURL — covering SSE event parsing, streaming Tool Use calls, reconnection on disconnect, frontend typewriter effects, and production-grade error handling, with complete runnable code and a pitfall checklist.
Claude Citations API in Practice: Auto-Annotated Source References That Boost RAG Accuracy by 15%
Claude Citations enables the model to precisely cite the exact document passages used in its responses, helping reduce hallucinations and improve auditability. This article provides complete code examples for three document formats: PDF, plain text, and custom documents. It also compares Claude Citations with manually prompted citations, and explains how cited_text can help reduce costs because it is not billed.
Guaranteed JSON Every Time: Using Claude's Structured Outputs with JSON Schema
Stop wrestling with unreliable prompt constraints and fragile regex parsing. This guide walks you through using Claude API's Structured Outputs to guarantee schema-compliant JSON responses from the model — every single time.