anthropic

anthropic is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ashish7802/awesome-api-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (543 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to using Anthropic's API, a service for sending messages and images to Claude, Anthropic's AI models.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building software that calls Claude for text or image-aware tasks.
Why use it?
It explains how to authenticate requests, structure conversations, handle responses, and deal with common API errors.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when building software that calls Claude for text or image-aware tasks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ashish7802/awesome-api-skills/anthropic
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add ashish7802/awesome-api-skills --skill anthropic
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashish7802/awesome-api-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 543 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00543
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00271
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00109
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00054

Measured 10d ago against content hash 4f8680f2abee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

anthropic scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (examples/basic.ts, examples/example.py, examples/example.ts, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/anthropic/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Anthropic API Skill

Overview

Anthropic's API provides access to the Claude 3 family (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku). This skill focuses on the Messages API, vision capabilities, and strict system prompt isolation.

Installation

npm install @anthropic-ai/sdk
pip install anthropic

Authentication

Use the x-api-key header with your ANTHROPIC_API_KEY. You must also supply the anthropic-version header (e.g., 2023-06-01).

Core Concepts

  • System Prompt: Isolated from the main conversation array for higher adherence.
  • Claude 3.5 Sonnet: The recommended default model for speed and coding intelligence.
  • Max Tokens: Required parameter defining the generation limit (e.g., 4096 or 8192).

Common Workflows

  1. Define the system prompt.
  2. Pass the conversation history alternating precisely between user and assistant.
  3. Process the response blocks.

Error Handling

Handle AnthropicError. The OverloadedError indicates capacity constraints; retry with backoff. AuthenticationError indicates invalid or revoked keys.

Security

Anthropic provides inherent safety filters. Ensure system prompts instruct the model to avoid executing unverified external data.

Rate Limits

Tiered rate limits applied per minute (RPM) and tokens per minute (TPM). Tier 1 for Claude 3 Sonnet is 50 RPM and 40,000 TPM.

Best Practices

Always put long reference documents inside <documents> XML tags. Claude is specifically trained to parse and pay closer attention to XML structures.

Troubleshooting

If the API returns a 'roles must alternate' error, ensure your messages array strictly follows a user -> assistant -> user sequence without duplicate consecutive roles.

References

Why use this skill

Use this when your agent works with anthropic — structured patterns beat pasted docs and prevent common hallucinations.

AI pitfalls

  • Using deprecated model IDs or wrong API endpoints
  • Confusing chat vs completions vs embeddings APIs
  • Omitting rate-limit and token budget handling

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 61 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 4f8680f2abee

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anthropic is a skill published in the GitHub repository ashish7802/awesome-api-skills (13 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 543 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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