A skill for building applications that use Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, through the official Anthropic software libraries. It selects the appropriate Claude interface and language-specific documentation.

Adding Claude-powered features to an application after identifying the project language and the required Anthropic API surface.

It helps developers choose a suitable Claude integration and avoid using the wrong provider or documentation.

claude-api — Skill for Claude Code and Cursor by mamahoos/dot-files

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 mamahoos/dot-files --skill claude-api

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mamahoos/dot-files

Made for: Claude Code, Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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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 26,704 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin 95% copy Near-identical to another mod 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00000	$0.26704
Opus 5.5	$0.00000	$0.10682
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00000	$0.05341
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.02670

Measured 14d ago against content hash 9647d68de239, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-api scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 14d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (shared/evals/report/build-report-lite.mjs, shared/evals/report/runner-scaffold.mjs), 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

2. **Raw HTTP** (`curl`, `requests`, `fetch`, `httpx`, etc.) - only when the user explicitly asks for cURL/REST/raw HTTP, the project is a shell/cURL project, or the language has no official SDK.

Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to claude-api — 147 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

home/.cursor/skills/claude-api/SKILL.md · 618 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 618 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Building LLM-Powered Applications with Claude

This skill helps you build LLM-powered applications with Claude. Choose the right surface based on your needs, detect the project language, then read the relevant language-specific documentation.

Before You Start

Scan the target file (or, if no target file, the prompt and project) for non-Anthropic provider markers - import openai, from openai, langchain_openai, OpenAI(, gpt-4, gpt-5, file names like agent-openai.py or *-generic.py, or any explicit instruction to keep the code provider-neutral. If you find any, stop and tell the user that this skill produces Claude/Anthropic SDK code; ask whether they want to switch the file to Claude or want a non-Claude implementation. Do not edit a non-Anthropic file with Anthropic SDK calls. (Exception: the prompt-audit subcommand is non-interactive and does not stop here - it records non-Anthropic provider markers in its report's stated assumptions and never proposes switching a non-Anthropic file to the Anthropic SDK.)

Output Requirement

When the user asks you to add, modify, or implement a Claude feature, your code must call Claude through one of:

The official Anthropic SDK for the project's language (anthropic, @anthropic-ai/sdk, com.anthropic.*, etc.). This is the default whenever a supported SDK exists for the project.
Raw HTTP (curl, requests, fetch, httpx, etc.) - only when the user explicitly asks for cURL/REST/raw HTTP, the project is a shell/cURL project, or the language has no official SDK.

Never mix the two - don't reach for requests/fetch in a Python or TypeScript project just because it feels lighter. Never fall back to OpenAI-compatible shims.

Never guess SDK usage. Function names, class names, namespaces, method signatures, and import paths must come from explicit documentation - either the {lang}/ files in this skill or the official SDK repositories or documentation links listed in shared/live-sources.md. If the binding you need is not explicitly documented in the skill files, WebFetch the relevant SDK repo from shared/live-sources.md before writing code. Do not infer Ruby/Java/Go/PHP/C# APIs from cURL shapes or from another language's SDK.

Read the full file on GitHub · 618 lines

Files

What ships with it

60 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.

14d ago Changed · +11 lines 9647d68de239
18d ago Changed · +2 lines 6c9279b94679
25d ago Changed · +31 lines 1e40beab98ec
1mo ago Changed · +2 lines ffa849c02b8e
1mo ago First seen · 572 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 2d2a45e2f220

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claude-api is a skill published in the GitHub repository mamahoos/dot-files (5 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 26,704 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 95% identical to claude-api, differing in 147 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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