anthropic-api-knowledge-patch

A compatibility guide for Anthropic's API, which lets applications use Claude models and related platform features. It covers models, migrations, structured outputs, tools, streaming, caching, rate limits, and managed agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or migrating Messages API integrations, structured JSON responses, tool calls, streaming, prompt caching, model selection, rate-limit handling, or managed agents.
Why use it?
It helps developers account for API behavior, SDK types, model availability, limits, and migration concerns that may differ between versions or platforms.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nevaberry/nevaberry-plugins/anthropic-api-knowledge-patch
Any agent
npx skills add Nevaberry/nevaberry-plugins --skill anthropic-api-knowledge-patch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Nevaberry/nevaberry-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 11 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,104 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00011 $0.02104
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.01052
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00421
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00210

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6a0b976254a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

anthropic-api-knowledge-patch 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 2d ago.

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.

plugins/knowledge-patch/patches-claude/anthropic-api-knowledge-patch/SKILL.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Anthropic API Compatibility Guidance

Use this skill when building or migrating integrations for the Messages API, hosted platform variants, Managed Agents, structured outputs, tools, streaming, prompt caching, model selection, or rate-limit handling. Treat the project's actual SDK types, API responses, and model metadata as authoritative when they differ from this rolling guidance.

Reference index

Reference Topics
Models and migrations Model IDs, thinking, sampling, context, token budgets, migration contracts, refusals, images
Platforms and lifecycle Retirement, model discovery, AWS surfaces, identity, compliance, enterprise administration
Structured outputs JSON schemas, parse helpers, strict tools, schema limits, parsing safeguards
Tools and streaming Eager input, stream aggregation and recovery, beta headers, hosted tools, MCP tunnels
Caching and rate limits Cache breakpoints, TTLs, invalidation, pre-warming, token buckets, spend and workspace limits
Managed Agents Agents, sessions, event streams, memory, secrets, schedules, budgets, advisors, repository skills

Migration triage

Before changing a production target:

  1. Resolve the exact model ID and query /v1/models/{model_id} for advertised context, output, and capability limits.
  2. Remove assistant prefills and non-default sampling controls for targets that reject them.
  3. Move final structured output from top-level output_format to output_config.format; keep the Python parse helper's convenience argument only when using that helper.
  4. Recount tokens and retune max_tokens, compaction, and cache breakpoints.
  5. Audit tool versions, remove undo_edit, and parse every tool input with a real JSON parser.
  6. Treat model_context_window_exceeded, max_tokens, and refusal as separate stop conditions.
  7. Remove retired beta headers and confirm whether the destination surface supports each remaining beta.

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 2d ago First seen · 213 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 6a0b976254a2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

anthropic-api-knowledge-patch is a skill published in the GitHub repository Nevaberry/nevaberry-plugins (24 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 2,104 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. 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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