claude-api

claude-api is a skill for Claude Code from Zandereins/schliff. It costs 193 tokens per session (7,890 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of claude-api, MIT.

A development guide for building applications with Claude, Anthropic's AI model, through the official Anthropic software libraries or web requests. It also covers updating Claude model integrations and adding prompt caching.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build, debug, optimise, or migrate applications that import the Anthropic software library or call Claude's API.
Why use it?
It provides project-specific guidance for connecting software to Claude and handling model-version changes without relying on unsupported integration patterns.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool; positional $N argument.

Part of the schliff plugin — 18 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to build, debug, optimise, or migrate applications that import the Anthropic software library or call Claude's API.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zandereins/schliff/c2-claude-api
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 Zandereins/schliff --skill c2-claude-api
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Zandereins/schliff

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install schliff, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 193 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,890 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 98% 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00193 $0.07890
Opus 5 $0.00097 $0.03945
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.01578
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00789

Measured 5d ago against content hash 48ac608cbd34, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 5d 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.

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

98% identical to claude-api — 2 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.

benchmarks/corpus/v1/phase1-calibration/c2-claude-api.SKILL.md · 325 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 325 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.

Output Requirement

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

  1. 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.
  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.

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 · 325 lines

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. 5d ago First seen · 325 lines · 193 tokens per session scan A 48ac608cbd34

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claude-api is a skill published in the GitHub repository Zandereins/schliff (15 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 193 tokens to every session and 7,890 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 98% identical to claude-api, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.