Claude API
- Extend
- Meta
Building something that calls Claude: model ids, pricing, streaming, tool use, prompt caching, token counting. Reach for it before guessing an API detail from memory.
A situation it fits
Your app sends Claude the same 40kb of context on every request and the bill is climbing. You want to know whether that context can be cached.
2 scenarios in the bank answer to Claude API. The rest are in the game.
Skills it gets confused with
These share a family with Claude API, which is another way of saying they are the ones you might reach for by mistake.
- Skill CreatorMaking skills, not using them: package a workflow you keep repeating into a skill, then test whether it actually fires when it should.
- Academy GuideQuestions about how to use Claude well. Checks the official guidance before answering rather than improvising advice about the product.
- Discernment NudgeFires after advice is given, prompting the reader to check it rather than act on it blindly. Nothing a user asks for directly.
- MCP BuilderBuild an MCP server so Claude can reach an outside service or API through tools you designed. The plumbing between Claude and someone else's system.
- Slack GIF CreatorAnimated GIFs built to survive Slack's size and dimension limits. For when someone says make me a GIF of X doing Y.
Knowing what Claude API does is the easy half. Telling it apart from the others under time pressure is the game.
Today's sessionClaude API is part of anthropics/skills. Licence: Apache-2.0. The description above was written for this game, not taken from the skill.