Practical guides and examples for using Claude effectively.
The cookbook is a listing/index page containing 84 cookbook entries organized chronologically (newest first), spanning from August 2023 to June 2026.
Featured Cookbooks
Programmatic tool calling (PTC) — Reduce latency and token consumption by letting Claude write code that calls tools programmatically in the code execution environment.
Tool search with embeddings — Scale Claude applications to thousands of tools using semantic embeddings for dynamic tool discovery.
Automatic context compaction — Manage context limits in long-running agentic workflows by automatically compressing conversation history.
Giving Claude a crop tool for better image analysis — Give Claude a crop tool to zoom into image regions for detailed analysis of charts, documents, and diagrams.
Prompting for frontend aesthetics — Guide to prompting Claude for distinctive, polished frontend designs avoiding generic aesthetics.
Introduction to Claude Skills — Create documents, analyze data, automate workflows with Claude's Excel, PowerPoint, PDF skills.
Full Catalog (84 entries)
Each links to a dedicated cookbook page on docs.anthropic.com.
Agent Patterns (12)
Basic workflows (Dec 2024)
Evaluator optimizer (Dec 2024)
Orchestrator workers (Dec 2024)
Async multi-agent orchestration (Jun 2026)
Multiagent: coordinate a specialist team (May 2026)
Using Haiku as a sub-agent (Mar 2024)
Creating a customer service agent with client-side tools (Apr 2024)
Threat intelligence enrichment agent (Apr 2026)
Context engineering: memory, compaction, and tool clearing (Mar 2026)
ReAct agent (Mar 2024)
Multi-document agents (Mar 2024)
Memory & context management with Claude Sonnet 4.6 (May 2025)
Claude Agent SDK (7)
The one-liner research agent (Sep 2025)
The chief of staff agent (Sep 2025)
The observability agent (Sep 2025)
The site reliability agent (Feb 2026)
Migrating from the OpenAI Agents SDK (Mar 2026)
Building a session browser (Mar 2026)
The vulnerability detection agent (Apr 2026)
Hosting your agent (May 2026)
Claude Managed Agents (7)
Iterate on a failing test suite (Apr 2026)
Production setup (Apr 2026)
Prompt versioning and rollback (Apr 2026)
Remember your users (Apr 2026)
SRE incident response agent (Apr 2026)
Build a data analyst agent (Apr 2026)
Build a Slack data analyst bot (Apr 2026)
Outcomes: agents that verify their own work (May 2026)
Multiagent: coordinate a specialist team (May 2026)
Tools (several)
Programmatic tool calling (PTC) (Nov 2025)
Tool search with embeddings (Nov 2025)
Automatic context compaction (Nov 2025)
Tool choice (May 2024)
Using a calculator tool (Apr 2024)
Extracting structured JSON using Claude and tool use (Apr 2024)
Note-saving tool with Pydantic (Apr 2024)
Parallel tool calls on Claude 3.7 Sonnet (Mar 2025)
Using vision with tools (May 2024)
Memory & context management (May 2025)
Context engineering (Mar 2026)
RAG & Retrieval (several)
Retrieval augmented generation (Jul 2024)
Enhancing RAG with contextual retrieval (Sep 2024)
Text to SQL with Claude (Sep 2024)
Summarization with Claude (Aug 2024)
Classification with Claude (May 2024)
Knowledge graph construction with Claude (Mar 2026)
Citations (Mar 2024)
"Uploading" PDFs to Claude via the API (Aug 2023)
Multimodal (several)
Best practices for using vision (May 2024)
Getting started - how to pass images (Mar 2024)
How to transcribe documents (Mar 2024)
Working with charts, graphs, and slide decks (Mar 2024)