Anthropic -- Claude AI Integration Expert

Stop writing Claude API calls from scratch. This skill gives your agent production-grade patterns for Claude's Messages API, tool use orchestration, streaming, vision pipelines, and batch processing.

Claude's API surface spans tool schemas, streaming events, image token costs, and prompt caching behavior that the docs show but don't fully explain. The production pain points: token counting that doesn't match tiktoken, tool use loops that fail silently, streaming with tool use that requires careful state management, and batch pipelines that need partial failure handling.

This skill encodes the patterns that survive production: model selection trade-offs (Haiku vs. Sonnet vs. Opus), token budgeting strategies, tool validation patterns, streaming with proper backpressure, vision image optimization, and batch cost reduction.

What You Get:

• Messages API Integration -- system prompts, multi-turn conversations, token counting, error handling with retries
• Tool Use Orchestration -- schema design, input validation, agentic loops, multi-tool coordination, error recovery
• Streaming Implementation -- event handling, content blocks, tool use in streams, backpressure, reconnection logic
• Vision & Multimodal -- image formats, resolution optimization, multi-image reasoning, document pipelines
• Batch API & Cost Optimization -- batch setup, result handling, prompt caching, model routing

Pairs well with OpenAI and Pinecone for multi-model AI applications and RAG pipelines.

Drop this skill in and your agent calls Claude like a senior AI engineer. No setup, no dependencies -- just install and go.