claude-cookbooks

<objective> Access the official Anthropic Claude Cookbooks repository (https://github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks) to find reference implementations, code examples, and best practices. This skill helps you find working examples for common Claude integration patterns. </objective>

<repository_structure> The Claude Cookbooks repository contains categorized examples:

skills/ - Claude Code skill examples

• Building custom skills
• Skill patterns and templates
• Progressive disclosure techniques

misc/ - Miscellaneous examples

• Various integration patterns
• Utility functions

third_party/ - Third-party integrations

• AWS Bedrock examples
• Google Vertex AI examples
• Framework integrations (LangChain, etc.)

tool_use/ - Tool calling examples

• Function calling patterns
• Tool definition best practices
• Multi-tool orchestration

multimodal/ - Vision and document examples

• Image processing
• PDF handling
• Multi-modal prompting

prompt_engineering/ - Prompting techniques

• System prompt patterns
• Few-shot examples
• Chain-of-thought techniques

agents/ - Agentic patterns

• Agent architectures
• Multi-agent coordination
• Tool-using agents

</repository_structure>

<quick_start> <workflow>

1. Identify what you're looking for (tool use, agents, skills, etc.)
2. Fetch the repository index to find relevant notebooks/examples
3. Fetch specific example files for detailed implementation
4. Adapt the patterns to your use case

</workflow>

<example title="Find tool use examples">

User: I need examples of how to define tools for Claude

Action: Fetch https://github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks/tree/main/tool_use
        to see available tool use examples, then fetch specific notebooks

</example>

<example title="Find skill examples">

User: Show me how to build a Claude Code skill

Action: Fetch https://github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks/tree/main/skills
        to find skill implementation patterns

</example> </quick_start>

<lookupurls> <baseurl>https://github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks/tree/main</base_url>;

<category name="skills"> https://github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks/tree/main/skills </category>

<category name="tooluse"> https://github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks/tree/main/tooluse </category>

<category name="agents"> https://github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks/tree/main/agents </category>

<category name="multimodal"> https://github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks/tree/main/multimodal </category>

<category name="promptengineering"> https://github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks/tree/main/promptengineering </category>

<category name="thirdparty"> https://github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks/tree/main/thirdparty </category>

<category name="misc"> https://github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks/tree/main/misc </category>

<rawcontentbase> For fetching actual file content, use raw GitHub URLs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks/main/{path} </rawcontentbase> </lookup_urls>

<usagepatterns> <pattern name="browsecategory"> When user wants to see what examples exist:

1. Use WebFetch on the category URL
2. List available notebooks/files
3. Ask which specific example to explore

</pattern>

<pattern name="fetch_example"> When user needs a specific example:

1. Use WebFetch on the raw GitHub URL for the file
2. Extract relevant code patterns
3. Explain how to adapt for user's context

</pattern>

<pattern name="search_pattern"> When user describes a problem:

1. Identify likely category (tool_use, agents, skills, etc.)
2. Fetch category listing
3. Find most relevant example
4. Fetch and explain the implementation

</pattern> </usage_patterns>

<common_lookups>

</common_lookups>

<workflowforlookup> <step n="1"> Identify the domain: What type of example does the user need?

• Tool calling → tool_use/
• Skills/commands → skills/
• Agent patterns → agents/
• Vision/docs → multimodal/
• Cloud providers → third_party/
• Prompting → prompt_engineering/

</step>

<step n="2"> Fetch the category index:

WebFetch: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks/tree/main/{category}
Prompt: List all available examples and notebooks in this directory

</step>

<step n="3"> Fetch specific example:

WebFetch: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks/main/{category}/{filename}
Prompt: Extract the key implementation patterns and code examples

</step>

<step n="4"> Apply to context: Adapt the example patterns to the user's specific use case </step> </workflowforlookup>

<success_criteria>

• Found relevant example from cookbooks
• Fetched actual implementation code
• Explained how to adapt for user's needs
• Provided working code based on official patterns

</success_criteria>