Ecosystem Resources

The best external resources to level up your Claude skills—ranging from official API reference docs to community workflows and CLI tools.

Official Docs

Official documentation covering Claude's capabilities, API reference, and best practices directly from Anthropic.

A curated collection of optimized prompts for common tasks, maintained by Anthropic's team.

Code recipes and examples demonstrating best practices for building with Claude—includes RAG, tool use, and multi-agent patterns.

Complete API reference for the Claude API including Messages, streaming, tool use, and vision capabilities.

Anthropic's official guide covering XML tags, system prompts, chain-of-thought, and advanced prompting techniques.

Open-source guide to prompt engineering concepts applicable across all LLMs, with Claude-specific sections.

Comprehensive research-backed guide covering techniques from zero-shot to chain-of-thought and beyond.

Open-source VS Code extension that integrates Claude into your IDE for autonomous coding tasks.

AI pair programming in your terminal. Works with Claude 3.5 Sonnet and supports multi-file edits with git integration.

Official Anthropic community Discord server for developers building with Claude.

Community subreddit for Claude users sharing tips, prompts, and use cases.