Claude Cookbooks

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

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>

<lookup_urls>
<base_url>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="tool_use">
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks/tree/main/tool_use
</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="prompt_engineering">
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks/tree/main/prompt_engineering
</category>

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

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

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

<usage_patterns>
<pattern name="browse_category">
**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>
| Need | Category | Example File |
|------|----------|--------------|
| Define tools for Claude | tool_use | calculator_tool.ipynb |
| Build a skill | skills | various SKILL.md examples |
| Multi-agent patterns | agents | agent examples |
| Image/PDF processing | multimodal | vision examples |
| AWS Bedrock setup | third_party | bedrock examples |
| Prompting techniques | prompt_engineering | various notebooks |
</common_lookups>

<workflow_for_lookup>
<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>
</workflow_for_lookup>

<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>