Claude Cookbooks - Recipes & Guides for Building with Claude
guidebeginner15 min readVerified May 26, 2026
A comprehensive collection of Jupyter notebooks and code recipes showcasing effective ways to use Claude for classification, RAG, summarization, tool use, vision, and more.
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Claude Cookbooks
The Claude Cookbooks provide code and guides designed to help developers build with Claude, offering copy-able code snippets you can easily integrate into your own projects.
What is Inside#
- Capabilities: Classification, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), Summarization
- Tool Use and Integration: Customer service agents, calculator integration, SQL queries
- Third-Party Integrations: Vector databases (Pinecone), Wikipedia, embeddings with Voyage AI
- Multimodal Capabilities: Vision with Claude, image analysis
- Agent SDK: Building agentic applications
- Extended Thinking: Chain-of-thought prompting techniques
Key Features#
- 42,000+ GitHub stars and 4,700+ forks
- MIT licensed and maintained by Anthropic
- Jupyter notebook format for interactive learning
- Covers both beginner and advanced Claude API features
- Regular updates with new recipes
Prerequisites#
- A Claude API key (sign up free at anthropic.com)
- Python knowledge recommended
- Code adapted easily to any language supporting the Claude API
Why Use These Cookbooks#
Whether you are building a customer service chatbot, implementing RAG for document analysis, or exploring multimodal AI capabilities, the Claude Cookbooks provide production-ready code examples that save hours of development time.