Claude Cookbooks: Official Recipes and Notebooks by Anthropic
Anthropic's official collection of Jupyter notebooks and code recipes demonstrating practical Claude usage patterns including agents, tool use, RAG, and multimodal capabilities.
Claude Cookbooks: Official Recipes and Notebooks by Anthropic
Key Takeaways#
- Claude Cookbooks is Anthropic's official repository of 40+ Jupyter notebooks and Python scripts demonstrating real-world Claude usage patterns
- Covers agents, tool use, RAG pipelines, multimodal analysis, prompt engineering, and Claude Code workflows
- Each notebook is self-contained with copy-paste code that works with the Anthropic API
- Also available as a web version at platform.claude.com/cookbook for browsing without cloning
What Are Claude Cookbooks?#
Claude Cookbooks is the official Anthropic repository of practical code examples and Jupyter notebooks. Maintained by Anthropic's education team, it demonstrates how to build real applications with Claude — from simple prompt engineering to complex multi-agent systems.
The repository has 41,800+ GitHub stars and 550+ commits, making it one of the most popular AI education resources on GitHub. Each cookbook is a self-contained Jupyter notebook you can run immediately with an Anthropic API key.
Cookbook Categories#
Agent Patterns#
Learn how to build AI agents that reason, plan, and execute tasks autonomously. Notebooks cover the chief of staff agent pattern, multi-agent orchestration, and agent memory systems.
Tool Use and Function Calling#
Discover how to connect Claude to external tools, APIs, and databases. Examples include web search agents, code execution, and structured data extraction.
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)#
Build RAG pipelines that let Claude answer questions from your own documents. Covers embedding strategies, chunking approaches, and hybrid search.
Multimodal Analysis#
Use Claude's vision capabilities to analyze images, extract text from screenshots, and process documents with both text and visual content.
Prompt Engineering#
Master techniques like chain-of-thought reasoning, few-shot examples, and structured output formatting to get the best results from Claude.
Claude Code Integration#
Recipes for using Claude Code effectively, including CLAUDE.md configuration, custom commands, and MCP server integration.
How to Use#
Option 1: Clone and Run Locally#
git clone https://github.com/anthropics/claude-cookbooks.git cd claude-cookbooks pip install -r requirements.txt # Set your ANTHROPIC_API_KEY environment variable jupyter notebook
Option 2: Browse the Web Version#
Visit platform.claude.com/cookbook to browse cookbooks without cloning. The web version provides the same content in a more accessible format.
Option 3: Google Colab#
Most notebooks include a "Open in Colab" badge for running in Google's free cloud environment with zero setup.
Who Should Use This#
- Developers new to Claude who want working code examples to start building immediately
- Engineers building agents looking for production-ready patterns for tool use and multi-step reasoning
- Data scientists implementing RAG pipelines and document analysis workflows
- Teams standardizing on Claude best practices with vetted, official examples
Why It Stands Out#
Unlike community cookbooks that may be outdated or inaccurate, these are maintained by Anthropic's own team. Every notebook uses current API patterns, correct model names, and recommended techniques. When new Claude features launch, the cookbooks are updated within days. The code is tested against the live API, so you can trust it works.