Claude Cookbook(platform.claude.com)
338 points by saikatsg 48 days ago | 167 comments
tl;dr: Anthropic's Claude Cookbook is a growing collection of practical guides and notebooks covering agent development, RAG, tool use, evals, multimodal workflows, and integrations. Recent entries emphasize the Claude Agent SDK and Managed Agents API, with tutorials on multi-agent orchestration, memory/context compaction, vulnerability detection, SRE incident response, and self-verifying agents. Older entries cover foundational topics like prompt caching, extended thinking, structured JSON extraction, and vector DB integrations.
HN Discussion:
  • AI guides are pointless since AI can explain itself or vendors will bake it in
  • The frontend aesthetics examples fail to demonstrate actual design improvement
  • Endorses complementary resources like OpenAI's Cookbook and other lab examples
  • Asking for practical frontend agent workflows due to verification challenges
  • ~Misled by the name, expecting actual recipes rather than AI documentation