https://github.com/anthropics/claude-quickstarts

A collection of projects designed to help developers quickly get started with building deployable applications using the Claude API

Claude Quickstarts is a collection of projects designed to help developers quickly get started with building applications using the Claude API. Each quickstart provides a foundation that you can easily build upon and customize for your specific needs.

To use these quickstarts, you'll need an Claude API key. If you don't have one yet, you can sign up for free at console.anthropic.com.

A customer support agent powered by Claude. This project demonstrates how to leverage Claude's natural language understanding and generation capabilities to create an AI-assisted customer support system with access to a knowledge base.

Go to Customer Support Agent Quickstart

A financial data analyst powered by Claude. This project demonstrates how to leverage Claude's capabilities with interactive data visualization to analyze financial data via chat.

Go to Financial Data Analyst Quickstart

An environment and tools that Claude can use to control a desktop computer. This project demonstrates how to leverage the computer use capabilities of Claude, including support for the latest computer_use_20251124 tool version with zoom actions.

Go to Computer Use Demo Quickstart

An autonomous coding agent powered by the Claude Agent SDK. This project demonstrates a two-agent pattern (initializer + coding agent) that can build complete applications over multiple sessions, with progress persisted via git and a feature list that the agent works through incrementally.

Go to Autonomous Coding Agent Quickstart

Each quickstart project comes with its own README and setup instructions. Generally, you'll follow these steps:

1. Clone this repository
2. Navigate to the specific quickstart directory
3. Install the required dependencies
4. Set up your Claude API key as an environment variable
5. Run the quickstart application

To deepen your understanding of working with Claude and the Claude API, check out these resources:

• Claude API Documentation
• Claude Cookbooks - A collection of code snippets and guides for common tasks
• Claude API Fundamentals Course

We welcome contributions to the Claude Quickstarts repository! If you have ideas for new quickstart projects or improvements to existing ones, please open an issue or submit a pull request.

• Join our Anthropic Discord community for discussions and support
• Check out the Anthropic support documentation for additional help

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.