How to Integrate Claude with Your App

Claude 3 (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku) is Anthropic’s AI assistant excelling at nuanced analysis, complex reasoning, and maintaining safety while being helpful, honest, and harmless.

Step 1: Get API Access

Step 2: Generate an API Key

Navigate to API Keys in the console and create a new key. Store it securely in your environment variables.

Step 3: Install the SDK

# Python
pip install anthropic

# Node.js
npm install @anthropic-ai/sdk

Step 4: Make Your First Request

from anthropic import Anthropic

client = Anthropic(api_key="your-api-key")

message = client.messages.create(
    model="claude-3-sonnet-20240229",
    max_tokens=1024,
    messages=[
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": "Explain the difference between supervised and unsupervised learning."
        }
    ]
)

print(message.content[0].text)

Key Features of Claude 3

Claude 3 Opus: Most capable model for complex tasks like research, writing, and strategy

Claude 3 Sonnet: Balanced performance and speed for data processing and enterprise applications

Claude 3 Haiku: Fastest and most compact for simple queries and classification

Best Use Cases

Long-Context Analysis: Analyze 200K token documents, review entire codebases

Complex Reasoning: Multi-step problem solving, mathematical and scientific analysis

Content Creation: Technical writing, documentation, educational content

For more information, visit Anthropic Documentation.

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