Ian Provencher
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Everything Anthropic publishes, in one place

Claude is the engine behind everything I build. This is the comprehensive, verified index of what Anthropic ships directly — docs, courses, certifications, tools, the cookbook, research, and policies — plus the few third-party resources worth your time. Every link is checked.

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Claude Platform Docs (home)

platform.claude.com

The developer documentation home for the Claude API, models, tools, and agents.

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Get Started / Quickstart

platform.claude.com

First API call walkthrough to send your first message to Claude in minutes.

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API Overview & Reference

platform.claude.com

Reference for the RESTful Claude API: endpoints, auth, SDKs, and client libraries.

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Messages API Reference

platform.claude.com

The core Messages endpoint reference for sending prompts and receiving Claude responses.

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Models Overview

platform.claude.com

Comparison of the Claude model family with capabilities, context windows, and pricing.

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Tool Use Guide

platform.claude.com

How to let Claude call functions and tools you define to build agents.

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Agent Skills

platform.claude.com

Package instructions, scripts, and resources into reusable Skills that extend Claude.

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MCP Connector (docs)

platform.claude.com

Connect Claude to remote Model Context Protocol servers directly from the Messages API.

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Prompt Engineering Guide

platform.claude.com

Official techniques for writing effective prompts: clarity, examples, XML, and thinking.

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Claude Code Docs

code.claude.com

Documentation for Claude Code, the agentic coding tool for terminal, IDE, and web.

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Claude Agent SDK Docs

code.claude.com

Build custom agents in Python or TypeScript on the same loop powering Claude Code.

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Claude Code Prompt Library

code.claude.com

Ready-to-use prompts to copy into Claude Code for common workflows and best practices.

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Use Case Guides

platform.claude.com

In-depth production guides for building common Claude use cases end to end.

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Docs Glossary

platform.claude.com

Key terms and concepts for working with Claude and large language models.

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API Release Notes

platform.claude.com

Chronological changelog of Claude API, models, and platform feature updates.

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Developer Resources & Model Cards Hub

platform.claude.com

Index of quickstarts, cookbook, courses, glossary, and every model and system card.

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Model Context Protocol

modelcontextprotocol.io

The open standard Anthropic created for connecting AI apps to tools and data.

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Claude on Amazon Bedrock (docs)

platform.claude.com

Anthropic's guide to calling Claude models through Amazon Bedrock.

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Claude on Google Vertex AI (docs)

platform.claude.com

Anthropic's guide to calling Claude models through Google Cloud Vertex AI.

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Prompt caching

docs.claude.com

How to reuse a repeated prefix across calls so it is neither re-sent nor re-charged at full rate — the single biggest cost lever on a long-running agent.

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Extended thinking

docs.claude.com

Letting the model reason before it answers, and how that budget is set and spent. The setting most often left at its default without anyone deciding.

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Batch processing

docs.claude.com

Submitting many requests as one asynchronous job at a reduced rate — for work that does not need an answer this second.

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Citations

docs.claude.com

Having the model point at the exact source span behind a claim, so an answer can be checked rather than trusted.

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Claude Code hooks

code.claude.com

Commands the harness runs at fixed points in a session, so a convention is enforced by the tool instead of remembered by the operator.

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Claude Code subagents

code.claude.com

Defining specialist agents with their own tools and prompt, so wide independent work runs in parallel without flooding the main context.

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Claude Code plugins

code.claude.com

Packaging skills, hooks, agents and commands into something installable, so a working setup travels between machines.

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