anthropic

# 🔮 Anthropic

Anthropic Claude API integration — chat completions, streaming, vision, tool use, and batch processing via the Anthropic Messages API.

## Features

- **Messages API** — Claude Opus, Sonnet, Haiku completions
- **Streaming** — real-time token streaming responses
- **Vision** — image analysis and understanding
- **Tool use** — function calling with structured output
- **System prompts** — custom system instructions
- **Multi-turn conversations** — context management
- **Batch API** — bulk message processing
- **Token counting** — estimate usage before sending
- **Extended thinking** — deep reasoning mode
- **Model listing** — available models and capabilities

## Requirements

| Variable | Required | Description |
|----------|----------|-------------|
| `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` | ✅ | API key/token for Anthropic |

## Quick Start

```bash
# Send a message to Claude
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/anthropic.py chat "What is the meaning of life?" --model claude-sonnet-4-20250514
```

```bash
# Chat with system prompt
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/anthropic.py chat-system --system "You are a financial analyst" "Analyze AAPL stock"
```

```bash
# Analyze an image
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/anthropic.py chat-image --image photo.jpg 'What do you see in this image?'
```

```bash
# Stream a response
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/anthropic.py stream "Write a short story about a robot" --model claude-sonnet-4-20250514
```



## Commands

### `chat`
Send a message to Claude.
```bash
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/anthropic.py chat "What is the meaning of life?" --model claude-sonnet-4-20250514
```

### `chat-system`
Chat with system prompt.
```bash
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/anthropic.py chat-system --system "You are a financial analyst" "Analyze AAPL stock"
```

### `chat-image`
Analyze an image.
```bash
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/anthropic.py chat-image --image photo.jpg 'What do you see in this image?'
```

### `stream`
Stream a response.
```bash
python3 {baseDir}/scripts/anthropic.py...