claude-api From the maker
anthropics/skillsSkill
Reference for the Claude API / Anthropic SDK — model ids, pricing, params, streaming, tool use, MCP, agents, caching, token counting, model migration.
Why this score
This repo hosts 19 skills, so its 182,226 stars are split between them (about 9,591 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 91/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit dbd4588f9e10, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
What its code does:
- Reads environment variables and sends network requests with them API clients do this to send your key to the service. Check which service it talks to.
- Runs shell commands Common for dev tools. Read the commands it runs.shared/managed-agents-onboarding-from-url.md:1, shared/token-counting.md:50
- Makes network requestsSKILL.md, shared/preserved-thinking-migration/drop_block_probe.py:427 and 1 more
A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan
Alternatives
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