claude-quickstarts README

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Claude Quickstarts

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.

Getting Started

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.

Available Quickstarts

Customer Support Agent

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

Financial Data Analyst

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

Computer Use Demo

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_toolset_20260801 toolset shape, where each computer action is a member tool the model calls by name.

Go to Computer Use Demo Quickstart

Computer Use Best Practices

A pedagogical, native-macOS reference implementation of a computer-use agent. Unlike the containerized Computer Use Demo, this project runs directly against the macOS desktop (run it in a VM!) and demonstrates common patterns for building more reliable and cost-effective computer-use agents: explicit tool definitions, correct image sizing and pruning, prompt caching, server-side compaction, batched tool calls, a sandboxed shell, and trajectory recording. It pairs with Anthropic's computer-use best-practices guide.

Go to Computer Use Best Practices Quickstart

Browser Use Demo

A complete reference implementation for browser automation powered by Claude. This project demonstrates how to give Claude the ability to navigate websites, inspect and interact with DOM elements, extract content, and fill forms using a custom Playwright-backed browser tool.

Go to Browser Use Demo Quickstart

Autonomous Coding Agent

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

Managed Agents: Chat SDK

A browser chat app powered by Claude Managed Agents and Vercel's Chat SDK. This project demonstrates how to pair a persistent Managed Agents session per conversation with a chat surface: a research analyst researches with web search and streams its brief token by token while a live feed shows the tool calls. The same handler runs on Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram, or WhatsApp by swapping the Chat SDK adapter.

Go to Managed Agents Chat SDK Quickstart

Managed Agents with CopilotKit and AG-UI

A personal finance assistant chat app built on a Claude Managed Agent and rendered with CopilotKit. This project demonstrates how to bridge a managed-agent session to the AG-UI protocol, stream replies token by token with event deltas, and render agent tool calls as interactive generative UI components in the chat.

Go to Managed Agents with CopilotKit Quickstart

Managed Agents: Knowledge Wiki

A deal-room knowledge wiki built with Claude Managed Agents. This project demonstrates how to distill a document corpus once into a versioned memory-store knowledge wiki — using parallel extraction sessions, a resolve pass, and a steered consolidation dream — then answer repeated analyst questions from the wiki with provenance on every fact and a fraction of the per-question token cost of raw-document search. The worked example is a real M&A data room fetched from public SEC EDGAR filings.

Go to Managed Agents Knowledge Wiki Quickstart

General Usage

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

Explore Further

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

Contributing

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.

Community and Support

License

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

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Claude-quickstarts
What is this?Claude Quickstarts is a collection of separate example projects that show developers how to quickly build and deploy applications using the Claude API, covering use cases like customer support, financial analysis, computer use, and browser automation.
Is this one app or a bunch of separate projects?It is a monorepo of multiple independent quickstart projects (Customer Support Agent, Financial Data Analyst, Computer Use Demo, Browser Use Demo, Autonomous Coding Agent, and several Managed Agents examples), each with its own README and setup steps.
How do I get one of these quickstarts running?Clone the repo, navigate into the specific quickstart directory, install its dependencies, set your Claude API key as an environment variable, and run that quickstart's app.
Do I need a Claude API key for all of these?Yes, every quickstart requires a Claude API key, which you can get for free from console.anthropic.com.
Does each quickstart need its own setup?Yes, there's no single unified install; each project has different stacks and its own dependency installation and run steps, so you repeat the setup flow per quickstart you want to try.
Where do these quickstarts run?They run as local web/desktop demo apps; the Computer Use Best Practices one specifically targets native macOS (run in a VM), while others are standard web apps.
What does the Computer Use Demo actually let Claude do?It gives Claude tools to control a desktop computer, including support for the computertoolset20260801 toolset where each computer action is a separate named tool the model calls directly.
What is the Autonomous Coding Agent quickstart?It uses the Claude Agent SDK with a two-agent pattern (an initializer plus a coding agent) that builds complete applications across multiple sessions, persisting progress via git and working through a feature list incrementally.
What are the Managed Agents quickstarts about?They show Claude Managed Agents sessions wired into chat surfaces: one streams a research brief via Vercel's Chat SDK (portable to Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram or WhatsApp), one renders agent tool calls as generative UI via CopilotKit/AG-UI, and one builds a versioned knowledge wiki from a document corpus with provenance per fact.
What does the Browser Use Demo cover?It is a reference implementation for browser automation powered by Claude, using a custom Playwright-backed tool so Claude can navigate sites, inspect and interact with DOM elements, extract content, and fill forms.
What are similar projects?claude-code, brigade, OpenDots, hive, ruflo, oh-my-pi, open-dot, Raven
Which topics is it in?computer-use, slack, discord, playwright, finance, agent-memory, browser-automation, knowledge-base, chatbot, sdk, anthropic, multi-agent
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