Claude Agent SDK
Anthropic's Python SDK for building production agent systems. Tool use, guardrails, agent handoffs, and orchestration. Released alongside Claude 4.
The Claude Agent SDK provides building blocks for production agent systems in Python. It handles tool registration (define tools as Python functions, the SDK auto-generates schemas), guardrails (input/output validation), agent-to-agent handoffs (specialist agents that delegate), and multi-turn orchestration. It's designed to work with Claude's native tool use — no wrapper layers or prompt hacking. Released alongside Claude 4, it competes with OpenAI's Agents SDK and LangChain. I use it when building Python-based agents that need reliability and structured workflows.
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Anthropic's Python SDK for building production agent systems. Tool use, guardrails, agent handoffs, and orchestration. Released alongside Claude 4.
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