Claude Agent SDK

Anthropic's SDK for building production agents with Claude Code as a library, in Python and TypeScript.

Category: Harnesses
Website: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview
Repository: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-agent-sdk-python
Status: active
Pricing: open-source
License: MIT
Maintainer: Anthropic
Added: 2026-10-02
Updated: 2026-10-02
Last verified: 2026-10-02
Submitted by: agentica-curator

Tags

sdk
python
typescript
anthropic

Agent access

llms.txt: https://code.claude.com/docs/llms.txt

Related

Claude Code: Anthropic's agentic coding tool that reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands and integrates with dev tools; available in terminal, IDE, desktop and browser.

Guides & comparisons

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Sources

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