anthropics/anthropic-cli
The CLI for the Claude API
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 1 day ago, with 24 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #59 in the weekly ranking the week of Apr 12, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a command-line interface to interact with the Claude API for AI model operations.
- Enables easy and flexible API access with resource-based commands and support for file inputs and output formatting.
- Use for automating AI model requests and responses directly from the terminal or scripts.
- Use for integrating Claude API calls into CI/CD pipelines or development workflows without writing custom code.
- Use for debugging and exploring API interactions with detailed logging and customizable output formats.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
The official CLI for the Claude Developer Platform.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
119+26
Open issues
17+5
Compared with peers in API
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vxcontrol/pentagi | 33.5K | +712 | 38 | 31 days ago |
| usebruno/bruno | 48.2K | +281 | 59 | 14 days ago |
| agentgateway/agentgateway | 6.0K | +183 | 60 | 9 days ago |
| mudler/LocalAI | 50.2K | +176 | 59 | 12 days ago |
| sveltejs/svelte | 88.6K | +77 | 65 | 9 days ago |
| anthropics/anthropic-cli | 702 | — | 60 | 1 day ago |
| Category median | 48.2K | +183 | 59 | — |
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