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    anthropics/claude-quickstarts

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    A collection of projects designed to help developers quickly get started with building deployable applications using the Claude API

    api
    Python
    MIT
    20.5K stars
    3.5K forks
    181 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 11, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    Ranks #1 among API repositories ranked this week, and #1 over the last 30 days; #83 of 163 repositories with measured growth this week (top 51%).

    This week's +733 stars is ahead of its 30-day pace of about +519 per week.

    The project lists 33 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #6 in the weekly ranking the week of Dec 7, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a collection of starter projects to build deployable applications using the Claude API in TypeScript.
    • Enables rapid development with ready-made templates that demonstrate Claude's natural language and autonomous agent capabilities.
    • Use for creating AI-powered customer support agents that integrate with knowledge bases for enhanced user assistance.
    • Use for building interactive financial data analysis tools with chat-driven data visualization and insights.
    • Use for developing autonomous coding agents that incrementally build applications with session persistence and git integration.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present

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    From the README

    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.

    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.

    Excerpt from the anthropics/claude-quickstarts README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Oct 20: +201Nov 10: +597Nov 11: +479

    +2,930 stars over 75 days across 11 snapshot days; best day +597 on Nov 10.

    Forks

    3.5K+446

    Open issues

    242+47

    Compared with peers in API

    Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth

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    Category median4.0K+52955—

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