claude-agent-sdk

Description

Build autonomous AI agents with Claude Agent SDK. Structured outputs (v0.1.45, Nov 2025) guarantee JSON schema validation, plugins system, hooks for event-driven workflows. Use when: building coding agents with validated JSON responses, SRE systems, security auditors, or troubleshooting CLI not found, structured output validation, session forking errors.

Tool Access

Full access

Inherits all available tools

Supporting Files

20 files

Additional assets for this skill

Tool Access

This skill inherits all available tools. When active, it can use any tool Claude has access to.

Supporting Assets

README.md

references/mcp-servers-guide.md

references/permissions-guide.md

references/query-api-reference.md

references/session-management.md

references/subagents-patterns.md

references/top-errors.md

rules/claude-agent-sdk.md

scripts/check-versions.sh

templates/basic-query.ts

templates/custom-mcp-server.ts

templates/error-handling.ts

templates/filesystem-settings.ts

templates/multi-agent-workflow.ts

templates/package.json

templates/permission-control.ts

templates/query-with-tools.ts

templates/session-management.ts

templates/subagents-orchestration.ts

templates/tsconfig.json

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GitHub Stats

14 forks

Updated 11 hours ago

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