Welcome to anthropic-tools’ documentation!

The anthropic-tools library simplifies the usage of Anthropics’s tool use feature. It abstracts away the complexity of parsing function signatures and docstrings by providing developers with a clean and intuitive interface.

This library is pretty much identical - this includes sharing a lot of code with - another one of my libraries, openai-functions. The openai-functions library is more powerful, but designed to work specifically with ChatGPT; this one is designed to work specifically with Anthropics’s Claude. I designed it to be a drop-in replacement where possible. The documentation is also almost identical.

Where to start

Either way, you’ll want to install anthropic-tools:

pip install anthropic-tools

Unlike openai-functions, since Anthropic does not support forcing the model to generate a specific function call, the only way of using it is as an assistant with access to tools.