Category Archives: Anthropic

Claude batch processing is valuable when the business can trade immediacy for lower cost and higher-volume asynchronous execution. Anthropic’s Message Batches API currently charges batch usage at 50 percent of standard API pricing. Most batches are documented as completing much sooner than the maximum window, but applications should design for asynchronous completion rather than promise […]

Citations make enterprise search answers easier to verify, but they do not fix weak retrieval. Anthropic’s Claude API can return citations that point to source passages from documents, and search-result content blocks can carry source attribution for retrieval-augmented generation. Those features are useful when users need to see why an answer is supported. The quality […]

Claude Code can participate in CI workflows in two different ways: as an interactive collaborator triggered from issues and pull requests, or as an automated worker launched by a GitHub Actions event. Anthropic’s official GitHub Action packages Claude Code for this environment, but the surrounding workflow still determines what code it can read, what it […]

“Custom commands” is still a useful way to think about repeatable Claude Code workflows, but the current product model is broader: Anthropic has merged custom commands into skills. Existing Markdown files under .claude/commands/ continue to work, while new reusable workflows are generally better created as skills under .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md. Both can create slash-invoked behavior such as […]