claude-agent-sdk

name	claude-agent-sdk
description	Router skill for the Claude Agent SDK — Anthropic's libraries for building autonomous AI agents that wrap the Claude Code CLI runtime. Ships in TypeScript (`@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk` on npm) and Python (`claude-agent-sdk` on PyPI). Covers `query()` / `ClaudeSDKClient`, hooks (PreToolUse / PostToolUse / Stop / etc.), subagents, MCP servers (stdio / HTTP / SSE / SDK in-process), permission modes, the sandbox (Docker / Kubernetes), structured outputs (JSON Schema validation), session capture / resume / fork, and session storage adapters (`SessionStore`, `InMemorySessionStore`, S3/Redis/Postgres). Use when the user asks about: importing `@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk` in TypeScript or `from claude_agent_sdk import ...` in Python, writing an agent that uses `query()` or `ClaudeSDKClient`, registering hooks via the SDK (`hooks: { PreToolUse: [...] }` / `hooks={"PreToolUse": [...]}`), defining MCP servers in SDK options, configuring `permissionMode` / `permission_mode`, building subagents with `AgentDefinition`, enabling structured outputs, running agents in a Docker/K8s sandbox, capturing and resuming sessions, mirroring session transcripts to external storage (S3, Redis, Postgres) via `SessionStore`, or troubleshooting SDK-specific errors (the SDK wraps Claude Code, so its errors differ from raw Messages API errors). Skip: questions about the Claude Code CLI itself such as `.claude/ settings.json` or `.mcp.json` files (use claude-code), the Anthropic Messages API directly without the SDK (use anthropic-api), the MCP protocol spec itself (use mcp-spec), or Anthropic's hosted Managed Agents product (use anthropic-platform-features).
user-invocable	true

Claude Agent SDK Reference

	TypeScript	Python
Version	v0.3.159	v0.2.87
Package	@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk	claude-agent-sdk (PyPI)
Docs	TypeScript SDK	Python SDK
Repo	claude-agent-sdk-typescript	claude-agent-sdk-python
Full reference	SKILL-typescript.md	SKILL-python.md

When you detect the user's language

• Working with .ts files, TypeScript imports, or npm/node → read SKILL-typescript.md
• Working with .py files, Python imports, or pip/python → read SKILL-python.md
• Ambiguous or multi-language → read both surface files

Cross-Language Naming Map

Concept	TypeScript	Python
One-shot query	query(options)	query(options)
Stateful client	N/A (query manages state)	ClaudeSDKClient
Options type	Options interface	ClaudeAgentOptions dataclass
Tool definition	tool(name, schema, handler)	@tool(name, desc, schema) decorator
MCP server factory	createSdkMcpServer()	create_sdk_mcp_server()
Permission callback	canUseTool	can_use_tool
Permission mode	permissionMode: "..."	permission_mode="..."
Hook registration	hooks: { PreToolUse: [...] }	hooks={"PreToolUse": [...]}
System prompt	systemPrompt	system_prompt
Max turns	maxTurns	max_turns
Allowed tools	allowedTools	allowed_tools
MCP servers	mcpServers	mcp_servers
Subagent def	AgentDefinition	AgentDefinition dataclass

Shared Concepts (both languages)

Both SDKs wrap the Claude Code CLI and share these concepts:

• Hooks: Pre/PostToolUse, Stop, SubagentStop, Notification, etc.
• Permissions: default, acceptEdits, plan, bypassPermissions, etc.
• MCP Servers: stdio, HTTP, SSE, SDK (in-process) configurations
• Subagents: Delegate tasks to child agents with scoped tools/permissions
• Structured Outputs: JSON Schema validation on agent output
• Sandbox: Container-based isolation (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Sessions: Capture, resume, fork, and mirror transcripts to external storage (SessionStore)

For API details, code examples, options tables, and known issues, read the language-specific reference file.