Anthropic's Claude Code SDK: Powering AI-Driven Coding Assistants

Anthropic has released the Claude Code SDK, enabling developers to integrate Claude Code into their applications and build AI-powered coding assistants. The SDK currently supports command-line usage, with TypeScript and Python SDKs coming soon. It offers features like multi-turn conversations, custom system prompts, and MCP configuration for extending functionality via external servers. The SDK provides text, JSON, and streaming JSON output formats, along with best practices for error handling, session management, and rate limiting. A real-world example is the Claude Code GitHub Actions, which automates code review and more.