Foundational orchestration of multi-turn conversational sequences and streaming infrastructure. Part of the free Claude Academy — every lesson below is open to everyone, no signup required.
The Strict Role Paradigm Anthropic enforces a strict alternating role contract within the messages array. Unlike other providers, you cannot send cons...
The Streaming Lifecycle When stream: true is enabled, the API responds with a series of Server-Sent Events (SSE) . Understanding the lifecycle is crit...
Mastering HTTP Diagnostics Interacting with /v1/messages requires more than just a valid API key. Developers must track specific HTTP status codes to...