Writing code that calls the Claude API by hand works fine, but there's an even faster path: have Claude write it for you. In this lesson, we'll use Claude Code to fill in an API integration from a stubbed-out file โ using the same primitives you've learned throughout this course.
The project is simple: a TypeScript file that gets weather. It contains two stubs:
The tool runner is the piece that handles tool calling and the agent loop for you, so you don't have to wire that up manually.
Claude Code comes with a built-in skill called Claude API. You can invoke it directly with /claude-api, or Claude Code will invoke it automatically when it detects that you're using the TypeScript SDK.
Open the project folder in your terminal and launch Claude Code.
From there, it takes a single prompt. A good prompt does three things:
Claude Code then fills in getWeather and run against the types, appends a call at the bottom of the file, executes the script, and reports the output. If something errors out, it reads the error message and patches the code in place.
In this run, Claude Code created a Zod tool that parsed the input and returned the output based on the city type. It also created the tool runner and the run function we asked for, and printed the final results of the agent loop.
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Most of what you write against the Claude API has a familiar shape:
You don't need to type that from memory every single time. Instead, stub the file, hand it to Claude Code, and just review the diff.
/claude-api.