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The Smallest Claude Client Is a Shell Script

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Every SDK for a language model API is thousands of lines, and that size teaches people that a client is a big thing. It is not. Underneath, the Claude Messages API is one HTTPS POST with a JSON body, and the reply is a stream of Server-Sent Events of which you need to understand six. This post is a…

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  1. 2026-10-17 12:48 · DEV Community — AI
    The Smallest Claude Client Is a Shell Script

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