---
title: "Anthropic"
lang: "en-US"
draft: false
description: "Learn about how to set up a VDP Anthropic component https://github.com/instill-ai/instill-core"
---
The Anthropic component is an AI component that allows users to connect the AI models served on the Anthropic Platform.
It can carry out the following tasks:
- [Text Generation Chat](#text-generation-chat)
## Release Stage
`Alpha`
## Configuration
The component configuration is defined and maintained [here](https://github.com/instill-ai/component/blob/main/ai/anthropic/v0/config/definition.json).
## Setup
In order to communicate with Anthropic, the following connection details need to be
provided. You may specify them directly in a pipeline recipe as key-value pairs
withing the component's `setup` block, or you can create a **Connection** from
the [**Integration Settings**](https://www.instill.tech/docs/vdp/integration)
page and reference the whole `setup` as `setup:
${connection.<my-connection-id>}`.
| Field | Field ID | Type | Note |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| API Key | `api-key` | string | Fill in your Anthropic API key. To find your keys, visit the Anthropic console page. |
## Supported Tasks
### Text Generation Chat
Provide text outputs in response to text inputs.
| Input | ID | Type | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Task ID (required) | `task` | string | `TASK_TEXT_GENERATION_CHAT` |
| Model Name (required) | `model-name` | string | The Anthropic model to be used |
| Prompt (required) | `prompt` | string | The prompt text |
| System message | `system-message` | string | The system message helps set the behavior of the assistant. For example, you can modify the personality of the assistant or provide specific instructions about how it should behave throughout the conversation. By default, the model’s behavior is set using a generic message as "You are a helpful assistant." |
| Prompt Images | `prompt-images` | array[string] | The prompt images (Note: The prompt images will be injected in the order they are provided to the 'prompt' message. Anthropic doesn't support sending images via image-url, use this field instead) |
| Chat history | `chat-history` | array[object] | Incorporate external chat history, specifically previous messages within the conversation. Please note that System Message will be ignored and will not have any effect when this field is populated. Each message should adhere to the format: : \{"role": "The message role, i.e. 'system', 'user' or 'assistant'", "content": "message content"\}. |
| Seed | `seed` | integer | The seed (Note: Not supported by Anthropic Models) |
| Temperature | `temperature` | number | The temperature for sampling |
| Top K | `top-k` | integer | Top k for sampling |
| Max new tokens | `max-new-tokens` | integer | The maximum number of tokens for model to generate |
| Output | ID | Type | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Text | `text` | string | Model Output |
| Usage (optional) | `usage` | object | Usage tokens in Anthropic |
## Example Recipes
Recipe for the [List GitHub Repo Issues](https://instill.tech/instill-ai/pipelines/github-demo/playground) pipeline.
```yaml
version: v1beta
component:
anthropic-0:
type: anthropic
task: TASK_TEXT_GENERATION_CHAT
input:
max-new-tokens: 1000
model-name: claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620
prompt: Summarise and pick the most important issues from this list ${github.output.issues}
system-message: You are a helpful assistant.
temperature: 0.7
top-k: 10
setup:
api-key: ${secret.INSTILL_SECRET}
github:
type: github
task: TASK_LIST_ISSUES
input:
direction: desc
no-pull-request: false
owner: ${variable.repository-owner}
page: 1
per-page: 30
repository: ${variable.repository-name}
since: "2021-01-01T00:00:00Z"
sort: created
state: open
setup:
token: ${secret.github-demo}
variable:
repository-name:
title: Repository Name
description: Name of the repository i.e. instill-core
instill-format: string
repository-owner:
title: Repository Owner
description: Name of the repository owner i.e. instill-ai
instill-format: string
output:
result:
title: Result
value: ${anthropic-0.output.text}
```