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The best claude-quickstarts alternatives

3 tools that do a similar job to claude-quickstarts, 3 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.

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Starter projects that show how to build apps with the Claude API, from support agents to browser and desktop a

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    LangChain

    Open source · MIT · ★ 149k

    A Python framework for building AI agents and apps powered by language models.

    Best for: Python developers building LLM-powered applications; Teams that want to switch between model providers without rewriting code

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    LlamaIndex

    Open source · MIT · ★ 52.8k

    Python framework for building LLM apps that query your own documents and data.

    Best for: Python developers building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) apps over private documents; Teams wanting a modular toolkit where they can swap LLM, embedding and vector store providers

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    OpenAI Cookbook

    Open source · MIT · ★ 76.9k

    Example code and guides for common tasks with the OpenAI API.

    Best for: Developers who are new to the OpenAI API and want working examples; Python programmers who want to see API usage patterns in notebook form

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