Anthropic Claude (Beta) connection

Introduction

An Anthropic Claude (Beta) connection, created using the Anthropic Claude (Beta) connector, establishes access to Claude models either directly through Anthropic Claude or through Amazon Bedrock. Once a connection is configured, you can create instances of Anthropic Claude (Beta) activities associated with that connection to be used either as sources (to provide data in an operation) or as targets (to consume data in an operation).

Create or edit an Anthropic Claude (Beta) connection

A new Anthropic Claude (Beta) connection is created using the Anthropic Claude (Beta) connector from one of these locations:

• The design component palette's Project endpoints and connectors tab (see Design component palette).
• The Global Endpoints page (see Create a global endpoint in Global Endpoints).

An existing Anthropic Claude (Beta) connection can be edited from these locations:

• The design component palette's Project endpoints and connectors tab (see Design component palette).
• The project pane's Components tab (see Component actions menu in Project pane Components tab).
• The Global Endpoints page (see Edit a global endpoint in Global Endpoints).

Configure an Anthropic Claude (Beta) connection

Each user interface element of the Anthropic Claude (Beta) connection configuration screen is described below.

• Connection name: Enter a name to use to identify the connection. The name must be unique for each Anthropic Claude (Beta) connection and must not contain forward slashes / or colons :. This name is also used to identify the Anthropic Claude (Beta) endpoint, which refers to both a specific connection and its activities.

• Provider: Select the authentication method to use. Anthropic Cloud connects to Claude models hosted directly by Anthropic. Amazon Bedrock connects to Claude models served through Amazon Bedrock.

  When Anthropic Cloud is selected:

  • API key: Enter the API key from the Anthropic Console. To generate or retrieve an API key, sign in to the Anthropic Console and navigate to the API Keys section.

  When Amazon Bedrock is selected:

  • AWS access key ID: Enter the AWS IAM access key ID configured for Amazon Bedrock. For more information, see Amazon's documentation on How Amazon Bedrock works with IAM and Identity-based policy examples for Amazon Bedrock.

  • AWS secret access key: Enter the AWS IAM secret access key configured for Amazon Bedrock. For more information, see Amazon's documentation on How Amazon Bedrock works with IAM and Identity-based policy examples for Amazon Bedrock.

  • AWS region: Select the AWS region to use. The default region is US East (N. Virginia).

• Optional settings: Click to expand additional optional settings:

  • Timeout: Enter the timeout in milliseconds for requests to the Claude API. The minimum value is 120. The default value is 60000.

  • Max Retries: Enter the maximum number of times a failed request is retried. The value can range between 0 and 10. The default value is 2.

  • Use Proxy Settings (Private Agent Only): When using a private agent, this setting can be selected to use private agent proxy settings.

• Test: Click to verify the connection using the specified configuration. When the connection is tested, the latest version of the connector is downloaded by the agent(s) in the agent group associated with the current environment. This connector supports suspending the download of the latest connector version by using the Disable Auto Connector Update organization policy.

• Save Changes: Click to save and close the connection configuration.

• Discard Changes: After making changes to a new or existing configuration, click to close the configuration without saving. A message asks you to confirm that you want to discard changes.

• Delete: After opening an existing connection configuration, click to permanently delete the connection from the project and close the configuration (see Component dependencies, deletion, and removal). A message asks you to confirm that you want to delete the connection.

Next steps

After an Anthropic Claude (Beta) connection has been created, you place an activity type on the design canvas to create activity instances to be used either as sources (to provide data in an operation) or as targets (to consume data in an operation).

Menu actions for a connection and its activity types are accessible from the project pane and design component palette. For details, see Actions menus in Connector basics.

These activity types are available:

• Register Tools: Registers tools for use with Claude models and is intended to be used as a source in an operation.

• Prompt: Sends a prompt to the specified Claude model and is intended to be used as a target in an operation.