Anthropic Claude (Beta) Prompt activity

Introduction

An Anthropic Claude (Beta) Prompt activity, using its Anthropic Claude (Beta) connection, sends a prompt to the specified Claude model and is intended to be used as a target to consume data in an operation.

Create an Anthropic Claude (Beta) Prompt activity

An instance of an Anthropic Claude (Beta) Prompt activity is created from an Anthropic Claude (Beta) connection using its Prompt activity type.

To create an instance of an activity, drag the activity type to the design canvas or copy the activity type and paste it on the design canvas. For details, see Creating an activity instance in Component reuse.

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

• The design canvas (see Component actions menu in Design canvas).
• The project pane's Components tab (see Component actions menu in Project pane Components tab).

Configure an Anthropic Claude (Beta) Prompt activity

Follow these steps to configure an Anthropic Claude (Beta) Prompt activity:

• Step 1: Enter a name and specify settings
  Provide a name for the activity, select a model, and specify a prompt and optional settings.

• Step 2: Review the data schemas
  Any request or response schemas are displayed.

Step 1: Enter a name and specify settings

In this step, provide a name for the activity, select a model, and specify a prompt and optional settings. Each user interface element of this step is described below.

• Endpoint menu: If you have multiple endpoints of the same connector type configured, a menu at the top of the screen displays the current endpoint name. Click the menu to switch to a different endpoint. For more information, see Change the assigned endpoint in Configuration screens.

  • Edit endpoint: Appears when you hover over the current endpoint name. Click to edit the currently selected endpoint's connection configuration.

• Name: Enter a name to identify the activity. The name must be unique for each Anthropic Claude (Beta) Prompt activity and must not contain forward slashes / or colons :.

• Chat ID: Enter a chat ID to retrieve context from a previous conversation. If empty and not provided in the request transformation, a new chat ID is generated and provided in the activity response.

• Choose option: Specify the model selection method, either List all models or Enter model identifier.

• List all models: Select this option to choose from a list of models retrieved from the Anthropic Claude (Beta) endpoint:

  • Select a model: This section displays models available in the Anthropic Claude (Beta) endpoint.

    • Selected model: After a model is selected, it is listed here.

    • Search: Enter any column's value into the search box to filter the list of models. The search is not case-sensitive. If models are already displayed within the table, the table results are filtered in real time with each keystroke. To reload models from the endpoint when searching, enter search criteria and then refresh, as described below.

    • Refresh: Click the refresh icon or the word Refresh to reload models from the Anthropic Claude (Beta) endpoint. This may be useful if models have been added. This action refreshes all metadata used to build the table of models displayed in the configuration.

    • Selecting a model: Within the table, click anywhere on a row to select a model. Only one model can be selected. The information available for each model is fetched from the Anthropic Claude (Beta) endpoint:

      • Display Name: The display name of the model.

      • ID: The ID of the model.

      • Released: The release date of the model.

    Tip

    If the table does not populate with available models, the Anthropic Claude (Beta) connection may not be successful. Ensure you are connected by reopening the connection and retesting the credentials.

    Alternatively, the model can be specified in the Model ID field or provided in the request transformation. If a model is specified in multiple places, this order of precedence is followed:

    1. A model provided in the request transformation overrides all fields below.
    2. A model specified in the Model ID field overrides the remaining field below, even if List all models is selected.
    3. A model selected in the Select a model list has the least precedence.

• Enter model identifier: Select this option to manually enter the ID of a model:

  • Model ID: Enter the model ID.

• Prompt: Enter the text to prompt the model with.

• Optional settings: Click to expand additional optional settings:

  • Max Output Tokens: Enter the maximum number of tokens to generate in the response. The default is 2000. The maximum value depends on the selected model. Refer to the Anthropic models overview for per-model output token limits.

  • Enable extended thinking: Select to enable extended thinking, which allows the model to reason through complex problems before generating a response. This option is disabled by default.

    Important

    Extended thinking is not supported by all Claude models. If this option is enabled for a model that does not support it, Anthropic returns an error. Refer to the Anthropic models overview to confirm whether the selected model supports extended thinking.

    • Effort: Select the level of reasoning effort to apply. This setting is visible when Enable extended thinking is selected. The options are Low, Medium, High (default), Extra High, and Max. Higher effort levels allow more thorough reasoning but increase response time and token usage.

  • Enable Prompt Caching: Select to enable prompt caching, which allows the model to reuse previously processed content and reduce latency and cost for repeated prompt components. This option is disabled by default.

    • Cache Up To: Select the portion of the prompt to cache. This setting is visible when Enable Prompt Caching is selected. The options follow an additive hierarchy, where each level includes all content from the levels above it:

      • Tools: Caches only the tool definitions provided to the model.
      • Tools + System Prompt: (Default.) Caches tool definitions and the system prompt.
      • Tools + System + Chat History: Caches tool definitions, the system prompt, and the full chat history.

      For details, see the Anthropic prompt caching documentation.

  • Continue on error: Select to continue the activity execution if an error is encountered for a dataset in a batch request. If any errors are encountered, they are written to the operation log.

• Save & Exit: If enabled, click to save the configuration for this step and close the activity configuration.

• Next: Click to temporarily store the configuration for this step and continue to the next step. The configuration will not be saved until you click the Finished button on the last step.

• Discard Changes: After making changes, click to close the configuration without saving changes made to any step. A message asks you to confirm that you want to discard changes.

Step 2: Review the data schemas

Any request or response schemas are displayed. Each user interface element of this step is described below.

• Data schema: These data schemas are inherited by adjacent transformations and are displayed again during transformation mapping.

  Note

  Data supplied in a transformation takes precedence over the activity configuration. Fields such as Chat ID, Prompt, Model ID, and Max Output Tokens can be provided or overridden in the request transformation.

  The Anthropic Claude (Beta) connector uses the Anthropic API. Refer to the API documentation for additional information.

• Refresh: Click the refresh icon or the word Refresh to regenerate schemas from the Anthropic Claude (Beta) endpoint. This action also regenerates a schema in other locations throughout the project where the same schema is referenced, such as in an adjacent transformation.

• Back: Click to temporarily store the configuration for this step and return to the previous step.

• Finished: Click to save the configuration for all steps and close the activity configuration.

• Discard Changes: After making changes, click to close the configuration without saving changes made to any step. A message asks you to confirm that you want to discard changes.

Next steps

After configuring an Anthropic Claude (Beta) Prompt activity, complete the configuration of the operation by adding and configuring other activities, transformations, or scripts as operation steps. You can also configure the operation settings, which include the ability to chain operations together that are in the same or different workflows.

Menu actions for an activity are accessible from the project pane and the design canvas. For details, see Activity actions menu in Connector basics.

Anthropic Claude (Beta) Prompt activities can be used as a target with these operation patterns:

• Transformation pattern
• Two-transformation pattern (as the first or second target)

To use the activity with scripting functions, write the data to a temporary location and then use that temporary location in the scripting function.

When ready, deploy and run the operation and validate behavior by checking the operation logs.