{
  "product": {
    "id": "prd_claude_platform_api",
    "name": "Claude Platform / API",
    "surface_type": "api",
    "description": "Direct developer access to Claude via a documented HTTP API (the Anthropic Messages API and related endpoints), with no built-in chat UI of its own — the surface through which every other product in this catalog, and countless third-party applications, ultimately reach a Claude model. Includes developer-facing platform features like prompt caching, tool use, and (per this repo's own docs mirror) Managed Agents primitives (sessions, memory stores, dreams, permission policies).",
    "distinct_from_models_note": "The Platform/API is the most \"model-adjacent\" surface in this catalog — a thin, direct pass-through to a chosen model — but it is still a surface, not a model itself: the same API endpoint can be pointed at different model IDs (claude-sonnet-5, claude-fable-5, etc.) via a request parameter.",
    "source_note": "General knowledge as of this session, and directly corroborated by this repo's own docs mirror under docs/docs/platform.claude.com/ (citations.md, prompt-caching.md, and the whole managed-agents/ subtree already cited by sibling primitives in this repo).",
    "created_at": "2026-07-02 08:28:37",
    "cite_as": "https://subagentproducts.com/api/products/prd_claude_platform_api"
  }
}