Getting started with vision

Shows the simplest way to pass images into Claude (example uses image URLs).

• Upstream notebook: multimodal/getting_started_with_vision.ipynb

What to focus on

• Message content blocks for images
• Keeping image + instruction tightly scoped
• When to switch from URL-based input to base64 (see vision + tools)

Run locally

make test-notebooks NOTEBOOK=multimodal/getting_started_with_vision.ipynb

Related

• Vision + tools (base64 input): ../tool-use/vision-with-tools