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llm-anthropic 0.30

Simon Willison's llm-anthropic plugin hits 0.30: CLI tooling for Claude now supports batching, streaming cost reports, and deeper Bedrock integration.

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Why it matters

A developer-facing CLI tool for Claude API access ships incremental features that reduce friction for practitioners running agentic workloads and cost-sensitive batch jobs locally.

The key facts

11 to know
  1. llm-anthropic 0.30 released Sep 28 2026

  2. Adds batch API support for cost-optimized inference

  3. Streaming usage reporting and cost tracking per invocation

  4. Deeper AWS Bedrock integration for on-prem and regulated deployments

  5. CLI-native tool; no pricing changes to underlying Claude API

  6. Published by Simon Willison, llm CLI maintainer; not an Anthropic official announcement

  7. llm-anthropic plugin version 0.30 released

  8. Adds Claude API integration to Simon Willison's llm command-line tool

  9. Enables piping data and prompts to Anthropic models from terminal

  10. Open-source utility enhancement for developers using Claude programmatically

  11. No pricing, quota, or deployment constraints disclosed

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Simon Willisonsimonwillison.net

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