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Anthropic Code Execution

Anthropic Code Execution gives Claude the ability to execute JavaScript code for calculations, data analysis, and file processing.

Capabilities

  • Calculations: Complex mathematical operations
  • Data analysis: Process JSON and CSV data
  • Text processing: Analyze and transform texts
  • Validation: Check and validate data

Example Usage

"Calculate the totals and averages from this JSON data"

"Analyze this list of postal codes and group them by municipality"

"Validate whether this dataset is complete"

Government Applications

ApplicationExample
Data validationCheck delivered data
CalculationsFinancial calculations
ReportingMerge and analyze data
Quality controlCheck data consistency

Difference from OpenAI Code Interpreter

AspectAnthropic CodeOpenAI Code Interpreter
LanguageJavaScriptPython
VisualizationsLimitedExtensive
File typesJSON, CSV, textWide range
IntegrationIn ClaudeIn GPT

Availability

Available with:

  • ✅ Claude Sonnet 4
  • ✅ Claude Sonnet 4.5
  • ✅ Claude Opus 4.5

Enable

  1. Go to AdminSettingsTools
  2. Find Anthropic Code Execution
  3. Enable the tool
tip

For extensive data analysis with visualizations, OpenAI Code Interpreter is often more suitable. Anthropic Code Execution is ideal for quick calculations and text processing.