# Message Batches Job Design

> A reusable checklist for deciding when and how to use the Anthropic Message Batches API for asynchronous, high-volume processing at reduced cost.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-uygnoey-skills-from-claude-blog-message-batches-job-design`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [uygnoey](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/uygnoey)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [AI & ML](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/ai-and-ml)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [uygnoey](https://github.com/uygnoey)
- **Source:** https://github.com/uygnoey/skills-from-claude-blog/tree/main/2024.10.08_message-batches-api/skills/message-batches-job-design

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-uygnoey-skills-from-claude-blog-message-batches-job-design
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# message-batches-job-design

## Instructions

- Use the Message Batches API when work is not time-sensitive and you can wait up to 24 hours for completion.        - Design each batch for high volume (up to 10,000 queries) and plan for asynchronous retrieval of results.        - Use batching to reduce cost (50% discount on input and output tokens) and to increase throughput without consuming standard API rate limits.        - Prefer batching for large-scale analysis/classification/translation/evaluation workloads where you would otherwise build complex queueing.

## Examples

- "We need to classify 2 million support tickets into 20 labels over the weekend—use the Batches API design checklist."        - "Translate a large set of product descriptions where same-day delivery is fine; estimate cost savings vs standard calls."        - "Run an offline model evaluation suite with 8,000 prompts; plan the batch submission and result download flow."
## Source

- https://claude.com/blog/message-batches-api

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [uygnoey](https://github.com/uygnoey)
- **Source:** [uygnoey/skills-from-claude-blog](https://github.com/uygnoey/skills-from-claude-blog)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-uygnoey-skills-from-claude-blog-message-batches-job-design
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/uygnoey
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