Your Starter Tech Stack: Pick This and Go

a simple stack you reuse everywhere

Part of: How to Build with AI: The Playbook

The fastest way to stall is to spend a week choosing tools. So here is one stack that is beginner-friendly and enough to build every project in this track. It is the exact stack the build projects use, so once you have it working, project one runs with no surprises. You can swap any single piece later without relearning the rest. The stack, one line each - Language: Python. Every guide here is Python. It has the least ceremony and the most examples online. - Model API: Claude (Anthropic). Every build project calls Claude through Anthropic's official library. You get an API key from console.anthropic.com and put it in ANTHROPIC API KEY. - Talking to the model: the anthropic library. One small library, one client, and you are calling a real model. - UI (optional): Streamlit. When you want a web page instead of a terminal, Streamlit turns a Python file into a shareable app with no HTML. - Storage: plain files, then SQLite. A JSON file is enough for most projects. The search and memory projects later use SQLite, which ships with Python. - Hosting (optional): Streamlit Community Cloud. Free, and it deploys straight from a GitHub repo when you want a live link. Get the model call working