Anthropic rebrands Workbench as Playground for API exploration

Anthropic: Anthropic is an AI company developing advanced language models including the Claude series. The company maintains developer tools for interacting with its API offerings. In this announcement, Anthropic is rebranding and refining its interface for API exploration and testing. Workbench: Workbench was Anthropic's earlier interface for exploring and testing the Claude API and related features. It has undergone extended development to become more conventional and accessible. The tool previously supported starting from examples for features like tools, citations, and caching. Playground: Playground is Anthropic's newly rebranded interface, formerly known as Workbench, for exploring the Claude API. It allows users to test models and Messages API features without writing code. The platform provides working examples, visibility into requests and responses, and the ability to copy SDK code once functionality is verified. Product Update: Anthropic has rebranded its API testing interface after a prolonged development period to create a more conventional user experience. Developer Features: The updated interface supports interactive testing of tools, citations, caching, and other Messages API capabilities with direct access to request details and code export.