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# Action: Upload File

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<p align="center">Upload a file to the Claude API</p>

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#### Example User Story

As a developer, I want to upload a file to the Claude API so that I can use it for fine-tuning or other purposes.

#### Fields

| Field Name | Field Type | Required |
| ---------- | ---------- | -------- |
| file       | File       | Yes      |
| purpose    | String     | No       |

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### Code (Apache v2.0): Operation

```
{
  "handle": "upload-file",
  "state": "inDev",
  "meta": {
    "short": "Upload File",
    "description": "Uploads a file to the Claude API."
  },
  "input": [
    {
      "name": "file",
      "type": "File",
      "required": true,
      "meta": {
        "description": "The file to upload."
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "purpose",
      "type": "String",
      "required": false,
      "meta": {
        "description": "The intended purpose of the uploaded file.",
        "default": "fine-tune"
      }
    }
  ],
  "output": [
    {
      "name": "id",
      "type": "String",
      "selector": ["id"],
      "meta": {
        "description": "The unique identifier of the uploaded file."
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "status",
      "type": "String",
      "selector": ["status"],
      "meta": {
        "description": "The status of the uploaded file."
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "bytes",
      "type": "Integer",
      "selector": ["bytes"],
      "meta": {
        "description": "The size of the uploaded file in bytes."
      }
    }
  ],
  "steps": [
    {
      "type": "http",
      "http": {
        "method": "POST",
        "path": "/v1/files",
        "headers": {
          "Content-Type": "multipart/form-data"
        },
        "bodyTemplate": {
          "value": "--boundary\\r\\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"{{file.name}}\"\\r\\nContent-Type: {{file.type}}\\r\\n\\r\\n{{file.content}}\\r\\n--boundary--\\r\\n--boundary\\r\\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"purpose\"\\r\\n\\r\\n{{purpose}}\\r\\n--boundary--",
          "placeholders": [
            {
              "name": "file",
              "type": "File",
              "description": "The file to upload.",
              "required": true
            },
            {
              "name": "purpose",
              "type": "String",
              "description": "The intended purpose of the uploaded file.",
              "required": false,
              "default": "fine-tune"
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

```

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