Groq SDK Patterns

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Implementing Groq integrations
• Refactoring SDK usage
• Establishing team coding standards for Groq
• With phrases like groq SDK patterns

Example prompts

• “groq SDK patterns”
• “groq best practices”
• “groq code patterns”
• “/groq-sdk-patterns”

Requirements

• Python 3
• A credential in GROQ_API_KEY
• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code
• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Write, Edit

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Typed client singleton — one shared Groq client with maxRetries and timeout, so the whole app reuses one connection pool and config.
2. 2Type-safe completion wrapper — return a typed result that surfaces Groq's unique timing fields (queue_time, completion_time, total_time)…
3. 3Streaming with typed events — an AsyncGenerator that yields delta.content tokens.
4. 4Error handling with Groq error types — branch on Groq.APIError (429, 401, other) and Groq.APIConnectionError; rethrow the unknown.
5. 5Retry with exponential backoff — honor the retry-after header on 429s, else jittered backoff.
6. 6Python patterns — sync Groq(), AsyncGroq(), and streaming (see the Python reference).
7. 7Multi-tenant client factory — cache one client per tenant so API keys stay isolated.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cfae287. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Read
  • Write
  • Edit

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are typescript and python).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

  • console.groq.com
  • github.com

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

  • GROQ_API_KEY

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

• Compatibility

  Designed for Claude Code

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Groq SDK Patterns loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs, and up to ~3.4k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 77 tokens; SKILL.md has 522 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~77

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.5k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~3.4k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace at commit cfae287, republished under its MIT licence (© jeremylongshore). 522 words, ~1,542 tokens.

name

groq-sdk-patterns

description

Apply production-ready Groq SDK patterns for TypeScript and Python. Use when implementing Groq integrations, refactoring SDK usage, or establishing team coding standards for Groq. Trigger with phrases like "groq SDK patterns", "groq best practices", "groq code patterns", "idiomatic groq".

allowed-tools

Read, Write, Edit

compatibility

Designed for Claude Code

version

1.11.0

license

MIT

author

Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>

tags

saas, groq, python, typescript

// src/groq/client.ts
import Groq from "groq-sdk";

let _client: Groq | null = null;

export function getGroq(): Groq {
  if (!_client) {
    _client = new Groq({
      apiKey: process.env.GROQ_API_KEY,
      maxRetries: 3,
      timeout: 30_000,
    });
  }
  return _client;
}

const result = await complete(
  [{ role: "user", content: "Summarize Groq's speed advantage." }],
  "llama-3.3-70b-versatile"
);
console.log(result.content);
console.log(`${result.timing.tokensPerSec.toFixed(0)} tok/s`);

for await (const token of streamCompletion([{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }])) {
  process.stdout.write(token);
}

from groq import Groq
client = Groq()
print(client.chat.completions.create(
    model="llama-3.3-70b-versatile",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
).choices[0].message.content)

© jeremylongshore, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files (references) in skills/.curated/groq-sdk-patterns of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.

• SKILL.md
• references/python-patterns.md
• references/sdk-differences.md
• references/typescript-patterns.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cfae287