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Add live stock data to your AI agent in 20 lines (Marketstack + Claude tool use)

calendar_today June 18, 2026 person Karam domain apilayer

Claude doesn’t know what TSLA closed at on its own, but tool use fixes this by giving Claude a function it can call to retrieve live stock prices. The post walks through wiring up the Marketstack API to a Claude tool-use agent in roughly 20 lines of Python.

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