diff --git a/nb/.gitignore b/nb/.gitignore
index c1e958b..bdea9b6 100644
--- a/nb/.gitignore
+++ b/nb/.gitignore
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ dist/
 wheels/
 *.egg-info
 
+# env
+.env
+
 # venv
 .venv
 
diff --git a/nb/README.md b/nb/README.md
index 47bad64..39718a3 100644
--- a/nb/README.md
+++ b/nb/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
 # nb
 
 Describe your project here.
+
+
+# Setup
+
+```
+rye sync
+```
+
+Create a `.env` file in `nb/` next to this README with the following:
+```
+ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="YOUR_KEY_HERE"
+```
diff --git a/nb/pyproject.toml b/nb/pyproject.toml
index ad5739b..734f2dc 100644
--- a/nb/pyproject.toml
+++ b/nb/pyproject.toml
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ authors = [
 dependencies = [
     "datasets>=2.21.0",
     "anthropic>=0.34.2",
+    "python-dotenv>=1.0.1",
 ]
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">= 3.8"
diff --git a/nb/requirements-dev.lock b/nb/requirements-dev.lock
index 41c968d..28fbccc 100644
--- a/nb/requirements-dev.lock
+++ b/nb/requirements-dev.lock
@@ -268,6 +268,8 @@ python-dateutil==2.9.0.post0
     # via arrow
     # via jupyter-client
     # via pandas
+python-dotenv==1.0.1
+    # via nb
 python-json-logger==2.0.7
     # via jupyter-events
 pytz==2024.1
diff --git a/nb/requirements.lock b/nb/requirements.lock
index 2ab54cf..a3c87de 100644
--- a/nb/requirements.lock
+++ b/nb/requirements.lock
@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ pydantic-core==2.23.3
     # via pydantic
 python-dateutil==2.9.0.post0
     # via pandas
+python-dotenv==1.0.1
+    # via nb
 pytz==2024.1
     # via pandas
 pyyaml==6.0.2
diff --git a/nb/src/nb/claude_prompting.py b/nb/src/nb/claude_prompting.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f30483a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nb/src/nb/claude_prompting.py
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+from anthropic import Anthropic
+from dotenv import load_dotenv
+from os import getenv
+
+load_dotenv()
+ANTHROPIC_API_KEY = getenv("ANTHROPIC_API_KEY")
+
+client = Anthropic(api_key=ANTHROPIC_API_KEY)
+MODEL_NAME = "claude-3-opus-20240229"
+
+message = client.messages.create(
+    model=MODEL_NAME,
+    max_tokens=512,
+    messages=[
+        {
+            "role": "user", 
+            "content": "Give me a JSON dict with names of famous athletes & their sports."
+        },
+    ]
+).content[0].text
+print(message)