Claude
Claude is a family of large language models developed by Anthropic, designed with a focus on safety, helpfulness, and honesty. The Claude model family — including variants like Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus — supports a wide range of capabilities including long-context reasoning, tool use, agentic workflows, and multimodal input. Claude is accessible via a consumer chat interface (Claude.ai), a developer API, and through cloud platforms such as Amazon Bedrock and Google Vertex AI.
Demand for engineers and researchers who can build with Claude has accelerated sharply as enterprises adopt it for production AI agents, code generation, document analysis, and customer-facing assistants. Anthropic's Constitutional AI alignment approach and extended context windows make Claude a distinctive choice for high-trust, regulated, or safety-sensitive applications where teams need more than raw capability. Roles ranging from AI engineers to ML platform leads increasingly list Claude API proficiency and agentic workflow design as core requirements.
🎓 Courses
Agent Skills with Anthropic
by Anthropic
Covers Claude's agent SDK, MCP protocol, subagents, and pre-built skills — directly applicable to production agentic systems.
Building Toward Computer Use with Anthropic
by Colt Steele (Anthropic Head of Curriculum)
Teaches multimodal prompting, prompt caching, and tool use through a hands-on build leading up to computer-use capabilities.
Building with the Claude API Specialization
by Stephen Grider (Anthropic)
Official Anthropic course (launched November 2025) covering API integration, tool use, and autonomous workflows with a shareable certificate.
Claude Code: A Highly Agentic Coding Assistant
by Elie Schoppik (Anthropic Head of Technical Education)
Focuses on Claude Code's agentic coding loop — planning, executing, and iterating on code with minimal human input, including parallel multi-instance workflows.
Anthropic Academy
by Anthropic
Free official learning platform covering Claude fundamentals, agentic pipelines, memory management, and new features as they ship — maintained directly by Anthropic.
📖 Books
The Developer's Playbook for Large Language Model Security
Steve Wilson · 2024
Covers LLM security patterns including prompt injection and jailbreak defenses, directly relevant to building safe Claude-powered applications in production.
🛠️ Tutorials & Guides
Anthropic Interactive Prompt Engineering Tutorial
Hands-on Jupyter notebook series maintained by Anthropic covering structured prompting, XML tags, chain-of-thought, and Claude-specific prompt patterns with Claude 3 Haiku.
Anthropic Documentation — Prompt Engineering Overview
Anthropic's official engineering blog and docs covering context engineering, agent patterns, and real-world lessons from building production AI systems with Claude.
Prompt Engineering with Anthropic Claude
Practical guide to Claude-specific prompting techniques including XML structuring, negative prompting caveats, and system vs. human message placement.
🏅 Certifications
Building with the Claude API — Coursera Certificate
Anthropic / Coursera · Included in Coursera subscription (~$49/month) or audit free
Officially created by Anthropic technical staff — one of the few verifiable credentials specifically for Claude API development, shareable on LinkedIn.
Learning resources last updated: June 18, 2026