FREE Courses from Anthropic (claude code)

Most free AI courses are a teaser. A few videos. Then a paywall.

Anthropic’s Academy is not that. Thirteen courses. Listed at $0. Built by the team that ships Claude. No subscription. No upsell after the last lesson.

That is worth an evening. Not because a certificate will hire you. Because the work teaches how the model fails, not just how to chat with it.

If you just landed in Clief Notes and you still treat Claude like a smarter search box, start here. You do not need to be a developer. You do need one loop you can finish.

Three tracks

- AI Fluency. How to think with the model. Where it lies. Where it helps. Everyone starts here.

- Developer. API, Claude Code, MCP. User to builder.

- Specialized. Students, educators, nonprofits, AWS, Google Cloud. Only after 101.

The instinct to kill: skipping Fluency and jumping to agents. That instinct is wrong. You will ship slop faster.

Where to start tonight

New to AI:

Claude 101, then AI Fluency: Framework and Foundations.

Want to build:

Building with the Claude API, then Introduction to MCP.

Education or nonprofit:

Claude 101, then your specialized course.

Most courses are 1 to 4 hours. Two in a weekend is enough.

How you get in

1. Open Anthropic Academy on Skilljar.

2. Make a free account.

3. Pick a course marked $0.

4. Finish the lessons.

5. Download the certificate if you want the paper.

https://anthropic.skilljar.com/

The certificate is a bonus. The useful part is a working sense of when Claude is wrong. That is the skill that compounds.

Do Claude 101 this weekend. Bring back one thing that broke your current prompt habit. Drop it under this post. I want the boring version, not the certificate screenshot.

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FREE Courses from Anthropic (claude code)