patchy631--ai-engineering-hub/courses/anthropic-academy-courses/README.md

# 🎓 Anthropic Academy: Free AI Courses

13 free courses from Anthropic covering Agents, MCP, Claude Code, API, and RAG.

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## 📚 Courses

### 1️⃣ Claude 101
![Claude 101](assets/claude-101.png)

Use Claude for everyday work. Covers projects, artifacts, skills, tool connections, and research mode.

**🔗 [Claude 101](https://anthropic.skilljar.com/claude-101)**

### 2️⃣ AI Fluency: Frameworks & Foundations
![AI Fluency Frameworks](assets/ai-fluency-frameworks.png)

Practical skills for effective, ethical, and safe AI collaboration using the 4D Fluency Framework.

**🔗 [AI Fluency: Frameworks & Foundations](https://anthropic.skilljar.com/ai-fluency-framework-foundations)**

### 3️⃣ Introduction to Agent Skills
![Agent Skills](assets/agent-skills.png)

Build, configure, and share reusable Skills in Claude Code. Covers SKILL.md creation, triggering, and team distribution.

**🔗 [Introduction to Agent Skills](https://anthropic.skilljar.com/introduction-to-agent-skills)**

### 4️⃣ Building with the Claude API
![Claude API](assets/claude-api.png)

API integration, prompting, tool use, RAG, multimodal capabilities, and architectural patterns for AI apps.

**🔗 [Building with the Claude API](https://anthropic.skilljar.com/claude-with-the-anthropic-api)**

### 5️⃣ Claude Code in Action
![Claude Code](assets/claude-code.png)

Integrate Claude Code into your dev workflow. Covers tool use, context management, MCP servers, and GitHub integration.

**🔗 [Claude Code in Action](https://anthropic.skilljar.com/claude-code-in-action)**

### 6️⃣ Intro to Model Context Protocol
![Intro MCP](assets/intro-mcp.png)

Build MCP servers and clients from scratch in Python. Covers tools, resources, and prompts primitives.

**🔗 [Intro to Model Context Protocol](https://anthropic.skilljar.com/introduction-to-model-context-protocol)**

### 7️⃣ MCP: Advanced Topics
![MCP Advanced](assets/mcp-advanced.png)

Sampling, notifications, file system access, transport mechanisms, and production deployment patterns.

**🔗 [MCP: Advanced Topics](https://anthropic.skilljar.com/model-context-protocol-advanced-topics)**

### 8️⃣ AI Fluency for Students
![AI Fluency Students](assets/ai-fluency-students.png)

AI skills for learning, career planning, and academic success through responsible AI collaboration.

**🔗 [AI Fluency for Students](https://anthropic.skilljar.com/ai-fluency-for-students)**

### 9️⃣ AI Fluency for Educators
![AI Fluency Educators](assets/ai-fluency-educators.png)

Helps faculty and instructional designers apply AI fluency into teaching practice and institutional strategy.

**🔗 [AI Fluency for Educators](https://anthropic.skilljar.com/ai-fluency-for-educators)**

### 🔟 Teaching AI Fluency
![Teaching AI Fluency](assets/teaching-ai-fluency.png)

Teach and assess AI fluency in instructor-led settings.

**🔗 [Teaching AI Fluency](https://anthropic.skilljar.com/teaching-ai-fluency)**

### 1️⃣1️⃣ AI Fluency for Nonprofits
![AI Fluency Nonprofits](assets/ai-fluency-non-profits.png)

Practical AI skills for nonprofit professionals in fundraising, comms, programs, and ops.

**🔗 [AI Fluency for Nonprofits](https://anthropic.skilljar.com/ai-fluency-for-nonprofits)**

### 1️⃣2️⃣ Claude with Amazon Bedrock
![Claude Bedrock](assets/claude-bedrock.png)

Deploy Claude on Bedrock. Covers tool use, RAG, batch processing, vision, and autonomous agents on AWS.

**🔗 [Claude with Amazon Bedrock](https://anthropic.skilljar.com/claude-in-amazon-bedrock)**

### 1️⃣3️⃣ Claude with Google Cloud's Vertex AI
![Claude Vertex](assets/claude-vertex.png)

Integrate Claude through Vertex AI. Covers prompt engineering, tool use, RAG, and MCP on GCP.

**🔗 [Claude with Google Cloud's Vertex AI](https://anthropic.skilljar.com/claude-with-google-vertex)**

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