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Claude Architect Fundamentals

Self-directed course on building with Claude, distilled from a public writeup of the Anthropic curriculum.

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I had been building with Claude mostly by feel and wanted a structured way to fill in the gaps. I do not have partner access to Anthropic's official Claude Architect Fundamentals course, so I had Claude itself distill a curriculum from a public article that described the course topics.

Five exercises covering the core building blocks: prompt engineering, tool use, agentic patterns, evaluation, and production design. I worked through each one in full before moving to the next and kept the distilled material as a cheat sheet I still reference when designing new agents.

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Exercise 1: Prompt EngineeringExercise 2: Tool UseExercise 3: Agentic PatternsExercise 4: EvaluationExercise 5: Production Design
  • -Recommended patterns for prompt engineering with Claude
  • -Tool use design and schema best practices
  • -Agentic loop patterns and failure modes
  • -Evaluation frameworks for Claude-based systems