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Building with the Claude API

Building with the Claude API is a long hands-on course for developers who want to add AI features to their apps. It runs from API setup through prompting, tool use, RAG, caching and MCP to agent architectures.

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Who it suits

  • Software engineers who need to integrate Claude into production applications, such as chatbots, automation tools or AI-powered features.
  • Developers who want one thorough course from basic API use to agent architectures.

What it covers

  • Authenticating with the API, multi-turn conversations, system prompts, temperature and streaming.
  • Prompt evaluation workflows and prompt engineering techniques.
  • Tool use, batch operations and web search.
  • Retrieval-augmented generation with chunking, embeddings, BM25 and contextual retrieval.
  • Extended thinking, images, PDFs and citations, prompt caching, MCP, and agent patterns.

Before you start

  • Proficiency in Python programming.
  • Basic knowledge of handling JSON data.
  • Access to an Anthropic API key.

Common questions about Building with the Claude API

How long is it?
Anthropic lists 67 lessons and 8 quizzes, so plan for a substantial course.
Does it cover RAG and agents?
Yes. Anthropic lists retrieval-augmented generation and agent-based systems among the topics.
Is there a version for Amazon Bedrock?
Yes. Anthropic offers Claude with Amazon Bedrock, which covers the same ground through AWS.

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Written from Anthropic’s own pages, read on 2026-10-13. Content, prices and availability change, so the provider’s page is the source. We are not affiliated with Anthropic and this is not an endorsement.