The best free Anthropic AI courses, curated
Anthropic — the maker of Claude — publishes some of the most practical free material on actually working with modern AI, from an accessible "AI fluency" course for everyone to hands-on, developer-focused prompt-engineering tutorials. Below is a path from using AI well to building with it.
These are curated links to free resources published by Anthropic on anthropic.com and its official GitHub organization. All content belongs to Anthropic. AnybodyCanAI is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Anthropic. The Anthropic and Claude names are used only to identify the source of each resource.
AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations
Use AI effectively, efficiently, ethically
Anthropic, Joseph Feller, Rick Dakan · Self-paced · Anthropic Learn
Summary
A free, accessible course — built with academic partners — on the skills to work with AI effectively, efficiently, ethically and safely. It teaches a simple framework (the "4 Ds": Delegation, Description, Discernment and Diligence) for collaborating with AI tools.
Squarely on-mission for AnybodyCanAI: a genuinely beginner-friendly, non-technical way to become fluent with AI — no coding required — from the team behind Claude. A great first step before any hands-on course.
Schedule
Lecture topics and dates rotate each offering — we link straight to Anthropic's official schedule and syllabus so it's always current.
Full schedule & syllabusAccess
Free. Registration on Anthropic’s learning platform is required to take the course and earn a certificate. No coding needed.
Materials & links
Source: Anthropic — all links open on the provider's own site.
Prompt Engineering Interactive Tutorial
Hands-on prompting, chapter by chapter
Anthropic · Self-paced · Anthropic (GitHub)
Summary
A step-by-step, hands-on tutorial that teaches prompt engineering from the ground up: basic prompt structure, being clear and direct, assigning roles, separating data from instructions, formatting output, step-by-step reasoning, examples, avoiding hallucinations, and building complex real-world prompts.
The best free, practical prompting course there is — nine structured chapters with exercises you actually run. Ideal the moment you start building anything on top of an LLM.
Schedule
Lecture topics and dates rotate each offering — we link straight to Anthropic's official schedule and syllabus so it's always current.
Full schedule & syllabusAccess
Free and open on GitHub. Running the notebooks live needs an Anthropic API key (paid usage); a Google Sheets version lets you follow along without code.
Materials & links
Source: Anthropic — all links open on the provider's own site.
Anthropic Courses
API fundamentals, evals, tool use & more
Anthropic · Self-paced · Anthropic (GitHub)
Summary
Anthropic’s collection of developer courses, meant to be taken in order: API fundamentals, the prompt-engineering interactive tutorial, real-world prompting, prompt evaluations, and tool use — everything you need to go from first API call to production-grade prompting.
A structured, free path for developers building on Claude — especially the evaluations and tool-use material, which is hard to find taught well anywhere else. The natural next step after the prompting tutorial.
Schedule
Lecture topics and dates rotate each offering — we link straight to Anthropic's official schedule and syllabus so it's always current.
Full schedule & syllabusAccess
Free and open on GitHub (the repository is archived read-only, but all content remains available). Hands-on exercises need an Anthropic API key (paid usage).
Materials & links
Source: Anthropic — all links open on the provider's own site.