Claude Academy
Anthropic teaches the product.
We cover the job.
On August 20, 2026, Anthropic launched Claude Academy — 355 free resources: 22 courses, 119 tutorials, 148 role use cases, plus live webinars, badges, and a completion record. It is the best product training any AI company has published, and if you use Claude for work you should go take it.
That raises a fair question about a site like this one. Here is the honest answer: a vendor course can teach you a product. It cannot tell you when to use a competitor, what breaks at month six, how to get budget approved, or what happens to your job when the model you built on gets retired. Those are the problems that actually consume an AI deployment, and no one is incentivised to write them down except someone doing it.
So: take the courses. Then come back for the parts that follow.
Where to go for what
The first three rows are theirs, and it is not close. Product training is Anthropic’s job and they are better resourced at it than we will ever be. The other six are the ones a vendor cannot write, for reasons that have nothing to do with effort.
Which courses to take, by role
355 resources is more than anyone will work through. These are the six that matter for each role, in the order we would take them — and what each track leaves out.
AI Agent Manager
You are the person at your company responsible for AI actually working. Academy gets you fluent in the products; the operating problems are yours.
- 1AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations ↗14 lessons · 4 hr
The shared vocabulary. You will be explaining delegation and verification to non-technical colleagues for the next year.
- 2Claude 101 ↗13 lessons · 2.5 hr
You cannot support users on features you have not used. Two and a half hours.
- 3Introduction to Claude Cowork ↗14 lessons · 2.5 hr
Cowork is where most internal agent work now happens. Take this before you enable it for anyone.
- 4Introduction to agent skills ↗6 lessons · 1 hr
Skills are how you encode your company knowledge. This is the mechanic.
- 5Claude Enterprise Administrator Guide ↗
Roles, provisioning, policy. The controls you will be asked about in your first security review.
- 6What is Claude Managed Agents ↗
The concept explainer for the thing your CEO read about and wants deployed.
What the track leaves out
Nothing in the catalog covers what to do when adoption plateaus at 30%, how to defend the spend to a CFO, or how to run an eval suite that catches a regression before your users do.
AI Agent Manager path →Forward Deployed Engineer
You build agent systems inside someone else's company. Academy gives you the product depth; the client-facing craft is not taught anywhere.
- 1Building with the Claude API ↗67 lessons · 9 hr
Nine hours, 67 lessons. This is the single highest-value free thing on the internet for this role.
- 2Introduction to Model Context Protocol ↗10 lessons · 1 hr
Every FDE engagement ends up wiring a client system to Claude. MCP is the shape that takes.
- 3Model Context Protocol: Advanced Topics ↗11 lessons · 1.5 hr
Sampling and roots come up the moment a client asks for something non-trivial.
- 4Claude Code in Action ↗9 lessons · 1 hr
You will be running long unattended sessions on unfamiliar codebases. This is how not to lose an afternoon.
- 5Introduction to subagents ↗4 lessons · 45 min
Decomposition is the difference between a demo and a system.
- 6Claude with Amazon Bedrock ↗65 lessons · 8 hr
Take this instead of the base API course if your clients deploy on AWS. Same content, correct plumbing.
What the track leaves out
No course teaches you how to scope an engagement, what to do when the client's data is worse than they said, or how to hand a system over so it survives your departure. We wrote those three, because naming a gap and not filling it is just marketing.
FDE career path →IT / admin
You are deploying Claude to an organization. Academy has the official configuration path; the procurement and governance fights are elsewhere.
- 1Claude Enterprise Administrator Guide ↗
Start here. The official configuration walkthrough.
- 2Getting started with Claude security ↗
The baseline posture, in Anthropic's own words — useful to cite in a review.
- 3Claude Cowork Enterprise Administrator Guide ↗
Cowork has its own admin surface. Do not assume it inherits your claude.ai settings.
- 4How to enable Claude Code for your enterprise team ↗
The rollout path for Claude Code, including the permission model.
- 5Generate an AI policy ↗
A usable first draft of an internal AI policy.
- 6AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations ↗14 lessons · 4 hr
Take it so you can run the internal training yourself instead of buying it.
What the track leaves out
Nothing covers building the business case, getting security sign-off from a team that has already said no once, or what your renewal conversation looks like in month eleven.
IT / admin path →Developer
You are shipping something on the API. Academy is genuinely excellent here — this is the strongest part of the catalog.
- 1Claude Platform 101 ↗13 lessons · 1.5 hr
Ninety minutes to get oriented in the Console and make correct first requests.
- 2Building with the Claude API ↗67 lessons · 9 hr
The main event. Prompting through production patterns.
- 3Introduction to agent skills ↗6 lessons · 1 hr
Skills are now GA on the API. This is the shortest path to using them properly.
- 4Introduction to Model Context Protocol ↗10 lessons · 1 hr
Build a server from scratch rather than copying a template you do not understand.
- 5Introduction to subagents ↗4 lessons · 45 min
Orchestration patterns that hold up past the first demo.
- 6Claude Code in Action ↗9 lessons · 1 hr
Because you will spend more hours in Claude Code than in the API this year.
What the track leaves out
The courses stop at "it works." Rate-limit behaviour under real load, error taxonomies, cost blowups, and eval suites that catch regressions are not covered.
Developer path →Using Claude at work
You are not deploying anything. You want to be good at this. Academy is the right place to start and you should start today.
- 1Getting good at Claude: a research-backed curriculum ↗
Read this first — it is Anthropic's own recommended order, and it is short.
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- 3AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations ↗14 lessons · 4 hr
The framework that makes the habits stick after the novelty wears off.
- 4AI Capabilities and Limitations ↗13 lessons · 3.5 hr
Once you know why the model behaves as it does, most frustration stops.
- 5Can you trust what AI tells you ↗
Verification proportional to stakes. The single most useful idea in the whole catalog.
- 6Introduction to Claude Cowork ↗14 lessons · 2.5 hr
When you are ready to hand over whole tasks rather than single questions.
What the track leaves out
Courses teach capability, not habit. What is missing is the part where you keep doing it in week six, and what to do when your team does not.
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The 355-resource catalog, triaged. What to take, what to skip, and the two courses almost everyone should start with.
What Claude Academy doesn't teach you
Nine things a vendor course structurally cannot cover, and where they cost you.
The four Claude certifications, explained
Who can actually sit them, what they test, and whether the credential is worth the prep time.
The AI timeline
Every significant release from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Microsoft — dated, sourced, going back to 2022.