MCP: Build Rich-Context AI Apps with Anthropic
For: Developers building production AI agents in 2026
Hand-reviewed courses, official docs, and tutorials for Claude. Editorial picks ordered by what we'd recommend.
Claude — Anthropic's frontier LLM — gets 6,000+ monthly searches for "claude tutorial" with a SERP split between Anthropic's own materials and YouTube content. The high-leverage learning investment isn't the chat interface (intuitive on day one); it's the API + prompt engineering patterns that make Claude work well at scale.
The right learning path for Claude in 2026: start with Anthropic's prompt engineering tutorial (free, interactive), then work through the Anthropic Cookbook for production patterns, then commit to using Claude API for one real project (a side tool, an internal automation) to internalize the cost/latency tradeoffs.
For: Developers building production AI agents in 2026
For: Developers writing their first LLM-powered feature
For: Anyone whose primary LLM is Claude (or who builds with Anthropic API)
The canonical free resource for learning Claude-specific prompt patterns. Jupyter + Google Sheets variants.
Production patterns for the Claude API — tool use, structured outputs, vision, agents.
Reference for all API features — messages, tools, vision, structured outputs.
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