What you will find here
Eleven sections, one reading order. Start at any level that fits your experience. Every entry links to its original source.
About Claude
Claude is an AI system built by Anthropic, designed around principles of helpfulness, safety, and honesty. It operates as a conversational interface at claude.ai, as an agentic coding tool via Claude Code, and as an API for integration into custom applications.
Use Claude
Foundational resources for working with Claude in daily tasks: writing, research, structured thinking, and iterative problem-solving. Suitable for all skill levels.
Core Features You Should Know
These features turn Claude from a chatbot into a persistent workspace. Understanding them is the difference between casual use and real productivity.
Build with Claude
Resources for integrating Claude into applications and development workflows. Covers the API, Claude Code, tool use, and building structured AI systems.
Design Agents with Claude
Advanced resources for building agentic systems: the Agent SDK, Model Context Protocol, reusable skills, multi-agent orchestration, and cloud deployment.
The augmented LLM: the basic building block with retrieval, tools, and memory
Prompt chaining: sequential steps with programmatic checks between LLM calls
Routing: classify inputs, direct to specialized handlers (Haiku vs. Opus)
Parallelization: run sub-tasks simultaneously and aggregate results
Source: anthropic.com/engineering — Building Effective Agents
Core Concepts
The principles that connect everything on this page. How Claude processes information, how you structure it, and how the discipline has evolved from writing prompts to designing complete AI environments.
The evolution: prompt engineering focuses on writing one instruction. Context engineering manages the full state across turns, tools, memory, and retrieval.
Finding the right altitude: too specific creates brittleness, too vague lacks guidance. The sweet spot gives strong heuristics without hardcoding logic.
Source: anthropic.com/engineering — Effective Context Engineering for AI Agents
Tools & Platforms
Official entry points to the Claude ecosystem. Each serves a distinct function in learning, building, or deploying.
Claude Code
Anthropic's agentic coding tool. Runs in terminal, IDE, desktop, and browser. Reads entire codebases, writes and tests code, manages Git, and coordinates sub-agents for complex projects.
How Claude Code processes tasks
MCP integration with GitHub
Tool use and file operations
Written Guides
Cowork
Claude's desktop agent for non-coding work. Runs multi-step tasks in sandboxed folders, coordinates sub-agents, and uses built-in skills for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. macOS and Windows.
Written Guides
Claude Skills
Skills are folders with instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude loads dynamically when relevant. They turn Claude from a general assistant into a specialist for specific tasks. Available across Claude.ai, Claude Code, Cowork, and the API. Open standard since December 2025.
Anatomy of a SKILL.md: metadata (name + description) is loaded at startup, body loaded on demand
Skills bundle additional files: Claude reads them only when the task requires it
Progressive disclosure: metadata → core instructions → nested resources, loaded level by level
How skills activate: system prompt → skill trigger → SKILL.md load → nested file load → task execution
Skills can include executable code: Claude runs scripts without loading them into context
Source: anthropic.com/engineering — Equipping Agents with Agent Skills
7 Steps to Claude Fluency
A clear sequence from first conversation to production agents. Each step builds on the one before. Click any step to explore resources and outcomes.
People & Platforms
Individuals, publications, and communities producing substantive work on Claude, AI systems, and applied workflows.
Anthropic Leadership & Core Team
People directly shaping Claude's development, safety architecture, and product direction.
Pioneers & Researchers
Scientists and educators who shaped the field of AI before the current wave. Their foundational work on learning, vision, fairness, and language made today's models possible.
Creators & Educators
People producing Claude tutorials, workflow demonstrations, and practical AI education across platforms.
YouTube Channels
Video creators covering Claude tutorials, AI tools, and applied workflows.
Newsletters
Curated reading for every level. Daily digests for beginners, strategic analysis for practitioners, technical depth for engineers.
Platforms & Communities
Official documentation, learning platforms, open-source repositories, and community spaces.
Why this page exists
The best investment you can make is in your own ability to learn, build, and create. In developing the skill to work with the right tools directly and to shape them around what you actually need.
This page curates what already exists so you spend less time searching and more time building. Every resource is free. Every link goes to a primary source. The goal is tailored skill, applied knowledge, and real capability you own.
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