Building with the Claude API

This course teaches developers how to build applications with Claude's API. Through seven modules, you'll learn API fundamentals, prompt engineering, tool use, retrieval systems, and agentic workflows. By the end, you'll be able to build production applications that use Claude for tasks ranging from simple requests to autonomous agents. Learners will build applications including chat interfaces, evaluation pipelines, tool-enabled systems, retrieval augmented generation implementations, and autonomous agents. These projects apply skills in API integration, prompt engineering, tool design, vector search, and workflow orchestration

• Build applications using Claude tools to interact with external systems and data
• Implement retrieval systems and autonomous workflows for complex tasks
• Apply prompt engineering, tool design, and vector search in real projects

• Basic programming experience in any language
• Familiarity with APIs and HTTP requests is helpful