Claude released a FREE masterclass curriculum

The internet is full of paid courses about how to use Claude. There are bootcamps charging four figures for what is, strip away the slides, twenty hours of someone reading the Anthropic docs out loud. There are Udemy videos from 2024 that still teach a 100k context window as a hard limit. There are LinkedIn-shaped influencers running cohorts named things like “Mastering AI Agents Cohort 3.”

The actual training, written by the people who build the model, is sitting at anthropic.skilljar.com. It is free. Nobody I know has heard of it.

I went looking for it the same week three separate consulting clients asked me to design a “Claude training programme” for their teams. I had drafted one. Halfway through, I did a basic search and found 18 courses already published by Anthropic themselves. Claude 101. Claude Code 101. Building with the Claude API. Introduction to Model Context Protocol. Introduction to subagents. Introduction to agent skills. AI Fluency tracks for educators, students, small businesses, and nonprofits. Every one of them produced by Anthropic. Every one of them available right now.

When the company that built the tool publishes the official curriculum for free and nobody is sharing it, you are not looking at a discoverability problem. You are looking at a marketing department that does not believe its own training catalogue is the lead story.

The first reason this matters: every other source you have been trusting is already stale. Claude shipped Opus 4.7 a few months ago. The Claude Code CLI changed how permissions and Auto Mode work. MCP is now a proper protocol with primitives of its own. The Udemy video from 2024 that taught your colleague to “prompt engineer” is teaching against a model that no longer exists. The Skilljar courses are produced by Anthropic, updated by Anthropic, and reflect the current state of the product. There is no middleman to be wrong about the details.

The second reason this matters: the course list is a map of what Anthropic thinks a competent user should know. There is a 101 track, a tooling track (Claude Code, the API, Bedrock, Vertex), a primitives track (MCP, skills, subagents), and a fluency track for non-engineers. That is not a marketing taxonomy. That is a syllabus. It tells you where the company believes the work is heading. If you want to know what to learn next, read the table of contents of the training the people who built the thing are willing to put their name on. The ordering is the hint.

I have stopped writing training material for clients. I send them the link, a suggested order, and one hour of my time to explain how to read it. The course list does the work consultants used to charge for. I am fine with that. The companies who run their team through the official training and then start shipping are the ones who book the second engagement anyway.

If your team has been waiting for someone to write the definitive Claude curriculum, stop waiting. Open the site. Pick four courses that match what your team does this week, block two hours every Friday, and ship through them. The bootcamps charging four figures a seat are reselling a worse version of the same material. The only thing keeping them in business is that nobody is sharing the link.

If you want to see it for yourself, the catalogue is at anthropic.skilljar.com. Fair warning, you may catch yourself wondering what your last training budget was actually for.