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Generative AIBeginner
Anthropic's official interactive prompt engineering tutorial. Nine chapters covering basic prompt structure, role assignment, separating data and instructions, chain-of-thought, and complex real-world prompts. Hands-on with the Claude API.
Generative AIIntermediate
Anthropic's open-source course catalogue covering the Claude API fundamentals, prompt evaluations, real-world prompting, prompt engineering, and tool use. Each course is a hands-on Jupyter notebook series.
Generative AIIntermediate
The official MCP documentation and quickstart. Learn what MCP is, why it standardises tool use across LLMs, and how to build your own MCP servers and clients. The canonical resource for the protocol that underpins modern AI agents.
Head to head
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They run in order of how much subject matter the two platforms share, so the near-substitutes for Anthropic come first and the ones that barely overlap sit at the end. Each card names what the other platform is best at, which is usually enough to tell whether the comparison is worth your time.
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