Free courses for learning to build AI agents
Free courses and a workshop for learning to build AI agents, from Anthropic's own lessons to a full open-source curriculum.
3 ways to learn, checked Oct 22, 2026.
What it costs to ship
Cheapest start: $0. All three are free to watch or read, and Claude has a free plan. The hands-on parts run in Claude Code. Claude Code comes with Claude Pro, $17/mo billed annually ($20 monthly). The workshop also needs an Anthropic API key.
Claude (opens in a new tab)
The assistant the Claude Academy courses teach, with a free plan
Limited free tier$20/mo ($17/mo billed annually)Pricing checked · Oct 22, 2026 · source for Claude's pricing (opens in a new tab)Claude Code (opens in a new tab)
Runs the Managed Agent workshop and the coding-agent tutor in AI Engineering from Scratch
Paid only$20/mo, or $17/mo billed annuallyPricing checked · Oct 21, 2026 · source for Claude Code's pricing (opens in a new tab)
The 3 ways to learn
Claude Academy (opens in a new tab)
academy.claude.com
Anthropic's free courses on Claude, Claude Code, MCP, agent skills and subagents, plus its AI Fluency series.
AI Engineering from Scratch (opens in a new tab)
github.com
An open-source curriculum of 542 lessons in 20 phases, from model internals to agent runtimes, in Python, TypeScript, Rust and Julia. Learn on its website, run the code, or let a coding agent tutor you.
FreeFree (MIT)Price checked · Oct 22, 2026 · source for AI Engineering from Scratch’s pricing (opens in a new tab)Ship your first Managed Agent (opens in a new tab)
claude.com
Anthropic's 45-minute workshop: build an incident-investigator agent on Claude Managed Agents with custom tools, then add subagents, memory and file output.
FreeFreePrice checked · Oct 22, 2026 · source for Ship your first Managed Agent’s pricing (opens in a new tab)
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