Mastering Claude AI: Prompting, APIs, RAG, and MCP

About this course

This specialization teaches you how to design and build intelligent AI applications using Anthropic’s Claude, progressing from effective prompting to production-ready systems built with APIs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). In Course 1: Claude AI and Prompting for Everyone, you will learn Claude’s core capabilities, understand safety behavior, work with long documents, and develop clear, structured prompting skills. In Course 2: Developing Applications with Claude API, you will move from interactive use to application development by structuring API requests, building multi-turn conversations, generating structured outputs, and creating context-aware AI agents. In Course 3: Building RAG and MCP Servers with Claude, you will design production-grade AI systems by building MCP servers, implementing retrieval pipelines, and integrating RAG, tools, and automation into complete workflows. This specialization is ideal for developers, technical professionals, and AI enthusiasts. Basic familiarity with Python or APIs is helpful but not required. By the end of this specialization, you will be able to confidently prompt Claude, build intelligent applications, and design scalable AI systems that retrieve knowledge and automate workflows reliably.

Course objectives

• teach effective prompting techniques
• structure API requests for application development
• design production-grade AI systems