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The Claude Masterclass
From First Prompt to Production Agent
About this workbook
A 22-chapter field guide that takes you from your first prompt to production agents — covering prompt engineering, the Claude API, production reliability patterns, RAG, and the Model Context Protocol. Written for engineers who want systems that survive contact with real users, not demos.
THE COMPLETE READING PATH
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Part 1: Understanding Claude
- What Claude Actually Is (and What It Isn't) 12 min
- Constitutional AI: The Guardrails That Matter 11 min
- Artifacts and Extended Thinking 10 min
Part 2: The Prompt Engineer's Toolkit
- Anatomy of a Prompt That Works 12 min
- Zero-Shot, Few-Shot, and Chain-of-Thought 11 min
- Roles, Context, and the Art of Constraint 12 min
- Integrations and Deployment 10 min
Part 3: The API Layer
- Your First API Call 12 min
- Multi-Turn Conversations 11 min
- Structured Responses and JSON Mode 11 min
- Streaming and Real-Time Output 10 min
Part 4: Production Engineering
- Building Context-Aware Applications 12 min
- Task-Based Mini-Agents 12 min
- Reliability and Error Handling 11 min
- The Cost-Performance Tradeoff 11 min
Part 5: RAG — Giving Claude a Memory
- What RAG Is and When You Need It 12 min
- Chunking, Embeddings, and the Ranking Pipeline 12 min
- Building a Production RAG System 13 min
Part 6: MCP and the Agent Frontier
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