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This is Anthropic's hands-on course teaching you how to write better prompts for Claude, with 9 chapters covering prompt structure, common failure modes, and practical techniques. You work through exercises and test examples in a live playground to see how prompt changes affect Claude's responses.
- The course teaches 80/20 techniques to fix common prompt failures and covers Claude's specific strengths and weaknesses
- It's structured as 9 chapters plus an appendix, designed to be worked through in order with practice exercises and an answer key
- The tutorial uses Claude 3 Haiku (the smallest and cheapest model) but notes that Sonnet and Opus are available as more capable alternatives
The author argues that treating prompts as disposable is wasteful—instead, build modular "skills" (organized folders with instructions and scripts) that you improve over time and chain together. He breaks down 17 tactics from Anthropic engineers into 6 layers, showing how to structure workflows so improvements compound across tasks rather than starting from scratch each time.
- The author rebuilt a 600-line SEO prompt into six modular skill files (research, audit, metadata, internal links, GSC monitoring, title scoring), and improving one now improves every workflow that uses it.
- The core shift is from one-off prompting to building reusable "skills"—folders with a SKILL.md file, scripts, and references—that Claude runs identically every time and that get refined after each failure.
- Anthropic engineers' 17 tactics get grouped into 6 layers, with the top priority being: stop writing custom prompts for repetitive tasks and instead build slash-command-invoked skills.
- The lasting value comes from the infrastructure built on top of Claude, not from any single prompt, which evaporates once the session ends.
Anthropic released a free, registration-free 27-minute workshop teaching you how to prompt their Claude AI, led by its creators. It packs practical techniques into the first eight minutes that rival paid courses.
- Anthropic released a free, no-signup 27-minute prompt engineering workshop taught by Claude's own creators
- The first 8 minutes cover basics (context, roles, output length) before moving into advanced techniques like few-shot examples, iterative refinement, and error-handling prompts
- It includes live demos in the Claude interface with side-by-side "good vs. great" prompt comparisons
- The author considers it more valuable than $300+ paid courses that were mostly filler