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285 lessons covering Claude fundamentals and every study area of the 5 official CCA-F exam domains, plus the Claude 101 and AI Fluency courses. Each lesson has practical examples, anti-patterns, and embedded quizzes. New here? Follow the guided learning path instead of browsing, it orders everything from fundamentals through the domains by exam weight.
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Context Window Managementintermediate
25m
Token Budgetingintermediate
20m
Context Compressionadvanced
25m
Retrieval-Augmented Generationadvanced
30m
Prompt Cachingintermediate
20m
Document Structuringintermediate
20m
The Context Engineering Stackintermediate
25m
Context Sources: A Six-Level Taxonomyintermediate
25m
Context Management and Orchestrationadvanced
30m
Context Evaluation, Observability, and Governanceadvanced
25m
Module 1: Claude Code from First Principlesbeginner
20m
Module 2: Core Capabilities and the Agentic Loopbeginner
25m
Module 3: Setup, Platforms, and First Sessionbeginner
20m
Module 4: Models, Effort, Context, and Speedintermediate
25m
Module 5: Project Configuration and Settingsintermediate
25m
Module 6: Scoped Project Rules and Memoryintermediate
25m
Module 7: Permissions, Auto Mode, and Sandboxingadvanced
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Module 8: Built-in Tools and Action Boundariesintermediate
20m
Module 9: Sessions, Context, and Recoveryintermediate
20m
Module 10: Parallel Work, Forks, and Worktreesadvanced
25m
Module 11: Workflow Orchestrationadvanced
30m
Module 12: Commands and Session Controlbeginner
25m
Module 13: Output Styles and Interface Customizationintermediate
20m
Module 14: Hooks and Lifecycle Automationadvanced
25m
Module 15: Skills and Reusable Workflowsintermediate
25m
Module 16: Plugins, Marketplaces, and Componentsadvanced
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Module 17: Plugin Mods and In-Process Extensionsadvanced
30m
Module 18: Plugin Tests, Evals, and Quality Gatesadvanced
25m
Module 19: MCP Integrationadvanced
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Module 20: Browser, Chrome, and Computer Useintermediate
25m
Module 21: CLI and Non-Interactive Claude Codeintermediate
25m
Module 22: CI Integrations and Automated Code Reviewadvanced
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Module 23: Desktop, Cloud, Remote Control, and Projectsintermediate
25m
Module 24: Scheduled Tasks and Event-Driven Automationadvanced
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Module 25: Security Scanning and Review Workflowsadvanced
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Module 26: Enterprise Deployment and Administrationadvanced
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Module 27: Cost, Usage, Analytics, and Observabilityintermediate
25m
Module 28: Reliability, Security, and Team Practicesintermediate
25m
Module 29: Agent SDK and Programmatic Claude Codeadvanced
30m
Module 30: Capstone and Complete Feature Atlasadvanced
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What Is Claudebeginner
15m
Your First Conversationbeginner
20m
Getting Better Resultsbeginner
15m
Desktop App: Chat, Cowork, and Codebeginner
10m
Introduction to Projectsbeginner
20m
Creating with Artifactsbeginner
20m
Working with Skillsbeginner
15m
Connecting Your Tools with Connectorsbeginner
20m
Enterprise Searchintermediate
15m
Research Mode for Deep Divesintermediate
15m
Claude in Action: Use Cases by Rolebeginner
10m
Other Ways to Work with Claudebeginner
10m
What's Next: Course Recap & Continued Learningbeginner
5m
Introduction to AI Fluencybeginner
15m
Why AI Fluency Mattersbeginner
10m
The 4D Framework for AI Fluencybeginner
20m
Generative AI Fundamentalsbeginner
15m
AI Capabilities and Limitationsbeginner
15m
A Closer Look at Delegationbeginner
20m
Project Planning with AI Delegationintermediate
25m
A Closer Look at Descriptionbeginner
20m
Effective Prompting Techniquesbeginner
20m
A Closer Look at Discernmentintermediate
20m
The Description-Discernment Loopintermediate
30m
A Closer Look at Diligenceintermediate
20m
Conclusion and Next Stepsbeginner
20m
Introduction to Agentic Engineeringbeginner
25m
Agent Architecture: Capability Map and Runtime Shapeintermediate
30m
Perception and Memory in Agentsintermediate
30m
Reasoning and Planningadvanced
30m
Action and Tool Use in Agentsadvanced
30m
Reflection and Self-Correctionadvanced
25m
Single Agent Design Patternsadvanced
30m
Multi-Agent Systems: Why and Whenadvanced
25m
Multi-Agent Orchestration Patternsexpert
30m
Communication, Handoffs, and Coordinationexpert
30m
Agent Governance and Trustadvanced
25m
Production Agent Engineeringexpert
30m
What is a Language Model?beginner
12m
How Claude Processes Your Requestbeginner
12m
Writing Good Prompts: No Code Requiredbeginner
15m
Reading and Evaluating AI Outputbeginner
12m
Claude Use Cases by Rolebeginner
15m
AI Limitations and Risksbeginner
15m
When Your Product Uses Claudebeginner
12m
Getting Started: Non-Technical Checklistbeginner
10m
What Is OpenCodebeginner
15m
Installation & First Sessionbeginner
20m
Agent System: Build, Plan, and Subagentsintermediate
25m
Configuration & opencode.jsonintermediate
25m
Tools & File Operationsintermediate
30m
Session Management & Contextintermediate
25m
Permission System & Securityintermediate
25m
Skills, Plugins & Customizationadvanced
30m
MCP Integrationadvanced
25m
CLI Commands & Workflowsintermediate
30m
OpenCode 2.0: Core Architecture & Event Sourcingadvanced
35m
OpenCode 2.0 Internals: TUI, Subagents, Cross-OS & Contributingadvanced
40m
OpenCode 2.0: Provider Registry, LLM Streaming, and Retryadvanced
40m
OpenCode 2.0: File Intelligence, Ripgrep, File Watching, and LSPadvanced
35m
OpenCode 2.0: Plugin System, Skills, and Project Knowledge Injectionadvanced
35m
OpenCode 2.0: Storage, SQLite Schema, Sync, and Session Sharingadvanced
35m
The Four Layers of AI Engineeringbeginner
20m
Prompt Engineering for Loop Engineersintermediate
20m
Context Engineering for Loop Engineersintermediate
20m
Harness Engineering: Single-Run Reliabilityadvanced
35m
Harness Engineering: Advanced Patternsadvanced
35m
Loop Engineering: System Designexpert
35m
Loop Engineering: Implementationexpert
35m
Loop Engineering: Ecosystem & Careerintermediate
25m
From Prompt to Graph: The Five Layersbeginner
20m
Graph Thinking: Nodes, Edges, and Stateintermediate
25m
Workflow Topologies: The Five Patterns as Graphsintermediate
30m
Building Graphs: Frameworks and Patternsadvanced
30m
Loop or Graph? Design Decisionsexpert
30m
Graph Engineering in Practiceintermediate
25m
Day 1: Choose a Real Problem and Define the Outcomebeginner
45m
Day 2: Map the Workflow, Data, and Constraintsbeginner
45m
Day 3: Create a Reproducible Development Environmentbeginner
45m
Day 4: Call a Model Through a Small, Testable Boundarybeginner
45m
Day 5: Design Prompts as Versioned Product Contractsbeginner
45m
Day 6: Budget and Assemble Contextintermediate
45m
Day 7: Make Model Output Typed and Validatedintermediate
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Day 8: Define Safe and Useful Tool Contractsintermediate
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Day 9: Choose a Workflow Before an Agent Loopintermediate
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Day 10: Build a Bounded Agent Loopintermediate
45m
Day 11: Add Knowledge Retrieval to the Productintermediate
45m
Day 12: Separate Conversation State from Durable Memoryintermediate
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Day 13: Design the Review Experience and Streaming UXintermediate
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Day 14: Shape the Application API and Service Boundariesintermediate
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Day 15: Persist Work Safely and Make Retries Idempotentintermediate
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Day 16: Test the System at the Right Boundariesadvanced
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Day 17: Build an Evaluation Set Before Tuning Furtheradvanced
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Day 18: Measure Quality and Diagnose Failuresadvanced
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Day 19: Protect Against Prompt Injection and Unsafe Actionsadvanced
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Day 20: Apply Privacy, Retention, and Data Governanceadvanced
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Day 21: Trace Requests with Useful Observabilityadvanced
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Day 22: Control Cost with Product-Level Budgetsadvanced
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Day 23: Reduce Latency Without Hiding Workadvanced
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Day 24: Design Retries, Fallbacks, and Recoveryadvanced
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Day 25: Add Guardrails and Human Escalationadvanced
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Day 26: Prepare CI and a Reproducible Deploymentadvanced
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Day 27: Launch Gradually and Collect Actionable Feedbackadvanced
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Day 28: Monitor Production and Practice an Incidentadvanced
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Day 29: Integrate the Vertical Slice and Verify Acceptanceadvanced
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Day 30: Present the System and Plan Its Next Iterationadvanced
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Day 1: Frame the Question RAG Must Answerbeginner
45m
Day 2: Audit and Govern the Source Corpusbeginner
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Day 3: Create a Gold Set with Evidence Labelsbeginner
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Day 4: Build a Robust Document Ingestion Pipelinebeginner
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Day 5: Preserve Structure During Parsing and Cleanupbeginner
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Day 6: Choose and Evaluate Chunk Boundariesintermediate
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Day 7: Design Metadata for Filtering and Provenanceintermediate
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Day 8: Select and Evaluate an Embedding Modelintermediate
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Day 9: Build a Vector Index and Understand Its Tradeoffsintermediate
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Day 10: Add Lexical Retrieval for Exact Termsintermediate
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Day 11: Combine Dense and Lexical Results with Hybrid Searchintermediate
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Day 12: Apply Metadata Filters Without Losing Relevant Evidenceintermediate
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Day 13: Understand, Rewrite, and Route Queriesintermediate
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Day 14: Rerank Candidates for Relevanceintermediate
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Day 15: Assemble Context Under a Token Budgetintermediate
45m
Day 16: Write Grounded Answers from Retrieved Evidenceadvanced
45m
Day 17: Render and Validate Citationsadvanced
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Day 18: Design Abstention and Clarification Behavioradvanced
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Day 19: Measure Retrieval with Ranking Metricsadvanced
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Day 20: Evaluate Answer Quality and Groundednessadvanced
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Day 21: Diagnose Retrieval, Generation, and Corpus Failuresadvanced
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Day 22: Secure Retrieval Against Injection and Access Leaksadvanced
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Day 23: Keep Indexes Fresh and Handle Deletionadvanced
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Day 24: Handle Tables, Scans, and Multimodal Documentsadvanced
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Day 25: Route Across Multiple Knowledge Sourcesadvanced
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Day 26: Scale RAG Architecture and Index Operationsadvanced
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Day 27: Optimize Latency and Cost by Stageadvanced
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Day 28: Instrument RAG Traces and Quality Signalsadvanced
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Day 29: Run Controlled Experiments and Release Changes Safelyadvanced
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Day 30: Capstone: Ship FieldDesk and PolicyDesk RAGadvanced
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Day 1: Understand the FDE Role and Define Your Operating Principlesbeginner
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Day 2: Run Customer Discovery Interviewsbeginner
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Day 3: Observe and Map the Real Workflowbeginner
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Day 4: Baseline Outcomes and Choose Useful Metricsbeginner
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Day 5: Map Stakeholders, Incentives, and Decision Rightsbeginner
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Day 6: Turn Discovery into Clear Requirementsintermediate
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Day 7: Inventory Systems, Data, and Integration Boundariesintermediate
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Day 8: Navigate Enterprise Readiness and Procurement Constraintsintermediate
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Day 9: Protect Identity, Secrets, and Data Accessintermediate
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Day 10: Scope a Thin Slice and Protect the Timelineintermediate
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Day 11: Prototype Quickly with Realistic Tasksintermediate
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Day 12: Test Feasibility Against Customer Evidenceintermediate
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Day 13: Choose AI and Deterministic Boundariesintermediate
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Day 14: Design Integration Contracts and Failure Behaviorintermediate
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Day 15: Build the First End-to-End Vertical Sliceintermediate
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Day 16: Design Evaluations and Acceptance Tests with Usersadvanced
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Day 17: Threat Model the Customer Workflowadvanced
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Day 18: Plan Test Environments and Data Fixturesadvanced
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Day 19: Deploy with CI, Configuration, and Rollbackadvanced
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Day 20: Build Operational Dashboards and Runbooksadvanced
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Day 21: Run a Customer Validation Workshopadvanced
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Day 22: Communicate Clearly Across Technical and Executive Audiencesadvanced
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Day 23: Launch a Safe Pilot with Training and Feedbackadvanced
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Day 24: Measure Adoption and Business Outcomesadvanced
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Day 25: Respond to Incidents and Debug with the Customeradvanced
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Day 26: Manage Scope Changes and Difficult Decisionsadvanced
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Day 27: Build a Credible ROI and Executive Caseadvanced
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Day 28: Productize Reusable Patterns Across Customersadvanced
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Day 29: Capstone: Deliver the Northstar Engagementadvanced
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Day 30: Build Your FDE Portfolio and Sustainable Practiceadvanced
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