Anthropic now offers a catalogue of free online courses on its AI tools. These structured learning paths, featuring video lessons and assessments, are designed for a broad audience, including educators and students.
Claude Code and the recent Cowork tool extend well beyond software development. They illustrate the rise of AI agents, designed to assist users with complex tasks: data processing, workflow automation, rapid prototyping. Their growing adoption across research, industry, and business makes understanding these tools increasingly relevant regardless of one’s discipline.
The courses also cover the Model Context Protocol (MCP), which enables Claude to interact with external services. These agentic architectures raise important questions around methodology, reproducibility, governance, dependency on proprietary platforms, model transparency, and data confidentiality that are directly relevant to the academic community.