APIMade · Education series
Take the slower route: everyday explanations, worked examples and visual guides to building and operating Claude systems.
Interactive course
Explore all 12 chapters in 72 animated steps. Follow flowcharts and sequence diagrams, trace alternate paths, and pause at each decision or handoff.
Listen in order, read along, or open the synchronized slideshow. Episodes 0–6 cover Foundations; episodes 7–11 widen the view to Professional responsibilities. Workplace examples are illustrative, not reports of real customer deployments.
The comprehensive track takes more time to unpack terminology, work through examples and consider trade-offs.
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12 in listening order
A fictional complaints assistant makes the difference concrete: Foundations builds the components; Professional owns the wider production solution.
High-level comparison of Foundations and Professional content
A progressive guide to building a governed agentic loop that preserves state, validates actions, handles evidence and errors, combines model judgment with deterministic controls, and stops honestly.
Foundations: Agentic Architecture and Orchestration
This episode explains how to coordinate specialised agents while preserving context, evidence, authority, failure visibility, durable state, and accountable human control.
Foundations: Agentic Architecture and Orchestration
A progressive lesson on designing narrow tool contracts, choosing the right MCP primitive, enforcing least privilege, handling uncertainty safely, and keeping model guidance separate from trusted security controls.
Foundations: Tool Design and MCP Integration
A comprehensive explanation of Claude Code as a governed engineering environment, covering layered guidance, reusable Skills, scoped tools, planning, sessions, programmatic continuous integration, evidence-based review, lifecycle hooks, and the controls that turn suggestions into enforceable boundaries.
Foundations: Claude Code Configuration and Workflows
This episode turns prompt engineering into an end-to-end reliability practice built on measurable success criteria, representative examples, constrained structure, semantic validation, bounded repair, independent verification, and operational controls.
Foundations: Prompt Engineering and Structured Output
Episode Six completes Foundations by showing how durable state, selective context, honest uncertainty, traceable evidence, escalation, validation, approval, and deterministic controls combine into one reliable agent workflow.
Foundations: Context Management and Reliability
This episode teaches how to turn a business need into an end-to-end Claude solution whose automation pattern, controls, service levels, evidence, ownership, and measurable value can all be justified.
Professional: Solution Design; Models, Prompting and Context Engineering
A comprehensive guide to building retrieval and integration systems that preserve identity, permissions, applicability, evidence, diagnosability, and proportionate protocol choices without confusing fluent generation with verified truth.
Professional: Integration
A comprehensive guide to evaluating an AI-enabled workflow, locating failures across its components, running trustworthy experiments, and improving cost or latency while protecting quality, permissions, approvals, and higher-risk cohorts.
Professional: Evaluation, Testing and Optimisation
A comprehensive guide to governing Claude-based workplace systems by connecting harm models, trust boundaries, prompt-injection defenses, authenticated approval, human review, data governance, fairness, resilience, incident response, evidence, and accountable ownership.
Professional: Governance, Safety and Risk Management
This episode connects stakeholder agreement, architecture decisions, lifecycle delivery, developer and operational enablement, controlled change, and evidence-led improvement into one production view.
Professional: Stakeholder and Lifecycle Management; Developer Enablement