Make the first call
Send a request with messages.create, read the structured response, and choose a model by weighing cost and latency.
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Overview
You’ve made a few API calls. This course gets Claude acting on its own.
Claude Platform 101 is a 90-minute Academy course for developers adding AI to a product or prototyping an agent. You send a first request, build an agent loop by hand and with Tool Runner, then add tools, skills, MCP and managed agents. You need code in one language, command-line basics and a Console API key, but no LLM experience; one quiz leads to the badge.
6Modules
1.5Hours
5Skills
7Roles
What it covers
Learn all the way down.
Learn all the way down.
Perform when it matters.
Build an agent loop
Write the loop by hand, then replace it with the SDK’s Tool Runner, adding tool use and extended thinking.
Extend the agent
Add built-in tools, skills and MCP servers, and keep long-running agents inside the context window.
Run managed agents
Build a managed agent that consumes the event stream while Anthropic runs the loop, and review code agents write.
Course outline
From messages.create
From messages.create
to a managed agent.
We design this course ourselves. Anthropic issues the credential, and LUNARTECH is independent of Anthropic.
Send your first request and read what comes back. You learn what the platform offers, how a response is structured, and how to weigh model choice against cost and latency.
- What the Claude Platform includes
- Creating a key in the Console
- Sending a request with messages.create
- Reading the structured response
- Choosing a model by cost and latency
You build A script that sends one request and prints the response, tokens and cost.
An agent is a loop around a model. You write the loop by hand, then replace it with the SDK’s Tool Runner, giving Claude tools and room to think before it acts.
- What an agent loop does
- Defining a tool
- Writing the loop by hand
- Replacing it with Tool Runner
- Extended thinking in an agent
You build An agent that answers questions using one tool, first as a hand-written loop, then with Tool Runner.
Agents get stronger with more to work with. You add built-in tools, skills and MCP servers, and see how each way of extending an agent differs.
- Built-in tools
- Skills and when to use them
- MCP servers as connections
- Choosing how to extend an agent
- Adding an extension to your agent
You build Your agent extended with a built-in tool and an MCP server.
Long tasks outgrow the context window. You manage context so that agents stay affordable and focused, and see what happens to cost and quality when you do not.
- How the context window fills
- Cost of long-running agents
- Trimming and clearing old results
- Summarizing and compacting
- Prompt caching in agents
You build A long-running agent that stays within a context budget.
With managed agents, Anthropic runs the loop and you consume the events. You learn what that changes, build one, and read its event stream as it works.
- What managed agents are
- What you give up and what you gain
- Creating a managed agent
- Consuming the event stream
- Reading what the agent did
You build A managed agent with a small client that prints its events as they arrive.
Claude Code can build with the API alongside you. You use it to write platform code, and learn how to review what an agent wrote before you trust it.
- Using Claude Code to build with the API
- Prompting for platform code
- Reading generated code critically
- Testing agent-written code
- Deciding what to accept and what to rewrite
You build A small API feature written with Claude Code and reviewed against a checklist.
Issued by
Certifying body · Independent of LUNARTECH
Anthropic
Four role-based certifications for people building on Claude, and free Academy courses with badges. The four certifications are open to members of the Claude Partner Network, not the general public. Membership is free for firms. Exams are proctored and delivered by Pearson, and the credential is issued through Credly. Academy courses are free, and a badge comes from passing the course’s quizzes.
How you get there
Top-tier roles go to people who can do the work.
Top-tier roles go to people who can do the work.
Here’s how you get there.
Know where you start.
Comfort reading and writing code in one language, basic command-line skills, and a Claude Console account with an API key. No prior LLM experience is needed.
Work through the course.
Six modules, designed by LUNARTECH, at your own pace.
Earn it with Anthropic.
Anthropic issues the credential, so you earn it directly with them.
Support
Support at every stage.
Support at every stage.
You won’t be working through this alone.
Before you start
Try it first.
A 3-day free trial opens a selection of the content. Your card is only charged once it ends.
While you learn
Mentors within reach.
Stuck on a concept? Reach out to a mentor whenever you need help.
While you learn
One-on-one sessions.
On the yearly plan, one-on-one sessions give you dedicated support.
Any time
A team behind you.
Write to info@lunartech.ai at any point, from your trial onwards. If your employer is funding you, we’ll set it up with them directly.
All the way through
A schedule that fits around your life.
Your own paceFrom anywhereAt any hour
After the last lesson
Stay in the network.
Your alumni network stays with you: ongoing support, opportunities and industry insight.
Career support
Career support, past the last lesson. Coaching, a sharper resume, real interview preparation and the people to know.
Career direction
Tailored coaching helps you decide where to aim and how to get there.
Strong portfolio
Hands-on projects become work you can show, not just claim.
Resume and profile
Personalized refinement, so what you send says what you can actually do.
Interview preparation
Preparation for the questions that decide it, so you walk in ready.
Network and search
Connections with industry leaders, and an alumni network that stays with you.
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Real stories from the community.
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The programme’s clear, bite-sized content and practical projects dramatically improved my speed from fuzzy idea to MVP and my ability to communicate AI value. I followed the system, and it works.
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As a Data Science graduate, I want to thank you for the effort you put into making videos to support growing data scientists.
I’ve been following your work since taking your machine learning course, and I’m impressed by your practical approach to applying AI.
Why choose us
Built around how you actually learn.
One standard behind every course, from the first lesson to long after the last.
Hands-on practice
Apply every idea to real problems, so it becomes something you have used, not only seen.
Industry-aligned curriculum
We keep courses current with the tools, techniques and skills the field asks for.
Flexible learning
Study at your own pace, from anywhere, at any hour.
Certificate of completion
Finish the course and earn a certificate that shows what you have learned.
Focus on your success
Personalized learning plans and support structures carry you through the hard parts.
Lifetime alumni network
Stay connected after you finish, with ongoing support, opportunities and industry insight.
Your certificate
It doesn’t raise its voice. Neither will you.
Finish a LUNARTECH course and its certificate is issued in your name, under our signature. Anthropic’s credential comes from Anthropic.
Certificate of completion
Your Name
Claude Platform 101 course
LUNARTECH RISE Academy
Pricing
This course comes with the membership.
This course comes with the membership.
So does everything else.
One membership opens every course, certification, workshop and masterclass in the Academy. Every plan starts with a 3-day free trial. Anthropic issues the credential.
3 days free, then $29.97 a month. Your card is only charged once the trial ends.
Included in every plan
- Every course in the Academy
- Every certification course
- Workshops and masterclasses
- A certificate of completion
- A 3-day free trial
- Learning at your own pace
- The lifetime alumni network
- Upgrades at any time
In practice
Seven roles.
Seven roles.
One credential across them all.
No single job owns it. Here’s where each role leans hardest, and where its work ends up.
- 01Platform
- 02Agent basics
- 03Extending
- 04Managed agents
- 05Claude Code
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One API call is where most AI features begin. An agent loop is what comes after it.
Platform, Agent basics
Product engineering, Prototyping
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Context limits decide how long an agent can work. Managed agents move the loop to Anthropic.
Agent basics, Extending, Managed agents
Startups, Internal tooling
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Claude Code can build with the API for you. You still have to review what it wrote.
Platform, Claude Code
Prototyping, Startups
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Prototype an agent before you commit a roadmap to one. The agent loop is the part worth understanding first.
Platform, Agent basics
Startups, Prototyping
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A rough agent shows what a feature could really do. Picking a model by test beats picking by reputation.
Platform, Agent basics
Product engineering, Prototyping
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A first request is a few lines in any language. Tools and skills extend what it can reach.
Platform, Extending
Product engineering, Prototyping
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An agent loop is a while loop around a model call. Managed agents hand that loop to a hosted service.
Agent basics, Managed agents
Product engineering, Internal tooling
- Product engineering
- Startups
- Internal tooling
- Prototyping
Software Engineer
One API call is where most AI features begin. An agent loop is what comes after it.
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LUNARTECH gives you the skills
to learn, build, create and lead.
Engineers
Understand systems all the way down. Build the ones others rely on.
Scientists
Understand what the data says. Build models that hold up.
Researchers
Understand the papers. Build on them, and take the work further.
The field
Anyone can use AI.
Anyone can use AI.
Few can engineer it. This is where that starts.
+340%growth in open roles requiring AI skills
Roles and pay
~35,000 open roles right now
Open roles: Built In, Greenhouse, LinkedIn.
Typical salaries: Glassdoor, Levels.fyi, Payscale, Indeed, Ravio, JobRise, U.S. BLS. Military: 2026 U.S. basic pay, drone officers with aviation incentive pay.
Updated November 2026.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
Need help? These answers cover most of what people ask before they start.
No. Anthropic issues it. LUNARTECH is independent of Anthropic, and its names and marks belong to it. When you finish a course of ours, you earn a LUNARTECH certificate of completion for that course.
No. We design this course ourselves, around what the credential covers. Anthropic has no part in it, and you still earn the credential directly with Anthropic.
1.5 hours, online course. The passing score is Pass the course quiz.
Comfort reading and writing code in one language, basic command-line skills, and a Claude Console account with an API key. No prior LLM experience is needed.
Does not expire. Completion badges do not expire. You can retake a course after a major update.
We last reviewed it on 5 November 2026, from Anthropic’s own pages. Details change, so check the official page before you book.
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The course
Build the skills behind Claude Platform 101.
Take a first build on the Claude Platform from API call to agent. Start with a free trial, or enroll in a plan and work through the course at your own pace. Anthropic issues the credential.
LUNARTECH is independent of the vendors and certifying bodies listed here. Their names, exam titles and marks belong to them, exams are run by them, and credentials are issued by them. Reviewed 5 November 2026. Catalogues change often, so confirm the details on the official page before you book.
