Five progressive levels — from your first prompt to multi‑agent systems, with real‑world use cases.
Beginner
level 1
Chat basics, prompt craft, and Claude’s style.
prompt role
foundation
Intermediate
level 2
System prompts, tool use, structured data.
system tools
builder
Advanced
level 3
Multi‑step reasoning, RAG, long context.
RAG CoT
architect
Expert
level 4
Fine‑tuning, evals, safety & adversarial.
safety evals
specialist
Master
level 5
Multi‑agent, MLOps, frontier research.
agents research
visionary
Beginner
level 1 · foundation
Claude’s constitutional AI & personality
Crafting clear, specific prompts
Role prompting & persona setting
Summarization, Q&A, and writing
Use case: Email assistant
“You are a professional email assistant. Draft a polite follow‑up email to a client about the pending proposal, keeping it concise and warm.”
Intermediate
level 2 · builder
System prompts & output control
Tool use (function calling) with Claude
Structured data extraction (JSON, tables)
Multi‑turn conversations with memory
Use case: Weather & calendar agent
“Use the weather API to check tomorrow’s forecast in Tokyo, then summarize it and suggest an outfit.”
Advanced
level 3 · architect
Chain‑of‑thought & multi‑step reasoning
Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG)
Prompt chaining and task decomposition
Working with long documents
Use case: Legal document analyzer
“Extract all key obligations from this 50‑page contract, summarize each clause, and flag any unusual liability terms.”
Expert
level 4 · specialist
Fine‑tuning with custom datasets
Evaluation & benchmarking (MATH, GSM8K)
Adversarial robustness & red‑teaming
Prompt injection defense
Use case: Safety evaluator
“Design a red‑team prompt that tries to bypass safety filters, then analyze Claude’s response and suggest a mitigation.”
Master
level 5 · visionary
Multi‑agent systems & orchestration
MLOps for Claude (deployment, monitoring)
Scaling: cost, latency, quality
Frontier reasoning & planning
Use case: Research agent team
“Orchestrate three agents: one for literature review, one for hypothesis generation, and one for experiment design. They debate and refine a research plan.”
Start your Claude journey
Each level includes a practical use case — from email drafting to multi‑agent debate. Build skills step by step.