HumanLayer (Dex Horthy)·GitHub
Free
An influential essay series, modelled on the 12-Factor App, arguing for owning your prompts, context window and control flow, treating tools as structured outputs, and keeping agents small, stateless and pausable. It suits engineers moving agents from demo to production who want design principles rather than another framework tutorial.
intermediate
12 short chapters plus a bonus factor, a few hours of reading
Google and Kaggle's intensive pairs a daily whitepaper with hands-on codelabs on foundation models, embeddings, agents, domain-specific LLMs, and MLOps using Gemini and the Agent Development Kit. For developers who want a dense, free bootcamp-style sprint through Google's GenAI stack.
intermediate
5 days (self-paced)
Covers agent fundamentals (tools, reasoning, actions), then builds agents with smolagents, LangGraph, and LlamaIndex, finishing with a benchmark challenge and leaderboard. For Python developers who want framework-agnostic agent skills and a free certificate.
intermediate
~15-20 hours (5 units plus bonus units)
Certificate
Microsoft's 18-lesson open course on agent design patterns, tool use, planning, multi-agent systems, agentic RAG, memory, trust and security, and protocols like MCP and A2A. For developers who want a free, vendor-documented survey of agent concepts with runnable samples.
beginner
18 lessons, self-paced
Geoffrey Huntley·GitHub
Free
A six-step workshop that grows a basic Claude chat program into a working coding agent by adding file reading, directory listing, shell execution, file editing and code search, explaining the agent event loop along the way. It suits developers comfortable with Go who want to demystify coding agents by writing a minimal one themselves.
intermediate
6-step workshop, a few hours
Anthropic·Anthropic Academy
Free
Anthropic's comprehensive developer course spanning API setup, prompt evaluation, tool use, RAG, extended thinking, prompt caching, MCP, and agent workflows like routing and parallelization. The go-to course for Python developers who want to build production apps on Claude.
intermediate
Self-paced (multi-module with final assessment)
Certificate
Anthropic·Anthropic Academy
Free
Shows developers how to run longer, less supervised Claude Code sessions: plan mode, CLAUDE.md, skills, permission modes, hooks, headless automation, GitHub Actions, and team plugins. For engineers already using Claude Code who want to move to team-wide, verifiable workflows.
intermediate
Self-paced (4 modules)
Certificate
Anthropic·Anthropic Academy
Free
A ground-up introduction to the Claude Platform using the TypeScript SDK: first requests, model selection, agent loops, tool use, built-in tools, skills, MCP, and Managed Agents. For developers who have never used an LLM API and want the fastest route to a working agent.
beginner
Self-paced (~12 lessons)
Certificate
Anthropic·Anthropic Academy
Free
A long technical course on building with Claude through Amazon Bedrock: the API via boto3, prompt evaluation and engineering, tool use, RAG with embeddings and reranking, extended thinking, prompt caching, MCP, and agent design with Claude Code and computer use. For backend, ML and DevOps engineers on AWS who want a free end-to-end path to Bedrock-hosted Claude agents.
intermediate
85 lectures, ~8 hours of video, 10 quizzes
Certificate
OpenAI·OpenAI Academy
Free
Design multi-agent applications with clear roles, controlled tool access and reliable handoffs, then test the workflow against defined outcome and safety requirements in a guided lab. For developers with API experience who want OpenAI's own method for building agentic systems on its platform.
intermediate
~110 minutes (lessons plus guided lab)
Certificate
Microsoft·Microsoft Learn
Free
Builds agents with Microsoft Foundry Agent Service and Microsoft Agent Framework: custom tools, MCP tools, knowledge grounding with Foundry IQ, publishing to Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot, workflows, multi-agent orchestration and A2A discovery. For developers and AI engineers building agents on Azure who want Microsoft's free, code-first path (course AI-3026).
intermediate
9 modules, ~10 hours
Nir Diamant (DiamantAI)·GitHub
Free
A large, community-favourite collection of 64 runnable notebooks, from a beginner conversational agent to multi-agent research, business and QA systems, using LangGraph, PydanticAI, CrewAI, AutoGen, MCP and plain SDK code. It suits Python developers who learn best by reading and modifying working agent code across many frameworks.
intermediate
64 notebook tutorials, self-paced
LangChain·LangChain Academy
Free
Builds long-running agents with Deep Agents, LangChain's open-source agent harness: models, tools, MCP, human-in-the-loop, filesystem backends and sandboxes, summarization, skills and memory, subagent delegation, and a sales-assistant capstone in Python or TypeScript. For developers building complex multi-step agents who want LangChain's current recommended approach.
intermediate
46 lessons (~30 minutes of video plus hands-on labs)
LangChain·LangChain Academy
Free
LangChain's official LangGraph course: graphs, routers and agents, state and memory, streaming and human-in-the-loop breakpoints, parallelization and sub-graphs, long-term memory with the LangGraph Store, and deployment. For Python developers who want precise control over agent workflows, taught by the team that builds the framework.
intermediate
~6 hours of video (55 lessons)
Anthropic·Anthropic Academy
Free
Teaches the MCP architecture and how to build servers with the Python SDK, exposing tools, resources, and prompts, then testing them with the MCP Inspector. For Python developers who want to connect Claude (or any MCP client) to their own data and services the standard way.
intermediate
Self-paced
Certificate
A 0-to-1 course that rebuilds a Claude Code-style coding agent one mechanism per lesson (tool use, permissions, hooks, planning, subagents, context compaction, memory, task systems, scheduling, agent teams, MCP plugins and a goal loop) with runnable Python and diagrams. It suits developers who use coding agents daily and want to understand, or build, the harness around the model.
intermediate
17 progressive lessons, self-paced
Hugging Face and Anthropic·Hugging Face
Free
Built by Hugging Face in partnership with Anthropic, it covers MCP architecture and core concepts, then an end-to-end use case and a deployed use case, plus bonus units, with tools such as Gradio. For developers who want a free, hands-on MCP course with free certificates to complement Anthropic's own MCP courses.
intermediate
4 units plus bonus; ~3-4 hours per week, about a week per unit
Certificate
A 13-module curriculum on MCP fundamentals, security, building servers and clients, VS Code integration, testing, deployment, and advanced topics like OAuth2 and scaling, with samples in C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Rust, and TypeScript. For developers in any language who want a thorough free grounding in MCP.
beginner
13 modules, self-paced
Anthropic·Anthropic Academy
Free
Goes beyond MCP basics into sampling, log and progress notifications, roots-based file access control, JSON message types, and the STDIO and StreamableHTTP transports, including state handling for production servers. For developers who finished Introduction to Model Context Protocol and now need to ship MCP servers and clients to production.
advanced
15 lectures, ~1 hour of video, 2 quizzes
Certificate