Explore how to orchestrate Claude through common workflow patterns. Master strategies for decomposing complex tasks, routing work efficiently, and executing parallel operations using only prompt engineering and API call orchestration.
Overview
Syllabus
- Unit 1: Getting Started with Anthropic API
- Send Your First Message to Claude and Inspect the Full Response
- Extracting Key Fields from a Claude Response
- Maintaining Context with Multi-Turn Conversations
- Robust Text Extraction from Multi-Block Responses
- Enable Extended Thinking and Inspect Multi-Block Responses
- Unit 2: Breaking Down Tasks with Prompt Chaining
- Build the Summary Generation Step in a Prompt Chain
- Add Validation Guardrails to Your Prompt Chain
- Tighten the Summary Validation Guardrails
- Complete the Translation Step in a Prompt Chain
- Reviewing Translation Quality in a Prompt Chain
- Unit 3: Building Intelligent Task Routers
- Build the Router Prompt
- Mapping Router Decisions to Specialist Prompts
- Complete Step 3: Send the Request to the Chosen Specialist
- Add Extended Thinking to the Router
- Add a Science Specialist to the Router Workflow
- Unit 4: Speeding Up Workflows with Parallelization
- Convert a Blocking Claude Call to a Threaded Workflow
- Parallelize Independent Research Questions
- Parallel Research Aggregation into a Paris Travel Guide