Steal My Claude Learning Stack - 50 Free Resources
5 modules: Code, Cowork, Prompting, Skills, MCP. Every course, doc and repo linked inside.
Every week, someone asks me the same question.
âAniket, where did you learn all this?â
Fair question. I write Claude tutorials near-daily. The workflows, the skills, the automations. They come from somewhere.
Hereâs the honest answer: not from courses that cost $500. Not from threads that recycle each other. From a small set of sources Iâve collected over years of testing. Official courses most people donât even know are free. A handful of YouTubers who actually run things before talking about them. The GitHub repos where the real work happens quietly.
The problem was never that this knowledge is hidden. Itâs that itâs scattered across fifty tabs, and nobody tells you which ones matter or what order to open them in.
So I fixed that.
This is my entire Claude learning library. 50 resources, organized into 5 modules: Claude Code, Cowork, Prompting, Skills, MCP. All in the order Iâd actually learn them. Plus a few of my own editions where Iâve already done the testing, so you can skip the failed experiments I didnât.
Bookmark this one. Itâs the edition youâll keep coming back to.
Letâs get into it.
Whatâs Included
Module 1, Claude Code: 9 resources, from full free courses to hooks and subagents
Module 2, Cowork & Design: 8 resources for the no-code side of Claude
Module 3, Prompting & Workflows: 8 resources that fix how you talk to Claude
Module 4, Skills: 13 resources. The deepest module, because Skills deserve it
Module 5, MCP & Integrations: 12 resources, from âwhat is MCPâ to building your own servers
đĄ If 50 feels like a lot: start with #2, #17, #22, #26, and #41. One per module. Thatâs your first week, sorted.
Module 1: Claude Code
This is where Claude stops being a chatbot and becomes a tool that ships things. If youâve been avoiding it because it lives in a terminal, this module is designed to get you past that in an afternoon.
1. Claude Code Full Course: Build & Sell ¡ Nick Saraev
A complete free course that treats Claude Code as a business skill, not just a dev toy.
2. Master 95% of Claude Code in 36 Min ¡ Nate Herk
The fastest honest on-ramp Iâve found. Watch this one first.
3. Claude Code in Action ¡ Anthropic (official)
Anthropicâs own free course. Slower than Nateâs video, more complete.
https://anthropic.skilljar.com/claude-code-in-action
4. Claude Code Overview ¡ Anthropic docs
The official starting page. Bookmark it, youâll come back more than you expect.
https://code.claude.com/docs/en/overview
5. Best Practices for Claude Code ¡ Anthropic docs
Where most âClaude Code isnât working for meâ problems quietly get solved.
https://code.claude.com/docs/en/best-practices
6. Create Custom Subagents ¡ Anthropic docs
One agent is useful. A team of agents you designed is something else entirely.
https://code.claude.com/docs/en/sub-agents
7. CLAUDE.md & Memory ¡ Anthropic docs
How to stop re-explaining your project every session.
https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory
8. awesome-claude-code ¡ hesreallyhim
The communityâs collected everything-list for Claude Code.
https://github.com/hesreallyhim/awesome-claude-code
9. Claude Code Hooks Mastery ¡ disler
Hooks are the difference between using Claude Code and running it. This repo teaches the running part.
https://github.com/disler/claude-code-hooks-mastery
â ď¸ The awesome-lists (#8, and later #36, #37, #43) are rabbit holes. Pick one thing, use it for a week, then come back. Collecting tools is not the same as learning them.
Module 2: Cowork & Design
The no-code side. No terminal, no setup anxiety. You describe the outcome, Claude does the work on your actual computer.
10. I Automated 99% of My Life With Cowork ¡ Grow With AI
My edition. Iâm biased, but this is the one readers still email me about.
11. Claude Design Did This in 10 Minutes ¡ Grow With AI
I built a professional website in one sitting and documented every step.
12. Claude Cowork: Full Course for Beginners ¡ Tech With Tim
The most thorough free Cowork walkthrough on YouTube right now.
13. Claude Design = Easy Websites ¡ Kyle Skelly
Short, practical, zero fluff.
14. Claude Just Got Another Superpower ¡ Fireship
Five minutes of context on why this feature matters. Classic Fireship.
15. Introducing Claude Design ¡ Anthropic (official)
The announcement, straight from the source.
https://anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labs
16. Get Started With Claude Design ¡ Anthropic support
The official setup doc. Do this alongside #13.
https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14604416-get-started-with-claude-design
17. Introduction to Claude Cowork ¡ Anthropic (official course)
Free, structured, and the right first step if you skipped everything above.
https://anthropic.skilljar.com/introduction-to-claude-cowork
Module 3: Prompting & Workflows
Better prompts help you once. Better workflows change how you work permanently. This module covers both.
18. Youâre Prompting Claude Fable 5 Wrong ¡ Grow With AI
The mistakes I kept seeing, and making, after the model updated.
19. The Right Way to Set Up Claude Projects ¡ Grow With AI
Projects are quietly one of Claudeâs best features. Most people set them up wrong.
20. I Rebuilt Karpathyâs Loop Into a Skill ¡ Grow With AI
Where prompting stops and systems begin.
21. Prompt Engineering Overview ¡ Anthropic docs
The official reference. Dense, but itâs the actual source everyone else paraphrases.
https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/overview
22. Prompt Engineering Interactive Tutorial ¡ Anthropic (official)
Hands-on exercises instead of theory. The single best free prompting resource that exists.
https://github.com/anthropics/prompt-eng-interactive-tutorial
23. Building Effective AI Agents ¡ Anthropic research
The essay the whole agents conversation keeps quoting. Read the original.
https://anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents
24. Effective Context Engineering ¡ Anthropic engineering
Context is the new prompting. This is where that idea comes from.
https://anthropic.com/engineering/effective-context-engineering-for-ai-agents
25. Anthropic Academy ¡ Anthropic (official)
All the free courses in one place. Several from this bundle live here.
https://anthropic.skilljar.com
Module 4: Skills
The deepest module here, on purpose. Skills are the biggest shift in how I work with Claude. A prompt helps you once, a skill works forever.
26. Complete Claude Skills Guide + 40 Templates ¡ Grow With AI
My full guide, with 40 templates included. If you read one thing in this module, read this.
27. 12 Claude Skills I Cannot Live Without ¡ Grow With AI
The dozen that survived months of daily use.
28. I Work 10x Better With These 3 Skills ¡ Grow With AI
If 12 is too many: these three.
29. Superpowers ¡ obra
One of the most respected community skill collections on GitHub.
https://github.com/obra/superpowers
30. Agent Skills (official repo) ¡ Anthropic
Anthropicâs own skills, in the open. Study how theyâre structured.
https://github.com/anthropics/skills
31. Introducing Agent Skills ¡ Anthropic (official)
The announcement that started it.
https://claude.com/blog/skills
32. Equipping Agents With Agent Skills ¡ Anthropic engineering
The deeper engineering write-up: how skills actually work under the hood.
https://anthropic.com/engineering/equipping-agents-for-the-real-world-with-agent-skills
33. Extend Claude With Skills ¡ Anthropic docs
The practical doc for building your own.
https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills
34. Introduction to Agent Skills ¡ Anthropic (official course)
The structured free course version.
https://anthropic.skilljar.com/introduction-to-agent-skills
36. awesome-claude-skills ¡ travisvn
Community collection, actively maintained.
https://github.com/travisvn/awesome-claude-skills
37. awesome-claude-skills ¡ karanb192
A second collection with a different curation taste. Worth having both.
https://github.com/karanb192/awesome-claude-skills
38. skills.sh ¡ Community
A browsable directory of installable skills.
https://skills.sh
Module 5: MCP & Integrations
MCP is how Claude connects to everything else: your tools, your data, other services. It sounds technical. The first three links prove it isnât.
39. Claude + NotebookLM = God Mode ¡ Grow With AI
My most-shared integration edition. Two tools, one workflow.
40. MCP Servers (official repo) ¡ Model Context Protocol
The official server collection.
https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers
41. What Is MCP? ¡ Model Context Protocol
Start here. Ten minutes, and the whole acronym stops being scary.
https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction
42. Connect Claude Code via MCP ¡ Anthropic docs
The practical connection guide.
https://code.claude.com/docs/en/mcp
43. awesome-mcp-servers ¡ punkpeye
The biggest community MCP list.
https://github.com/punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers
44. MCP Registry ¡ Model Context Protocol
The official registry of what exists.
https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry
45. MCP.so ¡ Community
A searchable directory when GitHub feels like too much.
https://mcp.so
46. Smithery ¡ Community
Another directory. Cleaner interface, good for browsing.
https://smithery.ai
47. Glama MCP Servers ¡ Glama
A third option. Between #45, #46 and #47, one will match how your brain likes to search.
48. Build & Deploy Skills and MCP Servers ¡ Code With Antonio
The free build-it-yourself deep dive.
49. Introduction to MCP ¡ Anthropic (official course)
The structured course version of #41.
https://anthropic.skilljar.com/introduction-to-model-context-protocol
50. Building With the Claude API ¡ Anthropic (official course)
The final door. Once youâre here, youâre not learning Claude anymore. Youâre building with it.
https://anthropic.skilljar.com/claude-with-the-anthropic-api
How to actually use this
Not all at once. Thatâs the mistake.
Pick the module closest to what youâre doing this week. Do its first two resources. Ship one small thing with what you learned. Then come back.
The order Iâd go, starting from zero:
Module 3 â Module 2 â Module 4 â Module 1 â Module 5.
Prompting first, because it upgrades everything after it.
đĄ Save this edition. Itâs designed to be the tab you keep coming back to.
50 resources. 5 modules.
If this was useful, forward it to one person whoâs still using Claude like a basic chatbot. Thatâs the whole ask.
See you in the next one.
Aniket,
Grow With AI
Wow this is awesome. Thank you for such a wonderful guide for all the resources.
Thank you so much for these wonderful resources. I intend on using them as I learn Claude! I am really having a hard time being a one person business (founder) trying to keep up to date with all the automations and workflows....your knowledge and resources will help me achieve my goals....and again, thank you, and may God bless....