Anthropic has launched a one-hour free crash course on building AI agents using its Claude Opus 5.5 model. The tutorial, released in mid-October 2026, is available through the company's educational platform, Anthropic Academy.
The course is divided into four segments covering agent architecture, skill-building, and orchestration. It specifically addresses Claude Managed Agents and a concept referred to as agent dreaming, with timestamps provided for navigation.
Claude Opus 5.5 was released on September 22, 2026. The model is positioned as a cost-efficient alternative to its predecessor, Opus 5, offering a 40% reduction in costs on typical workloads.
The pricing for Opus 5.5 is set at $4 per million tokens, compared to $20 for the previous version. Anthropic also reported an 85% reduction in risky boundary circumvention attempts in behavioral audits.
The training initiative is part of a broader strategy to encourage developers to build projects on the Claude platform. In 2026, the Anthropic Academy hosts between 13 and 27 free courses on various AI topics.
