The Claude Vault Course 🎓

A complete, self-paced course that takes you from "what is Claude?" to passing the Claude Certified Architect — Foundations (CCA-F) exam.

It is built to mirror every course Anthropic has released on Anthropic Academy — Claude 101, AI Fluency, Building with the Claude API, Claude Code, MCP, Agent Skills, Subagents, Cowork, and the cloud deployment tracks — and it re-teaches each one as hyperframe video lessons you can read like a storyboard, then locks in each concept with a starter project.

What is a "hyperframe"? A frame-by-frame written storyboard of a video lesson. Each frame is one idea you could pause a video on — a scene, a concept, a visual, and a checkpoint. Read how-to-use-hyperframes first. You watch the official Anthropic video, then read the matching hyperframes here to cement it.

How this course is organized

course/
  README.md                  ← you are here
  catalog.md                 the full inventory of mirrored Anthropic courses + status
  how-to-use-hyperframes.md  what a hyperframe lesson is and how to study one

  prerequisites/             two on-ramps for absolute beginners
    track-0a-non-technical.md     for people who aren't technical
    track-0b-never-used-claude.md for people who've never opened Claude
    setup-checklist.md            accounts, installs, keys — do this once

  tracks/                    sequenced learning paths (the "syllabus")
    README.md
    track-1-claude-foundations.md
    track-2-effective-prompting.md
    track-3-building-with-the-api.md
    track-4-claude-code.md
    track-5-mcp-and-tools.md
    track-6-agents-skills-subagents.md
    track-7-deployment-and-scale.md
    track-8-certification-cca-f.md

  courses/                   one hyperframe mirror per Anthropic course
  projects/                  one starter project per concept (the "labs")
  prompts/                   system prompts: tutor, tracker, quiz, exam coach
  tracking/                  progress checklist, cert roadmap, learning journal

Where do I start?

1. Never used Claude, or not technical? Start at track-0a-non-technical or track-0b-never-used-claude.
2. Done that (or already comfortable)? Follow the learning tracks in order, Track 1 → Track 8.
3. Every day: open your progress checklist, do one course's hyperframes + its project, then journal it in learning-journal-template.
4. Want a study partner? Paste a tutor system prompt into claude.ai or Claude Code and learn with Claude itself.

The promise

• Every Anthropic Claude course is mirrored here (see catalog for the live checklist).
• Every concept has a project that forces you to use it, not just read it.
• Two beginner on-ramps so nobody is left behind.
• A tracking system + tutor prompts so you always know what's next and never study alone.
• A direct line to the CCA-F certification via track-8-certification-cca-f and the existing cca-f-exam-overview domain notes.

See also

• catalog — the mirror checklist
• how-to-use-hyperframes — the study method
• README — all eight learning tracks
• index — the full vault index (101/201/301 reference notes that back these lessons)