Building with Claude: A Practical Developer Guide to Models, APIs, Prompts, Tools, RAG, MCP, and Agents
Building with Claude: A Practical Developer Guide to Models, APIs, Prompts, Tools, RAG, MCP, and Agents Claude is not just a chatbot interface. It is a platform for building AI-powered applications: assistants, coding tools, document processors, data analysers, retrieval systems, workflow automations, and agents that can use external tools. This guide walks through the main concepts a developer needs to understand when building with Claude: how to choose a model, how API requests work, how to manage conversations, how to control outputs, how to evaluate prompts, how tool use works, how to build RAG systems, how MCP fits into the architecture, and when to use workflows versus agents. ...