Claude Agent SDK: Build Production AI Agents in Python

About this course

AI agents are how software gets built next. This course teaches you to build them — from scratch, in Python, using the Claude Agent SDK.The Claude Agent SDK is the same technology that powers Claude Code — Anthropic's AI coding assistant used by hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide. This course gives you programmatic access to that same engine, so you can build autonomous agents that read files, run commands, search the web, ask users questions, and complete complex multi-step tasks — without writing a single line of tool execution logic yourself.What You Will BuildBy the end of this course you will have built three complete agents from scratch:File Explorer Agent — autonomously explores a directory, reads every file, and produces a clean summary report. Your first complete autonomous agent.Codebase TODO Summarizer Agent — searches an entire codebase for TODO comments, filters results by priority based on your preferences, and produces a structured report. Uses Glob, Grep, Read, and AskUserQuestion working together.Safe Code Review Agent — the course capstone. Reviews code for quality issues and security vulnerabilities — hardcoded credentials, SQL injection, poor error handling — without being able to modify a single file. Three layers of production safety built in.What You Will LearnSection 1 — The Big Picture Understand exactly how the Claude Agent SDK works under the hood before writing a single line of code. The four components, the agent loop, pipe communication between the SDK and Claude Code, and session management. This mental model makes everything else in the course click.Section 2 — Your First Agent Everything runs in Google Colab — no local setup required. Write your first query() call, master async/await in Python, read and filter the agent message stream, and build your firs