Bounded Autonomy and Guardrails with Claude and Claude Code

Start here for a tour of the course: the prerequisites you'll need, the outcomes you'll reach, and the resources that support building safe, guardrailed agents.

Discover how to design multi-agent AI systems using orchestrators and subagents, apply sequential, parallel, and advanced orchestration patterns, and automate complex, multi-step tasks.

Learn to design and implement multi-agent systems using Claude Agent SDK where an orchestrator coordinates specialized subagents to automate and scale complex, multi-step business processes.

Assemble a multi-agent system that triages electronics-defect reports across four cumulative exercises: scoped subagent definitions, parallel spawn with scoped context, Pydantic-validated structured handoff, and a bounded iterative refinement loop. By the end you have a working CLI that runs against the real Anthropic API.

Wrap an Anthropic-SDK banking agent in a compliance enforcement layer across three cumulative exercises: a programmatic KYC prerequisite gate, a PostToolUse hook that normalizes heterogeneous tool output, and an interception hook that redirects over-threshold transfers with a structured handoff. A comparison harness proves deterministic hooks block 100% of violations where a strong prompt cannot.