Four courses, taught by Anthropic, certified on Skilljar. Complete them and you're a Leerling in good standing — ready to pair with the Human Craft pillar as those courses come online.
These are the courses Anthropic itself uses to certify partners. Completing them earns you a recognized credential on Skilljar — and moves Gilde toward Claude Partner Network status as an institution. Every founding member who clears the path moves the guild forward.
The more AI you master, the more human you must be. That's the guild's rule.
The Human Craft pairings — Listening, Ethics of Automation, Systems Thinking, Mentoring a Junior — are in authoring now. They come online during the Founding Cohort year. No one earns Gezel rank from AI Craft alone.
The foundational discipline of prompting. What a Skill is, how it's structured, how to write one that holds up under repetition. Not 'tricks for talking to AI' — the apprentice's first encounter with the rigor of intent.
Pairs with Listening (Human Craft) once authored.
When Claude stops being a chat partner and becomes a component in a product. API calls, message handling, streaming, tool use, prompt caching. The moment Claude moves into production, ethics arrive too.
Pairs with Ethics of Automation (Human Craft) once authored.
Connecting Claude to existing systems. MCP server authoring, MCP client integration, tool discovery, security model. You'll ship a working MCP server as your proof.
Pairs with Systems Thinking (Human Craft) once authored.
What changes when you move from chat to actual software engineering with an agent. Working with Claude Code is, structurally, working with a fast and competent but not-yet-wise junior teammate.
Pairs with Mentoring a Junior (Human Craft) once authored.
Gilde opens to 100 founding members in Amsterdam, summer 2026. Waitlist now. We invite in waves.