Claude Certified Architect
Agentic loops, coordinator-subagent designs, tool interfaces and reliability patterns for Claude.
7concepts
34flashcards
62minutes of reading
- 01 Agentic Loops and stop_reason Handling The agentic loop lifecycle - sending requests, inspecting stop_reason, executing tools, and appending results. The foundation of every autonomous Claude agent.
- 02 CLAUDE.md Configuration and Claude Code Workflows CLAUDE.md hierarchy, .claude/rules/ with glob patterns, custom commands and skills, plan mode vs direct execution, and CI/CD integration.
- 03 Programmatic Enforcement vs Prompt-Based Guidance When to use hooks and programmatic prerequisites for guaranteed compliance versus system prompt instructions for probabilistic guidance.
- 04 Prompt Engineering and Structured Output Patterns Explicit criteria, few-shot prompting, tool_use with JSON schemas, validation-retry loops, and the Message Batches API.
- 05 Tool Interface Design and MCP Integration Writing effective tool descriptions, structured error responses, MCP server scoping, and the distinction between MCP tools and resources.
- 06 Context Management and Reliability Patterns Context preservation across long interactions, escalation decision-making, error propagation in multi-agent systems, and information provenance.
- 07 Multi-Agent Coordinator-Subagent Architecture Hub-and-spoke multi-agent design with coordinator delegation, isolated subagent context, parallel execution, and iterative refinement loops.