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Claude Foundations

Twelve hands-on modules covering the Claude platform end to end, from environment setup and agentic loops through MCP, governance, reliability, and the final orchestrator project.

Claude Advanced Labs - Agents

A deeper agent-building track with setup, advanced modules, self-driven Jupyter labs, answer keys, and the Enterprise Prospecting & Outreach Orchestrator capstone.

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Claude Architect Practice Exam

Randomized question sets across all five domains with score breakdowns, weak-topic detection, and a NotebookLM study prompt for targeted review.

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Claude API Development and Integration Guide

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Claude Foundations

Foundations modules

Each module builds on the last, aligned to the five domains of the Claude Certified Architect – Foundations exam. By the end you'll have working agent, MCP, and Claude Code patterns for every task the exam tests.

Dev Environment & Foundations

Install VS Code, set up Jupyter notebooks, and connect the Anthropic Python SDK to verify your environment before Module 2.

Agentic Loops & SDK Foundations

Master the Messages API stateless design (including how tool_result blocks re-enter history), set up the Agent SDK, manage sessions with resume and fork, and control conversation flow with the agentic loop stop_reason pattern.

Tool Design & Tool Choice Strategy

Write disambiguating tool descriptions to prevent misrouting, force prerequisite calls with tool_choice, and enforce strict JSON schemas on tool inputs.

Multi-Agent Orchestration (Agent SDK)

Build a hub-and-spoke coordinator with the Agent SDK Task tool, spawn subagents in parallel, and pass context explicitly across their isolated histories.

Scaling & Batch Constraints

Contrast synchronous loops with async batches, internalize the no-multi-turn-tools constraint, and resubmit only failed records by custom_id at a 50% discount.

Claude Code & Skills

Explore large codebases with Grep and Glob, use deterministic Edit fallbacks, compare fixes with forked sessions, and govern repository standards with CLAUDE.md and path-scoped rules.