Claude Architect Lab

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Domain 1 established the lesson template the rest reuse, and was built and reviewed the slow way — one domain, studied first. Domains 2–5' lessons and practice questions are Claude-drafted at the owner's direction, pending a review pass; see the project's roadmap for exactly what that means per domain.

This is a sequence, not a gate: every domain is open, whether or not its content has been reviewed yet.

  1. Agentic Architecture & Orchestration

    27%

    Agent loops, agent vs. deterministic workflow, single- vs. multi-agent design, delegation and subagents, parallelization, human-in-the-loop, stopping conditions, and the reliability trade-offs each choice carries.

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  2. Tool Design & MCP Integration

    18%

    MCP clients and servers, tools vs. resources vs. prompts, tool schema design, permissions and boundaries, authentication, error handling, and designing safe MCP integrations.

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  3. Claude Code Configuration & Workflows

    20%

    CLAUDE.md and project instructions, permissions, hooks, commands and skills, MCP inside Claude Code, context management, and development workflows.

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  4. Prompt Engineering & Structured Output

    20%

    System and user prompts, few-shot examples, structured (XML/JSON/schema) prompting, tool-use prompting, validation and retries, and separating deterministic application logic from model reasoning.

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  5. Context Management & Reliability

    15%

    Context windows, context engineering, summarization and compaction, retrieval, caching, error handling and retries, observability, evaluations, and production reliability.

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