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Agent Design Patterns the Claude Architect Exam Tests

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The agent design patterns behind the Claude Certified Architect (CCAR-F) exam, as of October 2026, from Anthropic's exam guide v1.0 and Anthropic Engineering's 'Building effective agents'. Workflows vs agents, the agentic loop (stop_reason, three stopping anti-patterns), prompt chaining vs dynamic decomposition, hub-and-spoke coordinators and subagents (isolated context, parallel Task calls, iterative refinement), independent review instead of self-review, enforcement with gates and hooks, structured handoffs, the three escalation triggers, structured error propagation, provenance and human review, plus a pattern chooser and 3 original practice questions. Domains 1 and 5 make up 42% of the exam. Independent guide, not affiliated with Anthropic.

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Chapters
0:00 The Short Answer
1:03 Workflows and Agents
1:57 The Agentic Loop
2:42 Chaining or Dynamic Decomposition
3:34 Hub and Spoke
4:42 Parallelism and Independent Review
5:34 Enforcement
6:23 Escalation
7:12 Errors That Travel
7:52 Provenance and Human Review
8:38 Choose the Pattern
9:13 Practice Questions
10:40 Recap

Exam facts are from the official Anthropic (Claude Certification Program, Anthropic Engineering) pages as of 2026-10-27. Fees and rules can change, so confirm on the official site before you enroll. Open Exam Hub is an independent study resource, not affiliated with Anthropic. Practice questions are not from a real exam. Narration is an AI-generated voice.

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