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Claude Certified Architect Foundations — AI skill for Claude Code

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Validates that you can scope and design Claude-based solutions: selecting the right model and deployment platform, framing agentic versus single-shot architectures, and accounting for evaluation, cost.

How to install Claude Certified Architect Foundations

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open t12i-dev/Claude-Certified-Architect-Foundations and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Claude Certified Architect Foundations does

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README

Claude Certified Architect – Foundations (CCAR-F) Prep

Hands-on exercises and notes while preparing for Anthropic's [Claude Certified Architect – Foundations](https://anthropic-partners.skilljar.com/claude-certified-architect-foundations-certification) certification.

Courses

Building with the Claude API — building-with-the-claude-api/
Claude Code in Action — claude-code-in-action/
Introduction to Model Context Protocol — intro-to-mcp/

Structure

Each course gets its own folder. Inside, scripts are numbered in the order the lessons introduce them, prefixed with the lesson topic:

building-with-the-claude-api/
├── venv/                          # not committed
├── .env                           # not committed — holds ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
├── .gitignore
├── 01_making_a_request.py
├── 02_multi_turn_conversations.py
├── 03_system_prompts.py
└── ...

Setup

Each course folder has its own virtual environment.

cd building-with-the-claude-api
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate        # Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Create a `.env` file in the same folder (never committed):

ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...

Run any exercise:

python 01_making_a_request.py

Notes

Quick takeaways from each lesson go in `NOTES.md` inside the relevant course folder — mainly things that aren't obvious from the course video alone (edge cases, gotchas, how a concept maps to the exam guide's task statements).

Exam reference

Exam Guide (PDF)
Domains: Agentic Architecture & Orchestration · Claude Code Config & Workflows · Prompt Engineering & Structured Output · Tool Design & MCP · Context Management & Reliability