Passed the Anthropic Claude Certified Architect – Foundations exam. 🥳
This is Anthropic's first-ever technical certification.
A proctored, scenario-based exam currently only available to Anthropic partners through the Claude Partner Network.
A 120-minute exam focused on practical AI engineering scenarios from agent orchestration and MCP tooling to Claude Code workflows and structured outputs.
They drop you into real scenarios designing multi-agent systems, writing MCP tool interfaces, building data extraction pipelines, integrating Claude Code into CI/CD workflows, making escalation decisions for customer support agents.
The exam covers five domains, Agentic Architecture & Orchestration, Tool Design & MCP Integration, Claude Code Configuration & Workflows, Prompt Engineering & Structured Output, and Context Management & Reliability.
You need to know how to make Claude deterministic through programmatic hooks and enforcement. How to configure CLAUDE.md hierarchies, custom skills, and rules. How to architect agents that actually work in production, not just demos.
Why this matters to me:
I've been using Claude Code and the Anthropic API as core tools in my workflow not for chatbots or basic RAG pipelines, but for designing agentic systems, automating workflows, and making architecture decisions.
This certification validated what I've been building toward, the ability to architect AI-native applications, not just use AI as a fancy autocomplete.
8 certifications now. 7 AWS. 1 Anthropic.
The construction worker who used to sleep in his car between 16-hour shifts now designs cloud architectures and builds AI-powered systems.
Still doesn't feel real sometimes.
But the certificate says otherwise.
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