Claude agentic architecture and orchestration
Agents that use tools and delegate work sit within an exam area worth about 27% of scored questions.
An agent is a loopAn agent is a loop. You send a prompt, Claude decides what to do, and it can call your tools.PromptYour prompt joins the system prompt and the tool definitions in the context window.tool_useFor a client tool, Claude returns stop_reason "tool_use" and a tool_use block with an id, the tool's name, and its input.
Lessons in this chapter
8 lessons, about 5 minutes each · 27% of the exam
- The Claude tool-use loop Lesson 1 · free
- Coordinators and subagents
- Give subagents the full context
- Run subagents in parallel
- Hooks enforce rules prompts can’t
- Handoffs a human can act on
- Chain prompts or plan adaptively
- Resume, fork, or start fresh
Built on Claude Certified Architect – Foundations (CCAR-F) Exam Guide · 1.0, effective July 2026 · Agentic Architecture & Orchestration
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