What you will be able to do

Choose and justify an agent designWrite tool definitions Claude can use reliablyConfigure Claude Code for a shared repositoryDesign prompts, structured output and injection defencesChoose a context strategy and set approval and regression gates

About this course

Architecture foundations for building with Claude, taught in the five domains of the Claude Certified Architect, Foundations exam: agent design, tool design and MCP, Claude Code configuration, prompts and structured output, and context and reliability. It prepares you for the exam and does not replace the current Exam Guide.

Claude AI

Curriculum

7 modules · 17 lessons · 1.6h

Welcome5 min

Requirements

How to read Python or TypeScript, and JSON

What a call to a model API involves

How to run a command in a terminal

Claude Code, for the configuration lessons

Node.js 22 or later, to run the lab

jq, a command line JSON tool, for hook examples

Claude Code needs a Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise or Console account

The lab runs on a free Groq key (no card), or on Claude if you have API credit

Or run the lab with MOCK=1: no key, no network

What you walk away with

A Yallo AI academy certificate of completion, issued when every lesson is complete and the final assessment is passed at 70% or aboveA public verification page, so a stranger can check the certificate without asking you for a filePDF download, and a one-click share to your LinkedIn profile

Yallo AI academy certifies completion of

Claude Certified Architect Foundations Preparation

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