Anthropic · CCAR-F
Prerequisite gates, hooks, and handoffs
CCAR-F · Lesson 4 of 18 · 21:27
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Prepare for the Claude Certified Architect – Foundations exam, on the exam guide version 1.0, effective July 2026. In this lesson: prompt-based guidance versus programmatic enforcement, prerequisite gates that block tools like process_refund, PreToolUse and PostToolUse hooks in the Agent SDK, data normalization, multi-concern requests, and structured handoffs to human agents. Includes three original practice questions.
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- In two percent of conversations, Kestrel’s agent calls process_refund before verifying the customer, and some refunds reach the wrong account. What is the most effective fix?
- Kestrel’s policy forbids refunds above five hundred dollars without a manager, and the agent still issued a few. Which design guarantees the policy?
- The agent escalates a billing dispute to a human team, who can’t see the conversation. What should the escalation include?