Anthropic · CCAR-F
Task decomposition and sessions
CCAR-F · Lesson 5 of 18 · 27:36
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In this lesson
Prepare for the Claude Certified Architect – Foundations exam, on the exam guide version 1.0, effective July 2026. In this lesson: prompt chaining with per-file and cross-file passes, adaptive decomposition for open-ended tasks, named sessions and the resume flag, telling a resumed session what changed, fork_session, and when to start fresh with a summary. Includes three original practice questions.
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- Kestrel’s single review pass over a fourteen-file pull request gives detailed notes on some files, misses an obvious bug, and contradicts itself between two files. What should change?
- A developer resumes yesterday’s session, after a teammate refactored three files that the agent had analyzed. What should the developer do first?
- The team wants to compare two testing strategies, both starting from the same codebase analysis, which took an hour. What fits best?