Anthropic · CCAR-P
System prompts, templates, and techniques
CCAR-P · Lesson 5 of 18 · 34:38
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Prepare for the Claude Certified Architect – Professional exam, on the exam guide version 1.0, effective July 2026. In this lesson: system prompts with roles and reasoned rules, versioned templates with XML tags and variables, guardrails in the prompt, zero-shot, few-shot, and chain-of-thought prompting, adaptive thinking, and why prefilled answers give way to instructions and structured outputs. Includes three original practice questions.
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- Harborline’s assistant sometimes tells customers their claim will be paid, before any adjuster has decided. Where should the fix start?
- Harborline’s claim summaries must follow a house format, but the model drifts from it on unusual claims. Which technique helps most?
- A coverage decision requires reasoning over several policy clauses, and the errors come from skipped steps. Thinking is turned off, to save latency. What should the architect try?