Updating the guide’s Markdown pages, running a local preview, working with the interactive quiz, installing dependencies, and deploying changes through GitHub Actions.

It gives a coding agent the project structure, development commands, deployment process, and manual checking requirements in one place.

How amitgambhir/claude-certified-architect-guide configures Claude Cod

Q: What is claude-certified-architect-guide CLAUDE.md?

A set of project instructions for maintaining a study guide for the Claude Certified Architect exam, built with MkDocs Material, a documentation website generator.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to amitgambhir/claude-certified-architect-guide. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/amitgambhir/claude-certified-architect-guide/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/amitgambhir/claude-certified-architect-guide

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 673 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 673 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
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Opus 5.5	$0.00269	$0.00269
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00135	$0.00135
Haiku 4.5	$0.00067	$0.00067

Measured 2mo ago against content hash ace7be8ef605, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-certified-architect-guide CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 48 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Project Overview

A study guide for the Claude Certified Architect exam, built with MkDocs Material. 16 markdown pages covering all 10 exam domains, interactive quiz, traps & gotchas, cheat sheet, and resources. Hosted on GitHub Pages at https://amitgambhir.github.io/claude-certified-architect-guide/.

Development

Local preview: source .venv/bin/activate && mkdocs serve → http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Install deps: uv venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate && uv pip install -r requirements.txt
No tests — manual browser verification only
Deployment — push to main branch; GitHub Actions builds and deploys to gh-pages branch

Architecture

MkDocs Material site with mkdocs.yml config at repo root
Content: 16 markdown files under docs/ — 10 domain pages in docs/domains/, plus overview, exam info, gotchas, quiz, cheat sheet, resources
Interactive quiz: docs/javascripts/quiz.js — 15 JS-driven questions with scoring and progress tracking. Loaded via extra_javascript in mkdocs.yml. Quiz data is a JS array of objects with q, opts, ans (0-indexed), and exp fields
Custom styles: docs/stylesheets/custom.css — wider content area, quiz component styles, dark mode overrides
Navigation: grouped sidebar with "Exam Domains" section containing all 10 domain pages; top-level tabs for overview, exam info, gotchas, quiz, cheat sheet, resources
Light/dark mode: built-in MkDocs Material palette toggle

Content Pages

Page	File
Overview	`docs/index.md`
Official Exam Info	`docs/exam-info.md`
Domains 1–10	`docs/domains/{messages-api,tool-design,error-handling,mcp,agent-skills,agent-sdk,agentic-patterns,workflow-design,prompt-engineering,context-management}.md`
Traps & Gotchas	`docs/gotchas.md`
Self-test Quiz	`docs/quiz.md` + `docs/javascripts/quiz.js`
Cheat Sheet	`docs/cheat-sheet.md`
Resources	`docs/resources.md`

Read the full file on GitHub · 48 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

2mo ago First seen · 48 lines · 673 tokens per session scan A ace7be8ef605

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claude-certified-architect-guide CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository amitgambhir/claude-certified-architect-guide (8 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 673 tokens to every session, about $0.0027 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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