Claude Agent Loops and Orchestration

Domain 1 of the Claude Certified Architect exam blueprint: agentic loop control, hub-and-spoke coordination, subagent context passing, deterministic workflow enforcement, Agent SDK hooks, task decomposition, and session resumption for practitioners building on Claude.

4 sections ยท 11 lessons

Course outline

Loop Control

  1. The Four-Step Agent Loop
  2. Reading stop_reason, Not Text
  3. Diagnosing an Agent That Stops Early

Orchestration Shapes

  1. Workflows Versus Agents
  2. The Coordinator at the Hub
  3. Subagents Inherit Nothing

Wiring and Enforcement

  1. The Subagent Spawn Gate
  2. Passing Findings With Metadata
  3. Guidance Versus Gates
  4. Hooks Before and After
  5. Prompt, Gate, or Hook

Decomposition and Continuity

  1. Fixed Pipelines Versus Adaptive Plans
  2. Resume, Fork, or Start Fresh
  3. Restarting a Stale Investigation

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