Claude Code Configuration, Hooks, and CI

Domain 3 of the Claude Certified Architect Foundations blueprint: which CLAUDE.md files, rules, skills, and settings Claude Code loads and what overrides what, how hooks enforce in code, when to plan before executing, and how the same configuration behaves in a print-mode CI run.

3 sections ยท 10 lessons

Course outline

Instruction Loading

  1. Three Levels and a Local One
  2. Concatenation Is Not Precedence
  3. Imports Inline, Globs Scope
  4. Place Five Team Conventions

Commands, Skills, and Hooks

  1. Two File Shapes, One Command
  2. Arguments and Forked Context
  3. Pre-Approval Is Not Restriction
  4. Hooks Decide in Code
  5. Debug a Skill That Wrote Files

From Prompt to Pipeline

  1. Ambiguity, Not Difficulty
  2. Steering With Examples and Tests
  3. Print Mode and the JSON Envelope
  4. Wire a Headless PR Review

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