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Claude Certified Developer – Foundations: Certification Overview and Developer Skills
Claude Certified Developer – Foundations validates a developer's foundational ability to design, integrate, operate, evaluate, optimize, and secure production-oriented applications, agents, and workflows built with Claude.
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Prompt Engineering for Reliable Claude Applications
A developer should structure a Claude prompt as a testable contract between application intent and model behavior.

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Context and Memory Management for Claude Applications and Agents
A Claude application should treat active context as a bounded, task-specific working set and durable memory as explicit application-owned state.

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Evaluating, Testing, and Debugging Claude Applications
When a Claude application fails, first preserve the failing case and identify the earliest boundary where observed evidence diverges from a defined success criterion.

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Securing Claude Applications with Guardrails, Hooks, and Secret Management
A team should secure a Claude application or agent through independent layers that assume another layer can fail.

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Implementing Claude Tools with Safe Execution and Approval Patterns
A developer should implement a Claude client tool as a narrow, application-controlled transaction.

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MCP Server Development and Choosing Between Tools, Skills, and MCP
A developer should build an MCP server as a focused, independently authorized capability boundary behind an MCP host and its per-server client.
