Agents and Workflows
14.7% of the published blueprint, which works out at about 7.8 items on a 53-item form. These are expected values across forms, not a promise about the form you sit.
3 published sub-domains, each separately weighted
Agent Construction with Claude
5.3% · 2.8 items2+ itemsMethods, tools, and platforms for constructing Claude agents, including the Claude Agent SDK, custom agent loops and harnesses, managed agent deployment models (self-hosted vs. Anthropic- hosted), and hooks for deterministic actions.
Agent Patterns and Frameworks
4.9% · 2.6 items2+ itemsCommon agent design patterns (tool-use loops, sub-agents, memory, context-window management) and agentic abstraction frameworks (e.g., Strands, LangGraph, PydanticAI) for building agents and workflows for multi-step tasks.
Agent Architecture
4.5% · 2.4 items2+ itemsPrinciples, patterns, and tradeoffs of agent and workflow architecture, including the decision criteria for using a workflow versus an agent, the structure of manager/supervisor hierarchies, and the role of subagents in improving task execution.
6 concept cards — tap one for the example, the instinct and the trap
Primary sources for this domain
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