Claude Code Architect Certification — Practice Repository

This repository contains hands-on practice notebooks and exercises completed as part of studying for the Claude Code Architect Certification by Anthropic.

What's Inside

Notebook	Topic
001_requests.ipynb	Basic API requests with the Anthropic SDK
001_prompting.ipynb	Prompt engineering fundamentals
001_prompting_practice.ipynb	Prompting exercises and experiments
001_prompting_exercise.ipynb	Advanced prompting challenges
001_prompt_evals.ipynb	Building prompt evaluation pipelines
001_prompt_evals_fns.ipynb	Evaluation functions and graders
001_prompt_evals_grader.ipynb	Automated grading with Claude
001_prompt_evals_complete.ipynb	End-to-end eval workflow
001_tools.ipynb	Tool use and function calling basics
001_tools_practice.ipynb	Tool use exercises
001_tools_007.ipynb	Advanced tool patterns
001_tools_008.ipynb	Multi-tool orchestration
001_tools_009.ipynb	Complex tool chaining
001_tools_007_practice.ipynb	Tool practice challenges
001_thinking.ipynb	Extended thinking / chain-of-thought
001_thinking_complete.ipynb	Extended thinking complete examples
001_chunking.ipynb	Text chunking strategies for RAG
002_embeddings.ipynb	Embeddings with VoyageAI
002_images.ipynb	Vision / multimodal input with Claude
003_tool_streaming.ipynb	Streaming tool use responses
003_vectordb.ipynb	Vector database integration (ChromaDB)
004_bm25.ipynb	BM25 keyword search
005_hybrid.ipynb	Hybrid search (BM25 + vector)
005_text_editor_tool.ipynb	Claude's built-in text editor tool
006_web_search.ipynb	Web search tool integration

Learning Path

Basics → Prompting → Tool Use → Extended Thinking
                                      ↓
                     Embeddings → Vector DB → RAG (Hybrid Search)
                                      ↓
                             Streaming & Advanced Tools

Tech Stack

• Anthropic SDK (Python) — Claude 3.x / Claude 4.x models
• VoyageAI — Embeddings
• ChromaDB — Vector store
• Jupyter Notebooks — Interactive exploration

Setup

pip install anthropic voyageai chromadb rank_bm25 jupyter

Copy .env.example to .env and add your API keys:

ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your_key_here
VOYAGE_API_KEY=your_key_here

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Practice repository — Claude Code Architect Certification, 2025–2026