AI-901 Cert Buddy v0.3.0
A native Claude Code study companion for Exam AI-901 (Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals), grounded 100 percent in Microsoft Learn.
Highlights
- Installable plugin. Run
/plugin marketplace add timothywarner-org/ai901-cert-buddy-claude, then/plugin install ai901-cert-buddy. The attached zip is the plugin package if you prefer a local install. - Custom MCP server (FastMCP). Tools (
score_answer,validate_item,next_question,grade_lab), resources (certbuddy://domains,certbuddy://progress,certbuddy://bank/{domain}), and prompts (quiz,exam), plus an optionalgenerate_itemthat uses the Anthropic Python SDK. - Gradable labs.
/labemitslabs/<slug>/lab.mdplus a canonicalanswer-key.json. Record results insubmission.jsonand run/grade <slug>, which scores it through thegrade_labtool. - Pick-list slash commands.
/quiz,/lab,/plan,/explain, and/gradeshow plain-English options so a beginner never has to guess a Bloom level or domain. - Turnkey Microsoft Learn MCP that travels with the repo for both Claude Code (
.mcp.json) and VS Code (.vscode/mcp.json). - Four deterministic hook guardrails and a Cert Coach output style.
Setup
Run pip install -r mcp-server/requirements.txt once so the local cert-buddy server can start. See TUTORIAL.md for a fifteen-minute walkthrough.
Security
This release hardens the CI workflow: least-privilege permissions and a commit-pinned third-party action, resolving the open CodeQL alerts.