CCA-F: Claude Certified Architect — Foundations

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QuestionQ132

Context Management & Reliability

You are creating developer-productivity tools with the Claude Agent SDK. The agent assists engineers in exploring unfamiliar codebases, understanding legacy systems, generating boilerplate code, and automating repetitive work. It uses the built-in tools (Read, Write, Bash, Grep, Glob) and connects with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.

An engineer who has just joined the team asks the agent to help them understand the authentication and authorization architecture before making security improvements. The codebase contains 800+ files across multiple services.

Which exploration strategy will most effectively build understanding, considering Claude built-in tools and context limits?

Explanation

Authentication architecture is best understood by locating the real authentication entry points with targeted search, reading those implementations, and tracing their imports and function calls through the system. This incrementally follows the executable authentication flow while limiting irrelevant file content and preserving context for the relationships that matter. Anthropic’s SDK documentation supports programmatic use of the available tools, including file-reading and search-oriented workflows.

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