Anthropic · Topic 5 of 5
Agent Architecture and Orchestration
The heaviest exam domain (27%): the agentic loop and stop_reason flow control, coordinator–subagent (hub-and-spoke) systems, explicit context passing, lifecycle hooks vs prompt guidance for enforcement, task decomposition, and session resume/fork.
7 lessons175 questions
What this topic covers
- 01The Agentic Loop and stop_reason300m
- 02Coordinator–Subagent Orchestration360m
- 03Context Passing and Subagent Spawning300m
- 04Hooks and Programmatic Enforcement300m
- 05Task Decomposition Strategies300m
- 06Session Management: Resume and Fork240m
- 07Subagent Context Isolation in Coordinator–Subagent Systems300m