This page lists every external resource referenced across the learning path, both study guides, and the practical test. Use it as a single index when you want to revisit a source, share it with a colleague, or verify a citation.
Each entry includes the title, a short note on what you'll find, and the canonical URL. Anchor and section links to in-pack files are deliberately omitted — those live in the study materials themselves.
Documentation / article
Video explainer (YouTube search)
Local study material
Anthropic — Official Documentation (Claude API)
11 entriesdocs.claude.com/en/api/messages
Canonical reference for the Messages API: request structure, roles, response shapes, and the all-important
stop_reason field.docs.claude.com/en/docs/agents-and-tools/tool-use/overview
How Claude calls functions you define: tool definitions, the tool_use → tool_result round-trip, and tool_choice modes.
platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/tool-use
docs.claude.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/batch-processing
Async high-throughput jobs (custom_id, partial failure handling, 24-hour SLA).
platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/message-batches
docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/extended-thinking
Model reasoning capabilities — relevant to agentic decision-making.
platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/extended-thinking
docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-caching
How prompt caching reduces costs and latency for repeated context.
docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/overview
docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/system-prompts
docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/long-context-tips
Claude Code — CLI & agentic coding
11 entriescode.claude.com/docs/en/overview
Top-level entry point: what Claude Code is, install, basic CLI usage.
docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/agents-and-tools/claude-code/overview
code.claude.com/docs/en/memory
CLAUDE.md hierarchy, @path imports, and the .claude/rules directory.
code.claude.com/docs/en/skills
.claude/skills/ — reusable behavior bundles loaded via the Skill tool.
code.claude.com/docs/en/sub-agents
Spawning specialized subagents from within Claude Code.
code.claude.com/docs/en/hooks
Intercepting events around tool calls (PreToolUse, PostToolUse, Stop, etc.).
code.claude.com/docs/en/headless
Running Claude Code non-interactively for CI/CD and scripts.
code.claude.com/docs/en/github-actions
code.claude.com/docs/en/gitlab-ci-cd
code.claude.com/docs/en/mcp
docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code/mcp
Claude Agent SDK
5 entriesdocs.claude.com/en/api/agent-sdk/overview
Programmatic agent runtime — AgentDefinition, sessions, tool registration.
platform.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview
platform.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/subagents
platform.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/hooks
platform.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/sessions
Anthropic Engineering — long-form articles
2 entriesanthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents
Canonical post on agentic patterns: prompt chaining, routing, orchestrator-workers, evaluator-optimizer.
anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-best-practices
Anthropic Academy (Skilljar) — official free courses
8 entriesanthropic.skilljar.com/claude-101
anthropic.skilljar.com/claude-with-the-anthropic-api
anthropic.skilljar.com/claude-code-in-action
anthropic.skilljar.com/introduction-to-model-context-protocol
anthropic.skilljar.com/model-context-protocol-advanced-topics
anthropic.skilljar.com/introduction-to-subagents
anthropic.skilljar.com/introduction-to-agent-skills
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
7 entriesmodelcontextprotocol.io
modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction
modelcontextprotocol.io/quickstart/server
modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/concepts/tools
modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/concepts/servers
modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/concepts/resources
docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/agents-and-tools/mcp
GitHub repositories
4 entriesgithub.com/anthropics/anthropic-cookbook
Reference implementations and runnable notebooks across the API surface.
github.com/anthropics/anthropic-cookbook/tree/main/tool_use
github.com/anthropics/courses/.../prompt_engineering_interactive_tutorial
github.com/modelcontextprotocol
Reference servers, SDKs, specification — the official MCP source of truth.
Video explainers (YouTube searches)
14 entriesYouTube search — pick a recent ≤15 min explainer (3Blue1Brown, IBM Technology, etc.).
Suggested creators: pixegami, Shaw Talebi, Krish Naik (all 14–25 min).
Local study materials (this study pack)
5 entriesThe 30-page Anthropic exam guide — the source of truth for domain weights, scenarios, and sample questions.
Day-by-day roadmap with progress tracking.
13 foundational chapters mapped to the 5 exam domains, with anchored TOC.
Narrative preparation guide covering tool design, MCP, agentic patterns, and context management.