{"slug": "leanpub-book-launch-architect-the-agent-the-ccar-f-certification-guide-by-thomas", "title": "Leanpub Book LAUNCH 🚀 Architect the Agent: The CCAR-F Certification Guide by Thomas De Vos", "summary": "Thomas De Vos, Global Financial Services AI Lead at HCLTech AI Labs, has launched 'Architect the Agent: The CCAR-F Certification Guide' on Leanpub, a study guide for the Claude Certified Architect Foundations (CCAR-F) exam. The book covers all five exam domains, includes two full practice exams with answer keys, and is reconciled against Anthropic's official exam guide, though it is independent and not endorsed by Anthropic.", "body_md": "[Book Launch](https://leanpub.com/blog/tag/book-launch/)\n\n# Leanpub Book LAUNCH 🚀 Architect the Agent: The CCAR-F Certification Guide by Thomas De Vos\n\nThe Claude Certified Architect Foundations (CCAR-F) exam tests whether you can make the right architectural call under pressure, not whether you can recite definitions. This guide is built for exactly that. It covers all five exam domains, agentic architecture, tool design and MCP, Clau...\n\nWelcome to the Leanpub Launch video for [Architect the Agent: The CCAR-F Certification Guide](https://leanpub.com/claude-certified-architect?ref=leanpub.com) by Thomas De Vos!\n\n# About the Book\n\nThe **Claude Certified Architect Foundations** (**CCAR-F**) exam tests whether you can make the right architectural call under pressure, not whether you can recite definitions. This guide is built for exactly that.\n\nIt covers all five exam domains, agentic architecture, tool design and MCP, Claude Code, prompt engineering, and context management, and teaches each one the way the exam asks about it: through realistic scenarios with plausible wrong answers.\n\nEvery chapter opens with a failure worth understanding, builds the theory behind it, and closes with a hands-on build and a scenario quiz. A recurring \"Why the Other Answer Fails\" section trains the one skill the exam really rewards, seeing which architectural principle a tempting distractor quietly breaks.\n\nInside you get **two full practice exams** with a complete answer key, an appendix that explains the reasoning behind every question, a domain-by-domain glossary and flashcards, and clean original figures for the ideas that are easier to see than to read.\n\nWritten by Thomas De Vos, an AI lead Architect at HCLTech AI Labs, the book is reconciled against Anthropic's official exam guide, so you study what is actually tested and skip what is not. It is an independent study guide and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.\n\n# About the Author\n\nThomas De Vos builds AI agents for banks, which mostly means finding out where they break before a regulator does.\n\nHe is the Global Financial Services AI Lead at HCLTech AI Labs, a role he took on this year, and also heads AI Engineering for EMEA.\n\nBefore that he spent eleven years in financial services technology, working on fraud analytics and machine learning systems that had to keep running whether or not anyone was watching. He comes from a software engineering background, which is where he picked up most of the habits that still matter: read the failure log, write the test, do not trust anything you have not seen run.\n\n`A demo proves the model can do it once. Production is the argument that it will do it a thousand times, and that you can prove which time it didn't.`\n\nHe writes the books he wanted to read when he started putting agents into production. They cover Claude Code, agent security, and the Anthropic certification path, and they all carry the same bias: a demo is not a system, and the boring parts (permissions, evals, audit trails, cost) decide whether anything survives contact with a real bank.\n\nHe is Belgian, lives in the UK, and holds unreasonably strong opinions about checklists.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/leanpub-book-launch-architect-the-agent-the-ccar-f-certification-guide-by-thomas", "canonical_source": "https://leanpub.com/blog/leanpub-book-launch-architect-the-agent-the-ccar-f-certification-guide-by-thomas-de-vos/", "published_at": "2026-07-31 02:19:41+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-31 02:34:53.228673+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents"], "entities": ["Thomas De Vos", "HCLTech AI Labs", "Leanpub", "Anthropic", "Claude Certified Architect Foundations (CCAR-F)"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/leanpub-book-launch-architect-the-agent-the-ccar-f-certification-guide-by-thomas", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/leanpub-book-launch-architect-the-agent-the-ccar-f-certification-guide-by-thomas.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/leanpub-book-launch-architect-the-agent-the-ccar-f-certification-guide-by-thomas.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/leanpub-book-launch-architect-the-agent-the-ccar-f-certification-guide-by-thomas.jsonld"}}