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Domain 1: Agentic Architecture & Orchestration

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Domain 1: Agentic Architecture & Orchestration

Domain 1 is the biggest block on the exam, and nearly all of it reduces to one question: what is actually in control? The loop is controlled by stop_reason, not by reading the assistant's text. Ordering is controlled by a prerequisite gate, not by an instruction. A subagent's scope is controlled by the tools it was given, not by what it was told. Read every Domain 1 stem for the mechanism, and you will find that the distractors are almost always the version where a person is trusting the model to cooperate.

Domain 1 at a glance

Blueprint weight
27% of scored items
Task statements
7
Questions in this hive
66
Flashcards in this hive
48, one per published objective

What the guide measures here

  1. Design and implement agentic loops with proper termination conditions
  2. Orchestrate multi-agent systems with coordinator-subagent patterns
  3. Configure subagent invocation, context passing, and spawning
  4. Implement multi-step workflows with enforcement and handoff patterns
  5. Apply Agent SDK hooks for tool call interception and data normalization
  6. Design task decomposition strategies for complex workflows
  7. Manage session state, resumption, and forking

The order to learn them in

Working through Domain 1

  1. 1

    The agentic loop

    Start with the agentic loop. Everything else in the domain sits inside one, and the three termination anti-patterns are the most reliably examined facts here.

Where Domain 1 catches people

Stopping the loop on an iteration cap. A cap is a runaway backstop; the design is stop_reason. Assuming a subagent can see what the coordinator saw. Letting subagents talk to each other directly, which removes the observability that hub-and-spoke exists for. And decomposing so narrowly that every slice is complete and the cross-cutting question is owned by nobody.

The tell in a Domain 1 stem

When one option adds an instruction to a prompt and another changes what is structurally possible, the exam wants the structural one. Deterministic compliance — identity before a financial operation, a prerequisite before a refund — is never a prompt in this domain.

What is quoted, and what is argued

The weight and the 7 task statement titles above are quoted from the official CCAR-F exam guide v1.0. The thesis, sequence and traps are this hive's reading of that material — useful, and not the guide's own words. Asset counts are this hive's, read from the bank on 2026-08-29.

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