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Domain 3: Claude Code Configuration & Workflows

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Domain 3: Claude Code Configuration & Workflows

Domain 3 is the one that names exact paths and flags, and it expects you to know them: ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md against .claude/CLAUDE.md, .claude/commands/ against ~/.claude/commands/, .claude/rules/ with a paths field, -p, --output-format json, --json-schema, /memory, /compact. Underneath the paths sits one repeated question: who is this configuration for, and when should it load? Almost every diagnosis in this domain is scope — something is in the user-level file that should have been project-level, or loaded always when it should have loaded conditionally.

Domain 3 at a glance

Blueprint weight
20% of scored items
Task statements
6
Questions in this hive
50
Flashcards in this hive
49, one per published objective

What the guide measures here

  1. Configure CLAUDE.md files with appropriate hierarchy, scoping, and modular organization
  2. Create and configure custom slash commands and skills
  3. Apply path-specific rules for conditional convention loading
  4. Determine when to use plan mode vs direct execution
  5. Apply iterative refinement techniques for progressive improvement
  6. Integrate Claude Code into CI/CD pipelines

The order to learn them in

Working through Domain 3

  1. 1

    The CLAUDE.md hierarchy

    Learn the CLAUDE.md hierarchy cold, including which level reaches teammates through version control. The classic stem is a new team member who is not getting the instructions.

Where Domain 3 catches people

Putting team configuration in a user-scoped file, which works perfectly for its author and for nobody else. Planning a one-line fix, or executing straight into a migration that touches forty-five files. Letting the session that wrote the code review it. And running Claude Code in CI without -p, which hangs waiting for an interaction nobody is there to give.

Say the path out loud

This domain's distractors are frequently the right idea at the wrong path or with the wrong flag. If you can state the exact file and the exact option before reading the choices, most items in this domain resolve in seconds.

What is quoted, and what is argued

The weight and the 6 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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