Project-scoped config
Shared Claude Code rules, skills, and MCP definitions checked into the repo so the team inherits one standard on clone instead of tribal personal setups.
Exam context: Personal config standing in for team standards is a red flag.
See also: 7.1 Configure Claude for teams
Secret hygiene
Keeping API keys and MCP tokens out of VCS, shell history, and prompts — using env vars or a vault, with rotation after any exposure.
Exam context: Secrets in git or history fail team-config items.
See also: 7.1 Configure Claude for teams
Bootstrap docs
A written clone → secrets → verify path that new teammates can follow without Slack lore or copying someone’s home directory.
Exam context: Missing bootstrap leaves personal config as the unofficial standard.
See also: 7.1 Configure Claude for teams
AI workflow gates
Required human or automated checks — especially merge and release — that remain in force while AI drafts reviews, docs, or triage notes.
Exam context: Automation that removes necessary review is wrong.
See also: 7.2 AI-assisted workflows
Outcome metrics (dev productivity)
Time saved and error/revert rates used to judge AI-assisted workflows, as opposed to vanity adoption counts alone.
Exam context: Installs without outcome movement do not prove success.
See also: 7.2 AI-assisted workflows
Traces and minimal fixtures
Request/tool logs plus the smallest reproducible input used to debug intermittent Claude, tool, or MCP failures before rewriting prompts.
Exam context: Guessing without traces is the distractor.
See also: 7.3 Debugging & ops
Product vs prompt/tool bug
Fault isolation that separates wrong business behavior from prompt/skill mistakes, tool/AuthZ failures, and MCP/config wiring issues.
Exam context: Collapsing all failures into one bucket fails debug-ops items.
See also: 7.3 Debugging & ops
Ops runbook
A reusable record of symptoms, signals, repro, classification, fix, and verify steps so on-call does not repeat archaeology for the same agent incident.
Exam context: Fix-once-with-no-writeup fails operational enablement.
See also: 7.3 Debugging & ops