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🌟 Technical Board Accreditation β€’ 2026 Production Standards

Certified AI Agent Systems Architect

Demonstrate verified mastery of production agent architectures, Model Context Protocol integration, durable Human-in-the-Loop workflows, and defense-in-depth safety engineering.

🌳 Systems Architect Skill Tree

Four core competency pillars required for enterprise AI agent systems certification.

Required Score: 80%+
🐝 Track 01

Foundations & Control Flow

ReAct reasoning loops, DAG task decomposition, supervisor-worker hierarchies, and cycle-depth bounds.

  • βœ“ LangGraph State Graphs
  • βœ“ Dynamic DAG Replanning
  • βœ“ Budget Circuit Breakers
πŸ”Œ Track 02

Protocols & Tooling

Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent-to-Agent (A2A), JSON-RPC 2.0 stdio/SSE, and Pydantic validation.

  • βœ“ MCP Client / Server Spec
  • βœ“ Strict JSON Schema Bounds
  • βœ“ Tool Handshake Negotiation
⏸️ Track 03

Durable State & HITL

Zero-compute execution pauses, PostgreSQL frame serialization, webhook hydration, and microVM sandboxes.

  • βœ“ Stateless Worker Pools
  • βœ“ Firecracker Jail Boundaries
  • βœ“ Webhook Resume Hydration
πŸ›‘οΈ Track 04

Safety & Cost Scaling

Dual-LLM privilege separation, indirect prompt injection defense, prompt context caching, and OpenTelemetry.

  • βœ“ Dual-LLM Air-Gap DMZ
  • βœ“ Context Caching (90% savings)
  • βœ“ Hallucination Attributions
Technical Examination

Systems Architect Capstone Exam

10 production scenario questions. Select the correct architectural decision for each problem.

0 of 10 scenarios answered