Context Management and Reliability

Keeping Claude systems reliable: context window management, memory, retrieval, compaction, error handling, retries and observability.

CLA-303 12 lessons planned ▶ Video lessons coming soon

Offered by HSM University · Claude Certification Prep

Course content

  1. 1How context affects qualityComing
  2. 2Budgeting the context windowComing
  3. 3Retrieval design for agentsComing
  4. 4Memory and persistence across sessionsComing
  5. 5Compaction and summarizationComing
  6. 6Handling tool errors gracefullyComing
  7. 7Retries, timeouts and fallbacksComing
  8. 8Determinism and consistencyComing
  9. 9Observability and tracing for agentsComing
  10. 10Reliability testingComing
  11. 11Graceful degradationComing
  12. 12Scenario: making a flaky agent reliableComing

Requirements

Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.

Description

Keeping Claude systems reliable: context window management, memory, retrieval, compaction, error handling, retries and observability.