Discuss Anthropic CCAR-P Exam Topic 5 Question 5

Engineering leadership wants to roll out Claude Skills to 280 developers across 14 teams. Skills will encode internal coding standards, code-review checklists, and incident-postmortem templates. Leadership has asked how to govern Skill authorship so that Skills remain trustworthy without bottlenecking on a single central team.

Which governance model should you recommend?

APer-developer authorship across the 280 engineers with no team-level coordination required.

BCentralized authorship by a single platform team responsible for every Skill produced.

CFully decentralized authorship across the 14 teams with no review before publication.

DFederated authorship across the 14 teams with a central review and publication gate.

Suggested Answer: D

Federated authorship allows each domain team to maintain the procedural knowledge it understands while preserving organization-wide trust through a central publication gate. Team authors can update coding standards, review practices, and postmortem procedures without waiting for a single platform group to write every change. Central reviewers can validate ownership, security, tool permissions, duplication, versioning, testing evidence, and compliance before publication. Per-developer or fully decentralized publication creates inconsistent and potentially unsafe Skills. Fully centralized authorship becomes a scalability bottleneck and separates content maintenance from domain expertise. Anthropic describes Skills as packages of instructions, scripts, and resources and warns that repository Skills may grant broad tool access, making formal review essential. Claude Code Skills

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7 comments · newest first

Dierdre 2 days ago

Centralized authorship (B) could lead to bottlenecks.

Laurena 7 days ago

A sounds risky, too many cooks in the kitchen!

Tamesha 12 days ago

I think D is the best option for quality control.

Martina 17 days ago

I’m a bit confused about option A; it sounds appealing, but I worry about the lack of coordination leading to chaos.

Dottie 22 days ago

I practiced a similar question where centralization caused delays, so I’m leaning towards option D for its federated approach.

Svetlana 28 days ago

I'm not entirely sure, but I think having a completely decentralized approach like option C could lead to inconsistencies in the Skills.

Gianna 1 month ago

I remember discussing the importance of balancing autonomy and oversight in governance models. Option D seems like it could work well for that.

Anthropic CCAR-P Exam - Topic 5 Question 5 Discussion