Certification Checkpoint
To certify on the Full-Stack Engineer track you must demonstrate, in a 30-minute live exercise:
1. Load the right skill from a natural-language request — name the skill, paste the load command. 2. Drive a multi-step workflow across GitHub and Vercel — show the artifacts at each step. 3. Hand off cleanly to another track — produce the handoff doc with no missing fields. 4. Respond to a curveball — Eric or your reviewer changes a constraint mid-exercise; you adjust without re-loading skills unnecessarily.
Pass criteria: every claim has a link, no "keep an eye on it" entries, the right skill was loaded for each phase.
How Eric talks about this
“certify means demonstrate, not explain”
The cert checkpoint is a live exercise. You drive the workflow, the reviewer watches. Explaining what you would do is not the same as doing it.
“every claim has a link”
Cert pass criterion. During the 30-minute exercise, every status statement must be backed by a URL, a record, or a file path. Reviewers count missing links.
“prove it with a URL”
The signature rule for this track. If you can't apply 'prove it with a URL' under time pressure in the cert exercise, the muscle isn't built yet.
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Try it yourself
Run the 30-minute certification exercise with a reviewer (Eric, your TL, or a certified peer). Submit: the recording, the artifacts produced, the reviewer's pass/fail with notes. Prove it with a url applies — every artifact must be linked.
- reviewer pass mark
- every artifact has a link
- no 'keep an eye on it' entries
Quick check
1. How long is the certification exercise?
- a. 10 minutes
- b. 30 minutes
- c. 2 hours
- d. A full day
Reveal answer
30 minutes live with a reviewer. Tight scope, real work, real artifacts.
2. What disqualifies a cert run?
- a. Going under time
- b. A 'keep an eye on it' entry
- c. Loading a skill
- d. Asking the reviewer a question
Reveal answer
Generic next steps disqualify. Every claim needs a link, every item needs an owner and a date.
3. Who can sign off a certification?
- a. Anyone
- b. Eric, your TL, or a certified peer on the same track
- c. Only Eric
- d. Self-certification
Reveal answer
Cert sign-off requires a reviewer who is themselves certified on the track (or Eric / your TL).
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