Q13 of 60 — CCA Practice Exam

Developer Productivity with Claude

Your team uses Claude Code in developer scripts to automate one-off tasks like summarizing changelogs and generating release notes. These scripts run on each developer's workstation. Three developers report that the same script produces different outputs on their machines — one developer's runs include tool calls from an MCP server the others don't have, and another's apply a hook that modifies the summarization behavior. The scripts use claude -p without additional flags. What change most reliably eliminates this cross-environment inconsistency?

A. Add an explicit system prompt instruction to the claude -p call telling Claude to ignore any locally configured hooks or plugins during script execution.

B. Require each developer to clear their ~/.claude directory before running shared scripts so no personal configuration interferes.

C. Switch the scripts to use claude --bare -p so that auto-discovery of hooks, MCP servers, CLAUDE.md, and plugins is skipped, and only explicitly passed flags take effect.

D. Move all shared MCP server and hook configuration into the project's .mcp.json so every developer loads the same set of servers from the project root.