Anthropic · Coding tools

Claude Code

Anthropic’s agentic coding tool for the terminal, IDEs, desktop and web that reads, edits and runs code in your project.

Best for

Delegating multi-step coding tasks across a codebase.

Worth knowing

Agents act on your files; review changes and permissions.

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