Claude Code

Anthropic's agentic coding tool for the terminal, IDE, desktop and web.

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What it does

Claude Code reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands and tests, and works through multi-step engineering tasks with permission controls. It supports MCP servers, plugins, skills, subagents and project instructions (CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md).

Pricing

Included with paid Claude plans or billed via API usage — see site

Best for

Large refactors
Terminal-first development
Autonomous bug fixing

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