Claude Code

agent

Anthropic's coding agent. Runs in your terminal, IDE, CI, or the cloud; plans and executes multi-step engineering work with tool use — reading code, editing files, running commands, opening PRs.

01At a glance

interfaces

cli · sdk-typescript · sdk-python · web · ide · ci

models

claude (configurable)

pricing

Claude Pro/Max subscription or API usage billing.

source

github.com/anthropics/claude-code

license

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kind

coding-agent

02Install

shell

npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
# or
curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash

03Invoke

method

04Benchmarks · harness always noted

SWE-bench Verified with Claude Sonnet 4.5; vendor-reported77.2%