Coding agent
Claude Code
Claude Code is a command-line agent: you describe a task and it explores the repository, edits files, runs commands and iterates until the job is done, asking for permission along the way.
Purpose
Anthropic's agentic coding tool that works from the terminal, reading and editing a codebase and running commands.
Capabilities
Autonomous multi-step codingRuns tests and commandsCodebase searchGit workflows