Definition
Anthropic's command-line interface for working with the Claude model as a coding agent. It runs in the terminal, on the desktop (Mac/Windows), on the web (claude.ai/code) and inside IDEs (VS Code, JetBrains). It lets Claude perform multi-step tasks on the user's file system: reading, editing and creating code, running commands, opening PRs and orchestrating specialized agents.
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