Agentic coding assistant from Anthropic
Claude Code is an AI coding assistant that brings Claude’s reasoning and coding abilities into software development workflows. It can understand repository and project context, helping users examine existing code and work through software tasks that involve multiple steps. The tool can also generate code, explain how code works, and help debug problems.
For changes that span a project, Claude Code can apply coordinated edits across multiple files rather than treating each file in isolation. Its capabilities also support terminal-based workflows and architecture reasoning, making it useful for tasks that require understanding how different parts of a codebase fit together. Claude Code is available through terminal, desktop, web, and API environments.
