Claude Code

Anthropic's official agentic coding CLI for Claude

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About Claude Code

Claude Code is Anthropic's official CLI tool for using Claude as a coding assistant directly in your terminal. It can read and write files, execute commands, search your codebase, and handle complex multi-step coding tasks autonomously.

Features

✦Terminal-native
✦Multi-file editing
✦Git integration
✦Codebase reasoning
✦Tool use
✦MCP support

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • +Terminal-native workflow
  • +Can execute shell commands
  • +Deep file system access
  • +Excellent reasoning for complex tasks
  • +Official Anthropic support

Cons

  • −Requires Anthropic API key
  • −CLI-only (no GUI)
  • −Token costs can add up
  • −Newer than alternatives

Platforms

macOSLinuxWindows

Tags

#coding#cli#anthropic#claude#agentic

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