Claude Code
Claude Code is Anthropic’s terminal-native AI coding assistant. It runs interactive sessions and headless jobs, reads and writes files in your project, runs shell commands, and supports the full stack of Claude building blocks — skills, plugins, hooks, subagents, MCP, and CLAUDE.md project memory.
Install
Section titled “Install”Follow the official install instructions, which stay current as Anthropic updates the recommended method:
→ Claude Code setup (official docs)
For the broader Claude onboarding (account, plan, apps), see Getting Started with Claude.
What you can do with it
Section titled “What you can do with it”- Interactive coding — refactor, debug, write tests, explore a codebase with the AI navigating files and running commands
- Headless automation —
claude -p "prompt" --dangerously-skip-permissionsin CI/CD or scheduled jobs - Extend with skills and plugins — install from handsonai-plugins or write your own
- Connect to external systems — MCP servers give Claude Code access to databases, APIs, and project tooling
- Project memory —
CLAUDE.mdpersists conventions and context across sessions
Related
Section titled “Related”- CLI building block — how CLIs fit alongside APIs, SDKs, and agents
- Installing Skills on Claude — native skill support in Claude Code
- Building Agents on Claude — subagents, orchestration, and scheduled work
- Scheduling Subagents — run Claude Code on a schedule
- Official Claude Code docs