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What is Claude Code?

Anthropic's agentic AI coding tool that operates in your terminal and IDE.

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Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic AI coding assistant that works directly in your terminal and integrates with VS Code, JetBrains, and other editors. It can read, write, and modify files, run terminal commands, search codebases, and orchestrate complex development workflows. Claude Code supports skills (SKILL.md), rules, hooks, CLAUDE.md configuration, MCP servers, and subagents for comprehensive development automation. It is the primary platform for the Claude Skills ecosystem.

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