AgentsClaude Code
A strong terminal-first coding agent. Anthropic's coding agent. It runs in your terminal, IDE and the Claude desktop app, reads your repo, edits files, runs commands and tests, and asks before it changes things.
✓ Last verified October 15, 2026 from official sourcesIncluded with Claude Pro ($20/mo, or $17/mo billed annually) and Max (from $100/mo), and shares the plan's usage limits. Team Standard seats are $20/seat/mo annually ($25 monthly). You can also pay per token through the API.
Developers who live in the terminal. Repo-wide changes with tests.
Cloud model; your code stays on your machine except what's sent as context. Also available through Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud Vertex AI. Skill level: Intermediate.
What it's great at
- Repo-wide changes it can test
- Long, careful refactors
What it can do
- Multi-file changes it can test in your own environment
- Works in the terminal, VS Code and JetBrains, and the desktop app
- Extends with MCP connectors, and the Claude Agent SDK is built on the same harness
Example tasks to try
- "Find why the checkout test fails, fix it, and run the suite."
Start in 5 minutes
- Get Claude Pro or Max
- Install Claude Code from the official page
- Run it in a project folder and give it one small, testable task
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Watch out for
It shares your Claude plan's usage limits.
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