Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool. You give it a task such as a bug fix, a set of tests or a multi-day migration, and it reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands and works through the job. You set the permissions it has, and you can steer it and review its work from a desktop app, the terminal, an IDE, Slack or the web.
It is built for developers who work in large codebases. According to the page, it maps and explains a project without you choosing context files, follows imports across a repo, runs your tests, and carries on when something breaks, asking you when it needs a decision. It can take a GitHub or GitLab issue through to an opened pull request, and it can run several tasks at once.
Setup is a single install command for the terminal, with native extensions for VS Code and JetBrains IDEs. It works with command line tools such as Git and with MCP servers like GitHub, so it fits into the tools a team already uses.
Access comes with Claude Pro, Max or Ultra plans, a Team or Enterprise plan, or a Claude Console account. The Team plan is listed at $20 per seat per month when billed annually, for teams of 2 to 150. Enterprise adds role-based access, spend limits and custom data controls, with pricing on request. Usage limits apply on all plans.
