Claude Code is Anthropic's own coding agent, built on the Claude model family and designed to work directly in a terminal, inside VS Code or JetBrains, in a desktop app, or even in a browser, rather than being tied to one single interface. It maps an entire project's structure automatically, generates and edits files, runs commands, and creates commits, with every action requiring explicit approval by default rather than running unsupervised.
It handles tasks like implementing a feature end to end, fixing bugs, resolving merge conflicts, and generating release notes, and through the Model Context Protocol it can reach external systems like Google Drive, Figma, Slack, and GitHub when configured to do so. It's fully scriptable, which lets developers pipe logs into it for live monitoring or wire it into other automated workflows rather than only using it interactively.
It's bundled into every paid Claude plan starting at $20 a month, which puts a genuinely capable agentic coding tool behind the same subscription as Anthropic's general assistant, and enterprise deployment options through AWS Bedrock and Google Cloud's Vertex AI extend it into regulated environments that need a specific cloud provider relationship.