Claude Code (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/claude-code
Anthropic's agentic coding tool: Claude as a coding agent in the terminal, IDEs (VS Code, JetBrains), desktop app, web/mobile, GitHub and Slack. Context via CLAUDE.md, skills, hooks, subagents and MCP servers.
Active · Verified 2026-10-28 · fresh as of 2026-10-28 · 68 cited facts, 2 with a third-party source · 2 recorded changes · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Terminal-native agentic coding harness vendor fix
- Tier
- T1
- Section
- Agent IDEs & coding harnesses
- Latest release
- v2.1.310 (2026-10-23) vendor fix
- License
- proprietary — © Anthropic PBC, use subject to Anthropic Commercial Terms (repo public, not OSS) repo fix
- Pricing
- No free tier; included in Pro ($20/mo, $17 annual), Max (from $100/mo), Team ($25/seat/mo, $20 annual), Enterprise; or API pay-per-token via Console vendor fix
- Funding
- Anthropic (parent) — $65B Series H at $965B post-money (2026-05-28); S-1 filed for a proposed IPO (2026-10-26) vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-28 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial repo fix
- Developer activity
- OpenRank 724.81 (12-mo avg 688.98) · 8842 participants — 2026-09 third-party fix
When to use
Optimised for: Anthropic Claude as a long-running coding agent; MCP + skills + hooks composable surface
Anti-fit: Anthropic-only (no GPT, Gemini); terminal-only — no GUI
Pros & cons
Pros
Reference harness for Claude; richest extensibility surface in the field (subagents, skills, hooks, MCP) — the others copy it.
Cons
Anthropic-only model lock; CLI-first UX is a barrier vs IDE chat panes; pricing rides Anthropic API usage rather than seat tiers.
Claims & capabilities
Anthropic-built terminal agent; GA 2024-10 alongside Sonnet 3.5; primary distribution channel for Anthropic's coding-agent capability evals (SWE-bench Verified leaderboard).
Technical surface
- API surface
- CLI (Node.js); subagents; hooks; MCP
- Backend storage
- local CLAUDE.md + ~/.claude state + git
- Deployment
- Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — local CLI/IDE/desktop client plus cloud sessions on web; models via Anthropic API (or Bedrock/Vertex)
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- per-user (terminal-local)
- MCP
- yes — MCP client (claude mcp add; stdio and HTTP servers)
- A2A
- searched not found
- OpenTelemetry
- searched not found
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Sources (67 cited facts, 2 third-party)
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- What it is Terminal-native agentic coding harness vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Anthropic's agentic coding tool: Claude as a coding agent in the terminal, IDEs (VS Code… vendor
- Claims / benefits Anthropic-built terminal agent; GA 2024-10 alongside Sonnet 3.5; primary distribution ch… vendor
- Modalities text vendor
- Created 2024-10 vendor
- Latest release v2.1.310 (2026-10-23) vendor
- License proprietary — © Anthropic PBC, use subject to Anthropic Commercial Terms (repo public, n… repo
- GitHub anthropics/claude-code — ~153k stars, last commit 2026-10 repo
- Mindshare 50+ HN front-page threads; the de-facto reference for Claude coding sessions vendor
- Funding Anthropic (parent) — $65B Series H at $965B post-money (2026-05-28); S-1 filed for a pro… vendor
- Customers / scale Anthropic API customers (broad); preferred harness for Claude coding evals vendor
- Pricing No free tier; included in Pro ($20/mo, $17 annual), Max (from $100/mo), Team ($25/seat/m… vendor
- Compliance SOC 2 Type II (Anthropic); ISO 27001 vendor
- Data handling Default no-train on customer prompts (API tier); enterprise zero-retention available vendor
- Deployment Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — local CLI/IDE/desktop client plus cloud sessions on… vendor
- HQ US (San Francisco; Anthropic) vendor
- Founders / pedigree Anthropic — Boris Cherny (Claude Code lead); built on Claude (Dario + Daniela Amodei fou… vendor
- Memory volume / scale Claude Code run-rate revenue over $2.5B (2026-02-12; more than doubled since the start o… vendor
- Performance SOTA on SWE-bench Verified for Claude (~72% with Sonnet 4.5) vendor
- API surface CLI (Node.js); subagents; hooks; MCP vendor
- Backend storage local CLAUDE.md + ~/.claude state + git vendor
- Multi-tenancy per-user (terminal-local) vendor
- Encryption TLS for API; local storage at rest vendor
- SSO / RBAC via Anthropic Console (Team/Enterprise) vendor
- Versioning CLAUDE.md in git vendor
- Schema evolution free-form / no schema vendor
- Namespace primitives project-scope (./CLAUDE.md) + user-scope (~/.claude/CLAUDE.md) vendor
- Contradiction handling human-arbitrate via CLAUDE.md edits vendor
- MCP support yes — MCP client (claude mcp add; stdio and HTTP servers) vendor
- Webhooks / events hooks API (PreToolUse, PostToolUse, etc.) vendor
- Import / export CLAUDE.md and skills are markdown files vendor
- Validated verticals coding agents — broad horizontal vendor
- Time to running <10min (`npm i -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code`) vendor
- Anti-fit Anthropic-only (no GPT, Gemini); terminal-only — no GUI vendor
- Optimised for Anthropic Claude as a long-running coding agent; MCP + skills + hooks composable surface vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure Anthropic API; MCP server ecosystem vendor
- Pros Reference harness for Claude; richest extensibility surface in the field (subagents, ski… vendor
- Cons Anthropic-only model lock; CLI-first UX is a barrier vs IDE chat panes; pricing rides An… vendor
- Project & sources anthropic.com/claude-code; docs.anthropic.com/claude-code vendor
- obs-langsmith no vendor
- obs-opentelemetry yes vendor
- obs-datadog yes third-party
- obs-helicone no vendor
- obs-weave no vendor
- obs-langfuse no vendor
- obs-arize no vendor
- obs-custom Native OTLP export; enterprise telemetry guide includes Datadog, Honeycomb, Splunk recei… vendor
- cost-token-budget yes vendor
- cost-prompt-caching yes vendor
- cost-semantic-caching no vendor
- cost-batching no vendor
- cost-model-routing yes vendor
- cost-streaming-only yes vendor
- cost-observability-cost-attribution yes vendor
- eval-langsmith-evals no vendor
- eval-braintrust no vendor
- eval-weights-and-biases-agent no vendor
- eval-helicone-evals no vendor
- eval-custom-test-harness yes vendor
- eval-human-loop no vendor
- eval-production-traffic-replay no vendor
- download-trajectory [{"ym":"2023-05","monthly":0,"cum":0},{"ym":"2023-06","monthly":0,"cum":0},{"ym":"2023-0… registry
- architecture-deployment-locus hybrid vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial repo
- positioning-platform-vs-product product vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- developer-activity-opendigger {"activity":11553.35,"as_of":"2026-09","openrank_12mo":688.98,"openrank_current":724.81,… third-party
What changed
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- 2026-10-28
- Funding / ownership “Anthropic (parent) — $13.7B Series F 2025-09 $183B val” → “Anthropic (parent) — $65B Series H at $965B post-money (2026-05-28); S-1 filed for a proposed IPO (2026-10-26)” source
- 2026-10-26
- License “Proprietary (Anthropic) — JavaScript runtime open under separate terms” → “proprietary — © Anthropic PBC, use subject to Anthropic Commercial Terms (repo public, not OSS)” source
- Latest release “Claude Code 1.x (2025-2026, rolling)” → “v2.1.310 (2026-10-23)” source
- Pricing “Included with Anthropic API + Pro/Team subscriptions” → “No free tier; included in Pro ($20/mo, $17 annual), Max (from $100/mo), Team ($25/seat/mo, $20 annual), Enterprise; or API pay-per-token via Console” source
- Deployment “Cloud (terminal runs locally; API in cloud)” → “Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — local CLI/IDE/desktop client plus cloud sessions on web; models via Anthropic API (or Bedrock/Vertex)” source
- MCP support “native — Claude Code is the reference MCP client” → “yes — MCP client (claude mcp add; stdio and HTTP servers)” source
Related systems
References (2)
- Anthropic Claude (foundation models) depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: Anthropic API; MCP server ecosystem
- Model Context Protocol (MCP spec) depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: Anthropic API; MCP server ecosystem
Referenced by (27)
- agentgateway integrates with — agentgateway integrations docs have a Claude Code client page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Arize Phoenix integrates with — Arize Phoenix docs have a Claude Code (Anthropic) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Arthur Engine integrates with — Arthur Engine repo has an integrations/claude-code-observability integration. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Bifrost (Maxim AI) integrates with — Bifrost docs have a CLI-agent integration page for Claude Code. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Braintrust integrates with — Braintrust docs have a Claude Code (Anthropic) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Cloudflare AI Gateway integrates with — Cloudflare AI Gateway integrations docs have a Claude Code page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Comet ML integrates with — Comet's Opik docs have a Claude Code (Anthropic) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Daytona integrates with — Daytona docs have a guide for running Claude Code (Anthropic) with Daytona sandboxes. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Docker MCP Catalog, Toolkit & Gateway integrates with — Docker MCP Toolkit get-started page has connect-client instructions for Claude Code. (verified 2026-10-29)
- e2b integrates with — E2B docs have a Claude Code (Anthropic) integration guide. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Fireworks AI integrates with — Fireworks AI docs integration: Claude Code (Nexus coding harness). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Helicone integrates with — Helicone docs have a Claude Code (Anthropic) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- HoneyHive integrates with — HoneyHive integrations docs have a Claude Code tracing/integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Inspect AI integrates with — Inspect AI "Agent Bridge" page documents bridging Claude Code agents into Inspect evaluations. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Keycard integrates with — Keycard docs have a "Connect coding agents" guide putting Keycard between Claude Code and its tools. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Laminar integrates with — Laminar integrations docs have a Claude Code observability page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Langfuse integrates with — Langfuse's integrations directory has a Claude Code (Anthropic) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LangSmith integrates with — LangSmith docs have a tracing integration page for Claude Code (Anthropic). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Mem0 integrates with — Mem0 docs have a Claude Code integration page (Persistent cross-session memory for Claude Code. Install once, memories are captured automatically and recalled in every future session). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Merge Agent Handler integrates with — Merge Agent Handler page says it connects tools like Claude Code to company systems. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenRouter integrates with — OpenRouter docs have a cookbook page on using Claude Code with OpenRouter. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Pinecone integrates with — Pinecone's integrations directory has a Claude Code (Anthropic) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Portkey AI integrates with — Portkey docs have a Claude Code app/library integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Stagehand integrates with — Stagehand docs have a Claude Code (Anthropic) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Vercel AI Gateway integrates with — Vercel AI Gateway docs have a Claude Code coding-agent page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Vercel AI SDK integrates with — AI SDK docs have a Claude Code AI SDK harness provider page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Weights & Biases integrates with — W&B Weave docs have a Claude Code (Anthropic) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)