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Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflows - all through natural language commands.

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Use a coding assistant in your terminal that helps you write and understand code more efficiently.

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Install
curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash

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Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflows - all through natural language commands.

claude-code has 143k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 22.9k times. claude-code is written mainly in Python. It has been in active development since 2025.

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What is claude-code?

Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflows - all through natural language commands.

Is claude-code open source?

claude-code is an open-source project.

Is claude-code free?

Yes. claude-code is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

What language is claude-code written in?

claude-code is written mainly in Python.

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