Claude Code: the coding agent lands in the terminal (research preview)
In one sentence Alongside Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Anthropic introduces Claude Code as a limited research preview: a command-line tool that searches and reads code, edits files, writes and runs tests, commits and pushes to GitHub, and uses command-line tools.
On February 24, 2025 Anthropic introduces Claude Code, its first agentic coding tool. It's not an editor plugin: it's a terminal command you hand a task to ("add tests to function X", "explain this codebase"). It searches and reads the files, proposes and applies changes, runs the tests, and can commit and push to GitHub.
The difference from autocomplete isn't the model, it's the posture: instead of suggesting one line at a time, it works on whole tasks and asks for confirmation before acting.
At launch it is a limited research preview, announced in the same post as Claude 3.7 Sonnet, the model it runs on.
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Anthropic
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Claude Code, Claude 3.7 Sonnet
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