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Claude Code

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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. Use it in your terminal, IDE, or tag @claude on Github.

Learn more in the official documentation.



 Get started
 [!NOTE]
 Installation via npm is deprecated. Use one of the recommended methods below.

For more installation options, uninstall steps, and troubleshooting, see the setup documentation.

1. Install Claude Code:

    MacOS/Linux (Recommended):
    bash
    curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash
    

    Homebrew (MacOS/Linux):
    bash
    brew install --cask claude-code
    

    Windows (Recommended):
    powershell
    irm https://claude.ai/install.ps1 | iex
    

    WinGet (Windows):
    powershell
    winget install Anthropic.ClaudeCode
    

    NPM (Deprecated):
    bash
    npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
    

2. Navigate to your project directory and run claude.

 Plugins

Anthropic's Claude Code plugins are developed in claude-plugins-official. See the plugins directory for more about plugins.

 Reporting Bugs

We welcome your feedback. Use the /bug command to report issues directly within Claude Code, or file a GitHub issue.

 Connect on Discord

Join the Claude Developers Discord to connect with other developers using Claude Code. Get help, share feedback, and discuss your projects with the community.

 Data collection, usage, and retention

When you use Claude Code, we collect feedback, which includes usage data (such as code acceptance or rejections), associated conversation data, and user feedback submitted via the /bug command.

 How we use your data

See our data usage policies.

 Privacy safeguards

We have implemented several safeguards to protect your data, including limited retention periods for sensitive information, restricted access to user session data, and clear policies against using feedback for model training.

For full details, please review our Commercial Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

Top issues

Latest release

What's changed

- Changed auto mode with telemetry or feature flags off, including behind LLM gateways: calls the server can't check are asked about or denied, with no fallback to the built-in classifier; set CLAUDE_CODE_AUTO_MODE_SERVER=0 to keep using it (Bedrock, Vertex and Foundry are unchanged)
- Changed auto mode behind an LLM gateway: CLAUDE_CODE_AUTO_MODE_SERVER=1 turns on the server-side check even with CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_BETAS set; if managed settings set the latter, they must set the 1 too
- Added support for MCP tasks in the terminal: when an MCP server runs a tool ca