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Claude Code
Anthropic's terminal-native coding agent. It reads your codebase, edits files, runs tests, and turns issues into PRs with minimal hand-holding.
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ChronicleAUG 28, 2026
Claude Code 2.1.251 adds PreModelSwitch and PostModelSwitch hook events that block, confirm, or annotate a model switch, and live-streams a foreground subagent's tool calls and results to Remote Control clients. A spend-limit bar lands in /usage with per-session prompt-cache hit metrics in /cost, alongside security fixes for symlink-swapped file tools and plugin path traversal. ↗
AUG 11, 2026
Anthropic's Compliance API now exposes transcripts of Cowork and Claude Code sessions run on user machines (Enterprise beta), giving regulated teams a programmatic audit trail of agent activity alongside the new local-session endpoints. Same-day release also added the anthropic-workspace-id response header to every Claude API call, letting clients identify the workspace a key resolved to. ↗
JUL 24, 2026
Long-running tasks can now be handed off to cloud sandboxes and reviewed later as pull requests. ↗
MAR 04, 2026
The same agent loop that powers the CLI becomes embeddable, letting teams build their own coding agents on top. ↗
MAY 22, 2025
Anthropic takes its terminal coding agent out of research preview alongside the Claude 4 launch. ↗
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FAQWhat is Claude Code?
Anthropic's terminal-native coding agent. It reads your codebase, edits files, runs tests, and turns issues into PRs with minimal hand-holding.
Who makes Claude Code?
Claude Code is built by Anthropic, headquartered in San Francisco, and launched in May 2025.
Is Claude Code free?
Claude Code uses a freemium pricing model and is available on CLI. Check claude.ai for current plans.
What models does Claude Code run on?
On AgentMaps, Claude Code is charted as running on Claude.