Claude Code

Anthropic's CLI agent that lives in your terminal

Install

terminal

# Recommended (native binary)
$ curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash
 
# Or via npm (Node 18+ required)
$ npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
 
# Verify
$ claude doctor

How it works

•Runs in terminal, understands your codebase via AGENTS.md
•Executes bash commands, reads/writes files, runs git
•Context window = your project files + conversation
•Agentic: plans → executes → verifies

First Prompts

Click any prompt to copy it. Start with Easy, graduate to Stretch.

#1Easy

“Explain the project structure”

#2Easy

“Find where [X] is defined”

#3Stretch

“Add a new API endpoint for [feature]”

#4Stretch

“Run the tests and fix any failures”

No excuse not to try it.

Open it up, paste your first prompt, see what happens.