Claude Code: AI agent (CLI agent) in 2026

Anthropic's agent for the terminal, IDE and desktop that reads, edits and runs code in your repo.

Sourced facts checked 2026-10-17 Rank 2 of 16 in CLI agent. Source: Official site or docs, checked 2026-10-17.

Key facts

Type	AI agent
Category	CLI agent
Maker	Anthropic
Interface	CLI, IDE, desktop
Licence	proprietary (no SPDX licence on GitHub repo) (Proprietary)
GitHub stars	151,499 (as of 2026-10-17)
Supported models	Anthropic Claude models
MCP support	Yes (per official docs)
Subagents	Yes
Headless mode	Yes
Sandboxing	Yes
Pricing (official)	Included in Claude Pro ($20/mo monthly, $17/mo annual), Max (from $100/mo), Team and Enterprise ($20/seat/mo + API-rate usage); or pay-as-you-go API credits via Console. (checked 2026-10-16)
Note	Star count is for the public anthropics/claude-code repo (issues/plugins), which has no licence and is not the source code.
Website	https://code.claude.com/docs/en/overview
Source	https://code.claude.com/docs/en/overview (checked 2026-10-17)
Vibe Shipped harness page	https://vibeshipped.io/harness/claude-code

Install

This agent is an MCP client (official docs). To give it a server from this directory, add that server in this agent's own MCP settings; every MCP server entry shows the snippet.

Source: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/overview (checked 2026-10-17).

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