Claude Code Glossary
Anthropic's agentic coding tool: a command-line collaborator that can read a repository, edit files, run tests, and turn model capability into software work.
Claude Code is Anthropic’s agentic coding tool: a command-line collaborator that can inspect a repository, propose changes, edit files, run tests, and use tool calls as part of a coding workflow.
Claude Code treats the repository, rather than only the chat transcript, as the working object. It operates on files, diffs, tests, and build logs under the human operator’s direction.
In the Dictionary’s vocabulary, Claude Code belongs beside English major, Tool, Agent, and Implementation Layer War. It is a concrete example of model capability becoming delegated technical work through a tool-bearing harness.