What is Claude Code?
Claude Code is Anthropic's command-line AI coding assistant that reads your project, makes changes, and runs commands on your behalf.
Claude Code is an AI coding tool built by Anthropic. You install it on your computer, point it at a project, and then talk to it in plain English. Behind the scenes it can read your files, write new code, edit existing code, run tests, and use Git, all from inside the terminal. You stay in the loop because every change shows up as a diff you can accept or reject.
What makes it different from chat-based AI is that it operates on your real project rather than a copy-pasted snippet. That means it understands the patterns you already use, can update several files at once, and can verify its own work by running things.
WeCode workshops use Claude Code as the central tool. The skill you build is less about memorising syntax and more about steering an AI teammate effectively, reading its work, and shipping with confidence.
Example
$ claude > Add a contact form to the marketing site that sends entries to my email.
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