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Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflows - all through natura. Claude is open source, written primarily in Python. Its repository has 139.6K GitHub stars and 22.4K forks, and was last committed to within the last two weeks. Niched places it in AI agents & autonomous workflows, AI coding assistants & agents, AI writing & copywriting.
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