Claude Code
Anthropic PBC · Messaging & Communication
Version 2.1.178
Free
x64
windows
42 Downloads
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Claude Code is a Free Windows program in the Messaging & Communication category, developed by Anthropic PBC. The current version is 2.1.178; you can download it safely from its official source with the download button above.
Claude Code is Anthropic’s agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal and helps you turn ideas into code faster than ever before.
What Claude Code does for you
- Build features from descriptions: Tell Claude what you want to build in plain English. It will make a plan, write the code, and ensure it works.
- Debug and fix issues: Describe a bug or paste an error message. Claude Code will analyze your codebase, identify the problem, and implement a fix.
- Navigate any codebase: Ask anything about your team’s codebase, and get a thoughtful answer back. Claude Code maintains awareness of your entire project structure, can find up-to-date information from the web, and with MCP can pull from external datasources like Google Drive, Figma, and Slack.
- Automate tedious tasks: Fix fiddly lint issues, resolve merge conflicts, and write release notes. Do all this in a single command from your developer machines, or automatically in CI.
Why developers love Claude Code
- Works in your terminal: Not another chat window. Not another IDE. Claude Code meets you where you already work, with the tools you already love.
- Takes action: Claude Code can directly edit files, run commands, and create commits. Need more? MCP lets Claude read your design docs in Google Drive, update your tickets in Jira, or use your custom developer tooling.
- Unix philosophy: Claude Code is composable and scriptable. tail -f app.log | claude -p "Slack me if you see any anomalies appear in this log stream" works. Your CI can run claude -p "If there are new text strings, translate them into French and raise a PR for @lang-fr-team to review".
- Enterprise-ready: Use Anthropic’s API, or host on AWS or GCP. Enterprise-grade security, privacy, and compliance is built-in.
✨ Features
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📝 Release notes (2.1.178)
- Added Tool(param:value) syntax for permission rules to match a tool's input parameters (with * wildcard), e.g. Agent(model:opus) to block Opus subagents
- Skills in nested .claude/skills directories now load when working on files there; on a name clash, the nested skill appears as : so both stay available
- Nested .claude/ directories: the agent, workflow, and output-style closest to the working directory now wins when names collide; project-scope workflow saves now target the closest existing .claude/workflows/
- Improved auto mode: subagent spawns are now evaluated by the classifier before launch, closing a gap where a subagent could request a blocked action without review
- Improved /doctor with consistent flat tree layout across all sections, clearer section status icons, and highlighted command names
- Improved the skill listing truncation warning to show how many skill descriptions are affected
- Changed the workflow prompt keyword to use a purple shimmer highlight and trigger only on explicit phrases like "run a workflow" or "workflow:", not on any mention of the word
- Improved Remote Control error messages: connection failures now show a persistent red "/rc failed" indicator in the footer, and the "not yet enabled" error now explains whether it's a gate, a check failure, stale entitlement, or org policy
- /bug now requires a description before submitting, and no longer uses model-refusal text as the GitHub issue title
- Fixed a crash (out-of-memory) when the CLI inherits a stale websocket/OAuth file-descriptor environment variable from a parent process
- Fixed Claude in Chrome silently failing to connect when the OAuth token belongs to a different account than the Claude Code login
- Fixed nested .claude/skills skills with directory-qualified names being blocked by permission prompts in non-interactive runs
- Fixed several subagent issues: viewing a subagent's transcript now shows tool results and live progress, messages sent while it finishes its turn are no longer dropped, and backgrounding a running subagent (ctrl+b) no longer restarts it from scratch
- Fixed claude agents workers failing with 401 Invalid bearer token when the daemon was started from a shell with a custom API gateway via ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL and ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN
- Fixed compaction not honoring --fallback-model: compaction now falls back to the configured fallback model chain on overload or model-availability errors
- Fixed model requests continuing to fail with auth errors after credentials were refreshed outside the session, due to a stale cached request configuration
- Fixed background sessions created with /bg or ←← after a turn finished showing "Working" forever in the agents list
- Fixed CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_KEEP_MARKETPLACE_ON_FAILURE=1 preventing fresh marketplace installs from cloning
- Fixed MCP server-level specs (mcp__server, mcp__server__*, mcp__*) in subagent disallowedTools being silently ignored
- Fixed vim mode undo: u now steps through NORMAL/VISUAL-mode commands one at a time instead of merging commands in quick succession into a single undo step
- Fixed statusline links with custom URI schemes (e.g. vscode://) not opening when clicked in claude agents
- [VSCode] Fixed pressing Esc to dismiss a CJK IME candidate window canceling the running Claude task
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