Claude Code (desktop app) · Anthropic
Anthropic's Claude-only agent harness in native desktop form, redesigned April 14, 2026 around a multi-session sidebar for parallel agents across repos, with integrated terminal/editor/diff viewer, cloud-hosted 'Routines' that run on Anthropic infrastructure while your machine is off, and the ecosystem that originated Agent Skills, subagents, hooks, plugins, and the headless Agent SDK (repo is issue tracker/docs; stars 136,750).
Identity
| Homepage | https://code.claude.com/docs/en/desktop |
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| Repository | https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code |
| License | proprietary |
| Domain | coding |
| Form factor | desktop-app · cli · cloud-service |
Model support
| Model-agnostic | ○ no |
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| Native models | Claude Opus · Claude Sonnet · Claude Haiku |
| Local models | ○ no |
| Pricing | subscription |
Extensibility
| MCP client | ✓ yes |
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| Agent Skills support | ✓ yes |
| Plugins / hooks | ✓ yes |
Execution & safety
| Sandboxing | optional |
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| Autonomy spectrum | supervised → semi-autonomous → autonomous-local → background-cloud |
| Subagents | ✓ yes |
| Parallel sessions | ✓ yes |
| Context management | compaction · persistent-memory |
Integration & evidence
| Headless / API | ✓ yes |
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| GitHub integration | ✓ yes |
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✓ profile last verified 2026-07-08 · benchmark figures are vendor-reported unless a source states otherwise