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Issue No. 17Anthropic · Official
anthropics /claude-code
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…
10 chapters · 49 minutes · 10,604 words · 4 parts
Install and provenance
npx skills add anthropics/claude-code/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-code- Owner
- anthropics · Organization
- Licence
- All rights reserved — view on GitHub
- Last updated
- Published from
- github.com/
anthropics/ claude-code
| Week | Installs |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | 1,978 |
| Week 2 | 1,308 |
| Week 3 | 1,267 |
| Week 4 | 1,157 |
| Week 5 | 1,143 |
| Week 6 | 969 |
| Week 7 | 935 |
| Week 8 | 871 |
Typeset in this issue’s own colours, resolved from the awesome-design-md registry.
Front matter
From the README
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 natural language commands. Use it in your terminal, IDE, or tag @claude on Github.
Learn more in the official documentation (opens in a new tab).
Get started
[!NOTE] Installation via npm is deprecated. Use one of the recommended methods below.
For more installation options, uninstall steps, and troubleshooting, see the setup documentation (opens in a new tab).
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Install Claude Code:
MacOS/Linux (Recommended):
curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bashHomebrew (MacOS/Linux):
brew install --cask claude-codeWindows (Recommended):
irm https://claude.ai/install.ps1 | iexWinGet (Windows):
winget install Anthropic.ClaudeCodeNPM (Deprecated):
npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code -
Navigate to your project directory and run
claude.
Plugins
This repository includes several Claude Code plugins that extend functionality with custom commands and agents. See the plugins directory (opens in a new tab) for detailed documentation on available plugins.
Reporting Bugs
We welcome your feedback. Use the /bug command to report issues directly within Claude Code, or file a GitHub issue (opens in a new tab).
Connect on Discord
Join the Claude Developers Discord (opens in a new tab) to connect with other developers using Claude Code. Get help, share feedback, and discuss your projects with the community.
Data collection, usage, and retention
When you use Claude Code, we collect feedback, which includes usage data (such as code acceptance or rejections), associated conversation data, and user feedback submitted via the /bug command.
How we use your data
See our data usage policies (opens in a new tab).
Privacy safeguards
We have implemented several safeguards to protect your data, including limited retention periods for sensitive information, restricted access to user session data, and clear policies against using feedback for model training.
For full details, please review our Commercial Terms of Service (opens in a new tab) and Privacy Policy (opens in a new tab).
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How this issue was made- Source
- github.com/anthropics/claude-code, branch
main, last pushed 8 August 2026. - Licence
- All rights reserved — view on GitHub — with no detectable licence, this issue links rather than republishes: the chapters are omitted from the agent manifest and from the whole-book markdown.
- Discovery
- 10 chapters found by walking the repository tree for
SKILL.md, not by matching a directory convention. 4 distinct layouts observed:plugins/claude-opus-4-5-migration/skills/*/SKILL.md,plugins/frontend-design/skills/*/SKILL.md,plugins/hookify/skills/*/SKILL.md,plugins/plugin-dev/skills/*/SKILL.md. - Issue colours
- Resolved from the awesome-design-md registry — hue 39°, chroma 0.113. Two accent tones are generated per issue and each is proven against its own ground before it ships: a single accent that passes AA on both light and dark paper is arithmetically impossible.
- Typefaces
- Display: Copernicus is not available to us; set in Newsreader.
- Heading repairs
- 1 repair applied to the front matter so the document has one
h1and no skipped levels:- Removed “Claude Code”, a leading h1 that duplicated the chapter title.
- Spec compliance
- 16 editorial notes across 8 of 10 chapters. They are printed in the margin of each chapter rather than as errors here.
- Writing Hookify Rules — 2 notes
- Agent Development — 2 notes
- Command Development — 2 notes
- Hook Development — 2 notes
- MCP Integration — 2 notes
- Plugin Settings — 2 notes
- Plugin Structure — 2 notes
- Skill Development — 2 notes
- Images
- Images inside a chapter come from the upstream repository. Where the author gave no alternative text we mark the image decorative rather than inventing a description — a plausible caption we made up is worse than none for the reader who depends on it.
- Marketplace
- A plugin manifest is published at
.claude-plugin/marketplace.jsonby Anthropic, declaring 13 plugins. It is read for editorial metadata only — never as the skill index, which is always the repository tree. - Signal
- Install counts come from skills.sh. They measure downloads, not quality, and an unranked repository is not an unread one.
- Agent surfaces
- The whole issue is available as one markdown document at
/anthropics/claude-code.md, and each chapter at its own.mdURL. - Publication
- Set by Skills Docs from the source repository. Body text is Literata at the reader’s chosen size and measure; code is Geist Mono. Nothing on this page was written by us except this paragraph.