Claude Code
Anthropic's agentic coding tool for the terminal and IDE.
Where it ranks
- Terminal coding agent: Pick (99.2/100)
Pricing
Included with Claude Pro: $17/mo billed annually or $20 billed monthly; higher tiers available.
Source: https://claude.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-19
Public signals
| GitHub stars | 153ksource |
|---|---|
| Forks | 26.6k |
| Last push | Oct 21, 2026 |
| 7-day star change | unknown (needs 7 days of snapshots) |
| Latest stable release | v2.1.306 Oct 21, 2026 |
| Hacker News, last 30 days | 89 stories, 915 points · top: How the Claude Code team does code reviewquery |
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Recent releases
- v2.1.306 Oct 21, 2026
What's changed Fixed claude -p inside cloud sessions reporting "Not logged in" when started without the session's environment variables Fixed an API error being replaced by "prompt is too long", and an unneeded compaction, in sessions with many MCP tools - v2.1.305 Oct 20, 2026
What's changed Added sandbox.allowNestedUserNamespaces so sandboxed commands on Linux can create user namespaces (Chromium, rootless podman); this lets them get around the sandbox's file protections Added CLAUDE_CODE_RETRY_WATCHDOG_USAGE_LIMIT_RECHECK_MS so unattended retry mode - v2.1.304 Oct 19, 2026
What's changed Added a transcript line when a plugin that runs first skips one of your mod's hooks, naming the event and the plugin Added decider: "person" to a mod's tool.check answer: only the permission dialog or a host's callback can approve the ask, and it is refused with th