Claude Certification
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Lesson 1 · 5 min

Claude Code: What It Is

Anthropic's official agentic CLI for software work.

Claude Code is a terminal-first agent that reads your codebase, runs tools, and edits files. It ships with Read/Write/Edit/Bash/Grep tools and an MCP client so you can add your own.

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Where does Claude Code read project-scoped settings?