Claude Code Documentation
Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal. It helps turn ideas into code, understands your codebase, and can execute commands with first-class TypeScript and Python support.
Documentation Structure
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references/ ├── getting-started/ # Quickstart and workflows (3 files) ├── configuration/ # Settings, models, memory (4 files) ├── build-with-claude-code/ # Skills, hooks, plugins, MCP (9 files) ├── deployment/ # Cloud providers, containers (8 files) └── reference/ # CLI, hooks, commands reference (6 files)
Topic Guide
| Topic | Key Files |
|---|---|
| Getting started | getting-started/overview.md, quick-start.md |
| Configuration | configuration/settings.md, model-configuration.md |
| Skills | build-with-claude-code/agent-skills.md |
| Hooks | build-with-claude-code/hooks.md, reference/hooks-reference.md |
| Plugins | build-with-claude-code/create-plugins.md, discover-plugins.md |
| MCP servers | build-with-claude-code/mcp.md |
| Subagents | build-with-claude-code/create-custom-subagents.md |
| Programmatic use | build-with-claude-code/programmatic-usage.md |
| Deployment | deployment/overview.md, cloud provider files |
| CLI reference | reference/cli-reference.md, slash-commands.md |
| Troubleshooting | build-with-claude-code/trouble-shooting.md |
When to use
Use this skill when the user asks about:
- •Installing or configuring Claude Code
- •Creating or managing Skills, hooks, or plugins
- •Setting up MCP servers or custom subagents
- •Deploying to cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- •CLI commands and programmatic usage
How to find information
- •Use Topic Guide to find relevant files
- •Read from
references/{path}