Claude Code

Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding assistant. It runs directly in your terminal and operates as a full autonomous agent — reading files, editing code, running shell commands, executing tests, and iterating until a task is complete.

What Claude Code Can Do

→ Read and understand codebases — Explore files, understand architecture, trace dependencies
→ Write and edit code — Implement features, fix bugs, refactor, write tests
→ Run commands — Execute shell commands, run test suites, build projects
→ Use tools — Call external APIs, search the web, interact with databases
→ Connect via MCP — Use MCP servers like AgentRQ to notify humans and await approval

Claude Code as an Agent

Claude Code follows a perceive-plan-act loop. When you give it a task like "add rate limiting to the API," it will:

Read the relevant source files
Plan the implementation
Write the code
Run tests to verify
Report back — or ask for guidance when needed

This makes it fundamentally different from a code completion tool. Claude Code acts on your codebase autonomously.

Claude Code + AgentRQ

By connecting Claude Code to AgentRQ via MCP, you gain real-time visibility into what your agent is doing. Claude Code agents can:

→ Create tasks on your task board for work they're undertaking
→ Send notifications when they hit a blocking question
→ Wait for your approval before taking risky or irreversible actions
→ Continue autonomously once you've replied

This is human-in-the-loop agent collaboration at the task level.

Getting Started

bash

# Install Claude Code
npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

# Add AgentRQ MCP server to your config
# See: https://agentrq.com/docs/getting-started