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Claude Code

Anthropic's agentic coding tool for terminal, IDE, desktop, and browser. Reads the repo, edits files, runs commands, and connects MCP, skills, and hooks.

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15900000DR: 95AS: 94

Codex CLI

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OpenAI's terminal coding agent: inspect the local repo, edit files, run tools, review diffs, and automate with codex exec. Billed through ChatGPT plans.

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5000000DR: 98AS: 99

Claude Skills

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Claude Code skills are SKILL.md packages that extend the agent on demand. Custom slash commands merged into skills; follows the Agent Skills standard.

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15900000DR: 95AS: 94