Claude Code

By Anthropic · Available on HarnessRouter

Anthropic’s coding agent for understanding codebases, editing files, running commands and tests, and iterating on implementation tasks.

30-day usageAug 14–Sep 12, 2026

Data as of September 13, 2026 · About the data

Rank#2#2 of 21 CLI agents
Tokens17.8T
Requests172.9M

Capabilities and verification

Reviewed against the HarnessRouter capability catalog on August 24, 2026. Every verified row cites its public source; rule-derived rows apply HarnessRouter's published classification rules to documented behavior. A “No public evidence” badge marks a gap in the public record, not a statement that Claude Code lacks them.

Configuration & support

  • Other modelsNo public evidence
  • Custom instructionsDirectly verified
  • SkillsDirectly verified
  • Custom toolsDirectly verified
  • MCPDirectly verified
  • Sandbox & approvalsDirectly verified
  • SessionsDirectly verified
  • SubagentsDirectly verified

Execution & agency

  • Workspace filesDirectly verified
  • Structured actionsDirectly verified

Environment control

  • Browser controlDirectly verified
  • Computer controlDirectly verified

Observation & capture

  • Screen observationDirectly verified
  • Screenshot exportNo public evidence
  • Recording exportDirectly verified

Artifact outputs

  • DocumentsRule-derived
  • SpreadsheetsRule-derived
  • PresentationsRule-derived
  • ImagesRule-derived
  • VideoRule-derived
  • App deploymentNo public evidence

Sources: code.claude.com

Machine interfaces

  • Headless CLI · Stable
  • SDK · Stable

Benchmark evidence

Claude Code configurations from the HarnessRouter Care Prep benchmark, published August 10, 2026. One controlled synthetic-data task; results apply to this test, not universally.

ModelEnd-to-end latencyCost
claude-sonnet-4.61m 31s83.5 credits
claude-opus-4.83m 18s223 credits

Execution success and strict grounding pass rates for these configurations are published in the observed-history capture on the benchmark report.

See the full benchmark report

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