install claude code

This page does one thing: gets Claude Code onto your computer. It takes about two minutes, and you never need to do it again.

First, the thing that trips everyone up: Claude Code is not the Claude app and not the claude.ai website. Those can only talk. Claude Code lives in your terminal and can actually do things on your computer. The tell: if you've never opened a terminal and typed claude, you don't have it yet.

• 1.Get a Claude account with a paid plan. Pro works. Sign up or upgrade at claude.ai. (The free plan doesn't include Claude Code.)
• 2.Open Terminal: press Cmd+Space, type "terminal", press Return. A window appears where you can type commands. That's the whole trick.
• 3.Paste this and press Return:

copy the install command

curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash

• 4.Type claude and press Return. The first run opens your browser so you can log in with your Claude account. After that, you're in: you're talking to Claude in your terminal, and it can do real work.

That's it. Head back to whatever sent you here and pick up where you left off.

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