Claude Code ¶

Claude Code, from Anthropic, is perhaps the most popular agentic coding harness currently. However, it is not really designed to be used with anything other than Anthropic’s own Claude subscriptions.

• Pros: Very popular, actively maintained by a large team at Anthropic. Has many advanced features such as Agent Teams and auto permissions mode.
• Cons: Very poorly vibe-coded: updates often break things; TUI is slow, flickers a lot, and does not support terminal scrollback; extreme token bloat in the system prompts, tool prompts, and feedback to the models; extreme request bloat, in terms of making a lot of requests with the various models you’ve specified as haiku/sonnet/opus alternatives. Requires custom scripts or wrappers to work with anything but Anthropic’s API.