Claude Code is Anthropic's terminal-based coding agent. It reads your codebase, writes and edits files, runs commands, and reports back. It is not a chatbot with a code block. It acts.
The article earns its read in the definitions. Tokens are not just 'words.' Agents are not just 'AI.' MCP, the Model Context Protocol, is the part most designers will skip and should not. Understanding what context windows actually limit changes how you prompt, structure projects, and hand off work to developers.
Designers are increasingly the ones specifying behavior that AI will execute directly. Knowing what Claude Code is doing under the hood, not just what it produces, is the difference between directing a tool and being surprised by one.
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