Claude Code
Anthropic's agentic coding tool. It reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands and helps you ship faster from the terminal, IDE or desktop.
GitHub Copilot
The AI pair programmer inside GitHub and your editor. Completions, chat, code review and a coding agent that opens pull requests.
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What it is
Copilot meets teams where their code already lives. You can assign an issue to the coding agent and get back a pull request, or ask for a review on any PR.
It works across VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, Xcode and the GitHub website.
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