Anthropic CLI for Claude: Run the API from Your Terminal & Manage Cloud Agents

The script explains the newly launched CLI for Claude as a powerful, simpler way to use the Claude API from the terminal to run requests, test prompts, and manage cloud-based AI agents without writing code. It contrasts chat-based Claude usage with API-driven automation for businesses, using examples like customer support auto-replies, document summarization, and overnight pattern-finding across company files. It shows how the CLI enables piping outputs into other terminal tools, uploading files for cloud agents, tracing sessions step-by-step, exploring models, and listing managed agents, sessions, and uploaded files in one place instead of clicking through the console. It also clarifies that Claude Code “builds” tools while the CLI “runs” API requests, and they work together in an agent operating system setup with agents like research, support triage, code review, and SEO strategy.

00:00 Claude CLI Launch
00:40 Chat vs API Explained
01:33 Why Businesses Need API
02:16 ANSI CLI Basics
02:43 Real World Use Cases
03:36 CLI vs Claude Code
04:16 Files Traces Cloud Agents
05:20 Agent OS CLI Demo
06:27 SEO Agent Example
06:52 Wrap Up and Offer