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Command reference

claude[query]

Starts an interactive session in the current directory, with an optional first prompt.

Terminal commandsSession and conversationcurrent

What the documentation does not say

Everything else on this page is this same command plus a subcommand or a flag. A mistyped subcommand does not silently become a prompt: Claude Code suggests the closest match and exits, so claude udpate prints a suggestion instead of starting a session about updates.

Arguments
[query]