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Dive into Claude Code: The Design Space of Today’s and Future AI Agent Systems

2026

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1) This paper provides a deep dive into the architecture of Claude Code, an AI coding agent, offering insights into its design principles and how it addresses recurring challenges in AI agent systems.
2) * Explores the design space of AI agent systems by analyzing Claude Code's architecture, identifying five core human values and thirteen design principles.
* Compares Claude Code's design with OpenClaw, another AI agent system, to highlight how deployment context influences architectural choices.
* Identifies six open directions for future AI agent systems, grounded in empirical, architectural, and policy literature.
3) AI agents, Claude Code, architecture, design principles, AI systems

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