---
id: "entity-claude"
type: "entity"
entityType: "product"
canonicalName: "Claude"
aliases: ["Anthropic Claude"]
source_timestamps: ["00:00:04", "00:00:36"]
tags: ["llm", "anthropic", "ai-platform"]
related: ["concept-claude-skills", "concept-claude-projects", "concept-higgsfield-mcp"]
canonicalUrl: "https://www.anthropic.com/claude"
---
# Claude

## Description

**Claude** is the family of large language models from Anthropic, accessible via web app and API. In this video Claude is used not as a chatbot but as an **orchestration engine** that hosts persistent context via [[concept-claude-projects]] and invokes reusable tools via [[concept-claude-skills]].

## Relevant features

- **Projects** — persistent workspaces with attached documents and brand context. See [[concept-claude-projects]] and [[prereq-claude-projects-knowledge]].
- **Skills** — text-file-defined reusable instruction sets. See [[concept-claude-skills]] and [[framework-skill-anatomy]].
- **Custom Connectors / MCP** — protocol for plugging in external services (image generators, APIs, databases). See [[concept-higgsfield-mcp]] and [[action-install-higgsfield-mcp]].

## Contrast with ChatGPT

Alex frames [[entity-chatgpt]] as the prototype of the "vending machine" usage pattern (see [[claim-vending-machine-usage]]). Claude is presented as architecturally better-suited to the systems-based approach because of Projects, Skills, and MCP.