India, Feb. 4 -- Apple has introduced an update to Xcode, its integrated development environment (IDE), that incorporates autonomous-agentic coding features. This update allows developers to use Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's latest coding models directly within the software. The move shifts Xcode from a tool that merely suggests code snippets to one that can plan and execute complex engineering tasks across an entire project.

While previous versions of Xcode used basic machine learning for code completion, the 2026 update introduces agents capable of reasoning. Unlike standard chatbots, these agents can access the local file system, run tests, and debug errors without constant human prompts.

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