Claude Code for State and Local Governments

A live, demo-first session on how SLED IT and digital services teams are using Claude Code to understand and safely change legacy systems — and ship new constituent-facing services in days instead of quarters.

State and local agencies don’t have a shortage of engineering work — they have a shortage of engineers who understand the systems they inherited. Benefits eligibility on COBOL. Permitting on aging .NET. Tax and DMV systems whose original authors retired two budget cycles ago. Every mandated rule change is a risk because nobody’s sure what else it touches.

And the same teams are on the hook for new digital services — online applications, status portals, public dashboards — that sit in the backlog while the legacy estate absorbs every available hour.

Anthropic is here to help. Claude Code is Anthropic’s agentic coding tool. It runs in your developer’s terminal, works directly on the repo in front of them, and handles the multi-step engineering work that normally takes a sprint: read and explain an undocumented system, generate the missing tests, make a targeted change with confidence, or scaffold a new service end-to-end.

This session shows the solutions live. We’ll give a brief overview of Claude Code and how State and Local governments are deploying it against real use-cases. Next, we’ll highlight a two part demo that showcases policy change and modernization assessment on a real benefits app. Last we’ll open the floor for your questions.