ClaudeCodeExtension

Claude Code Extension for Visual Studio

Please also check Claude Code Studio from wluisdev

Native chat or terminal inside Visual Studio for the best AI coding agents on the market: Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor Agent, Open Code, Devin, PI, Google Antigravity, Reasonix, Qwen Code, and Grok — with custom actions, automations when AI finish work, github issues fix automations, integrated diff viewer and much more.

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Mentioned in Awesome Codex CLI

Features

- Native mode (default for new installs) — Show the conversation as a chat in its own document tab instead of an embedded terminal: answers arrive as formatted text, file edits open into a colored diff, and each turn ends with how long it took, what it cost, and (for Claude Code) your status line if you have one. The tab has its own message box with image paste and file attachments, plus agent, model, effort and permission selectors you can change mid-conversation. Turn off via *⚙ → Settings... → Terminal* to use the embedded terminal instead; Reasonix and any agent that can't run this way keep using the terminal.

- Embedded AI terminal — Run any supported AI coding agent inside a Visual Studio tool window. Auto-detects the solution directory; restarts when you switch solutions. Optionally use Windows Terminal instead of Command Prompt for better emoji/Unicode rendering.

- Multi-line prompts — Press Enter to send, Shift+Enter or Ctrl+Enter for a new line. To send with Ctrl+Enter instead, or to use a Send button, change the send key in *⚙ → Settings... → Prompt*.

- File and image attachments — Paste images with Ctrl+V, drag &…