Claude Code for Visual Studio (native diff with accept/reject)
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VS Code and JetBrains have official Claude Code IDE integration, but Visual Studio doesn't. There's an open GitHub issue with a lot of +1s so I built it myself (check out the gif in the GitHub repo for a visual example).It implements the same protocol the official plugins use, so the Claude CLI connects to it automatically. You don't configure anything, just install the extension and click Launch.The main thing it adds over running Claude in a terminal is that edits open in Visual Studio's native diff viewer instead of auto-applying or prompting you in the terminal. You click Accept or Reject right there. You can also reject with a reason, and Claude will take another pass.It also shares your compiler errors (C# and C++) and your current selection with the CLI automatically, so Claude has context without you having to copy-paste anything.A few other things: - There's a dockable panel with connection status and token/cost stats for the session - A "run wild" toggle to auto-accept edits without opening the diff Works with the existing claude CLI, no model calls of its ownMarketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=firish.b...GitHub: https://github.com/firish/claude_code_vs
HN · launched Jun 15, 2026 · 20 upvotes (top 25%) · 0 views
Niche: ai coding assistants · 151 launches, 7 in the last 7 days ▼ -22% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes This is a Visual Studio extension implementing a documented CLI communication protocol and using standard Visual Studio diff/editor APIs.
Discussion
8 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: VS Code official Anthropic extension, JetBrains official Anthropic extension, Antigravity IDE
Concerns raised: Claude IDE protocol is undocumented and reverse-engineered, Risk of contract drift with no guaranteed spec, Edge cases in implementation
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 752 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #258 of 753 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 227 days after the earliest competitor.
- claude-code-vscode.github.io · github · 2026-09-21 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.59
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- I built a tool to un-dumb Claude Code's CLI output (Local Log Viewer) · hn · 2026-02-13 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Open-agent-SDK · hn · 2026-04-02 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Simple plugin to get Claude Code to listen to you · hn · 2026-03-13 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- ESP32 Claude Code Monitor · ph · 2026-09-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Computer Use in Claude Code · ph · 2026-03-31 · 442 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- 1Code · hn · 2026-01-15 · 75 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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