Claude Code for VSCode (June 2025)

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Anthropic officially released the Claude Code for VSCode extension on June 19, 2025. This extension integrates Anthropic’s AI coding assistant Claude directly into Visual Studio Code, allowing developers to leverage Claude’s advanced reasoning and code generation capabilities inside their IDE.

The extension requires VS Code version 1.98.0 or later and supports features such as:

  • Automatically adding selected text in the editor to Claude’s context for more accurate suggestions.
  • Displaying code changes directly in VS Code’s diff viewer instead of the terminal.
  • Keyboard shortcuts to push selected code to Claude prompts.
  • Awareness of open tabs/files in the editor.

However, Windows is not natively supported yet; Windows users need to run it via WSL or similar workarounds.

  • Anthropic recently announced new features for Claude Code users (June 18, 2025), enhancing AI-powered coding with improved code generation, debugging, and integrations, positioning Claude Code as a leading enterprise AI coding platform7.
  • There is a known bug reported (June 18, 2025) where the “Fix with Claude Code” action in VSCode does not apply code edits as expected. This issue is under investigation4.
  • A security advisory was issued on June 23, 2025, for Claude Code IDE extensions including the VSCode plugin. Versions below 1.0.24 are vulnerable to unauthorized websocket connections that could expose files, open tabs, and selection events. Users are urged to update to version 1.0.24 or later to mitigate this risk8.
  • The March 2025 VS Code update (v1.99) introduced “Agent mode,” which can be extended with Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, potentially complementing AI coding assistants like Claude Code
  • Anthropic’s Claude Code now supports background tasks via GitHub Actions and native integrations with VS Code and JetBrains, displaying edits directly in files for seamless pair programming. The latest Claude 4 models power these capabilities, offering advanced coding and reasoning.

Claude Code for VSCode is a newly released, actively developed AI coding assistant extension that integrates deeply with VS Code, offering advanced AI coding features but still maturing with some bugs and security patches being addressed. It significantly enhances developer productivity by embedding Claude’s AI capabilities directly into the IDE workflow

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