Claude Code in Visual Studio 2026: 5 Ways to Run It Today
Originally published at WowHow As of November 2, 2026, Anthropic does not ship a Claude Code extension for Visual Studio 2026. The official docs cover VS Code, Cursor and JetBrains IDEs, and tell users of other editors to run the claude CLI in their editor's integrated terminal. [1] [12] The GitHub feature request for a native Visual Studio 2026 extension, issue #15942, has been open since January 1, 2026 and had 480 thumbs-up reactions when we read it. None of the comments GitHub displays without expanding the thread comes from Anthropic staff. [2] That leaves five ways to run it today: the CLI in Visual Studio's terminal with a plain-text workflow, or one of four community extensions linked in that thread. Two of them, firish's and cv4vs Agents, connect the CLI to Visual Studio over the same IDE channel the official VS Code extension uses; dliedke's and nachum-shmilovitz-66's drive the CLI their own way. [3] [11] This post compares all five, shows the setup...