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Comment by k2xl | Hacker News Reader

How do you guys plan feature support between the CLI and Claude Desktop?

We generally build features into the Claude Agent SDK, which is shared by CLI, Desktop, VSCode, and cloud.

VSCode has an official client? Given IDE usage is being restricted from Claude Code via the CC SDK tokens going to the Claude API rather than your CC Subscription, i'm unclear which IDEs can actually use claude code now.

Eg is Zed capable of using a Claude Code Subscription?

> is Zed capable of using a Claude Code Subscription?

Yes. Zed connects to Claude Code via ACP.

to be clear, i'm referring to the recent fact where it appears that they're disabling all Claude Code (Subscription) usage from the SDK. Which ACP would be included on.

As usual though it's not super clear exactly what is allowed or not.

Oh, yea here's all the proof you need. Even Zed themselves admit you won't be able to use Claude Code via ACP via Subscription: https://zed.dev/blog/terminal-threads

So yea, bcherny didn't reply to me but as far as i can tell - No, Zed nor VSCode will have Claude Code natively in it. The best we can do is embed a Terminal into the editor and run CC in that.

With that said, because bcherny advertised VSCode, i'm going to guess VSCode is going to get special treatment. Really annoying.

it's confusing that ultracode is not enabled on the desktop though - or at least it isn't clear how to enable

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