Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

Posted by meetpateltech 9/3/2025

Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed(zed.dev)

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malshe 9/3/2025|

This might come off as a naive question so pardon me in advance for my ignorance. I got Claude Max just last week and I have been using it in the MacOS Terminal app. I also used it in Zed and VS Code terminals and faced no issues. So what is the advantage of using it natively like this?

andruby 9/3/2025||

The post has a video included. More integrated interface seems useful.

trenchpilgrim 9/3/2025|||

You get a diff view of the edits CC is making to your project and there's a mode where you editor's focus follows where CC is editing in your project.

CharlesW 9/3/2025|||

BTW, you get this in VS Code, too. https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/ide-integrati...

malshe 9/3/2025|||

Thanks. Diff view sounds useful

kridsdale3 9/3/2025||

If you're going to live in the terminal, please do yourself a favor and replace Terminal.app with iTerm2, and replace bash with zsh.

chillfox 9/4/2025|||

Kitty is much better than iTerm2 and while zsh is fantastic, fish is much easier to get started with and also very good.

iyn 9/3/2025||||

> and replace bash with zsh

I highly recommend trying fish, I wish I’ve switched earlier

TheRoque 9/3/2025||

+1 to fish, just efficient out of the box

trenchpilgrim 9/4/2025|||

iTerm2 is what we were using last month, now it's all about Kitty and Ghostty!

skeptrune 9/3/2025||

It's interesting that VSCode has its own Claude code extension which works well and does most of this.

Zed has a lot of these micro-battles ahead where it has to spend money building solutions that VSCode's community shipped without their core team putting in any effort at all.

mikaylamaki 9/3/2025||

Actually, Anthropic built that integration themselves.

josefrichter 9/3/2025||

Does it? Or do you mean the integration when you run Claude Code from the terminal opened in VSCode? (which is already pretty good)

skeptrune 9/3/2025||

It does, there's an extension you can install which is even a bit better.

jackhuman 9/3/2025||

Zed has really good vim bindings + mix of native shortcuts making a powerful workflow. The window management keyboard shortcuts are great and is the main reason I switched from some vscode use. Its kind of what I wanted neovim + tmux to be with less work and setup.

Zed doesn’t have file delete undo and I found the AI autocomplete to be so bad I had to turn it off. I still use vscode for work. Zed is kind of in a purgatory state where its lacking in way to be a main for many folks but its close. Just the AI focus is sadly the best way for it to keep investments going, but are really not the top things I think Zed needs.

phist_mcgee 9/3/2025|

I wish it natively supported vimrc, I dislike having to rewrite all my bindings in zed format.

dang 9/3/2025||

Recent and related:

Agent Client Protocol (ACP) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45074147 - Aug 2025 (93 comments)

Yhippa 9/3/2025||

Naive question: is using Claude Code from the command line or in these tools like VSC or Zed different from using it in the native app on a desktop? Is that because it has access to your codebase?

dostick 9/3/2025|||

After having troubles with Claude desktop not properly updating canvas document, I found that apparently Claude Code is same as desktop one plus you can use it not just for code but documents in VS Code.

josefrichter 9/3/2025|||

In Elixir/Rails (and newly React) world you can connect Clade Desktop to Tidewave, which gives you pretty close integration with codebase and CLI tools. That makes the experience somewhat similar to running Claude Code in editor's terminal, or now directly connected in Zed.

I think basically all these tools are trying to integrate all the stuff together and find the best way to do that, so that you don't need to be copy-pasting stuff around, jumping between tools, etc.

ascorbic 9/3/2025|||

Not tried with Zed yet, but in VS Code it's mostly the same except you can view the diffs in the editor, and can give context from the open file. I think it can also see errors from the editor.

james_marks 9/3/2025||

Not just your codebase, but also a wide range of *nix tooling. Night and day to working on the CLI vs an IDE.

pandemic_region 9/3/2025||

I wish the release notes of Zed would contain less AI.*, and more focus on getting the core editor capabilities completed. I'm a fan though, don't get me wrong.

petcat 9/3/2025|

They've been chasing nothing but AI crap for months. Maybe a year. They've stopped improving the core editor completely.

I'm getting ready to just switch back to Sublime Text

reboot7417 9/4/2025||

Maybe I'm missing something but Zed is asking me to either login via claude /login or use the Anthropic API key.

How do I configure it with Base API URL?

deevus 9/4/2025||

Immediately crashed for me on Arch Linux. Possibly related to whatever is causing this crash: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/37247

I've been seeing a lot of crashes of late

yonisto 9/3/2025|

I know it is not popular around here, but until Zed gets a windows version:

Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead

audunw 9/3/2025|

There is a Windows version if you're willing to use unofficial builds. I've been using it successfully for a few weeks. There's a few more rough corners than in the official Mac/Linux version, but it's usable.

yonisto 9/3/2025||

Thanks. I might once I'll be in a mood to get frustrated by rough corners :-)

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