Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode

Posted by davidbarker 11 hours ago

Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode(www.apple.com)

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giancarlostoro 11 hours ago|

My annoyance is that it sounds like I can't just use Claude Code directly in XCode? I like how Zed does it, it's not perfect, but it works really nicely.

CharlesW 8 hours ago|

Xcode is using the Claude Agent SDK, which means that you "get the full power of Claude Code directly in Xcode—including subagents, background tasks, and plugins—all without leaving the IDE¹". I assume that means iOS development plug-ins like Axiom² should work as well.

¹ https://www.anthropic.com/news/apple-xcode-claude-agent-sdk ² https://charleswiltgen.github.io/Axiom/

giancarlostoro 4 hours ago||

But via my Claude Code usage or via the API usage?

cyberax 11 hours ago||

How about adding a horizontal scroll to sidebars? No?

"Agentic this", "agentic that"... It's literally just an LLM in a while() loop with some exposed tools.

SgtBastard 7 hours ago|

Fancy while() loops is how I describe them.

minimaxir 11 hours ago||

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ianhawes 11 hours ago|

> The Claude Agent SDK is a collection of tools that helps developers build powerful agents on top of Claude Code.

https://claude.com/blog/building-agents-with-the-claude-agen...

From September 29, 2025

bigyabai 11 hours ago||

Thanks Apple, but "agentic coding" was already very possible without Xcode supporting it natively. Always gotta get your OKRs, I guess.

wahnfrieden 8 hours ago|

Xcode previews weren’t possible via agents

pjmlp 10 hours ago||

Goodbye CoPilot plugin, yet another platform Microsoft loses on.

https://github.com/github/CopilotForXcode

longtermop 8 hours ago||

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spzb 10 hours ago||

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Oras 10 hours ago|

As MKBHD would say, welcome to 2026, Apple.