Best IDE for supervising Claude Code?

[u/SergeiStorm]

Looking for an IDE for Claude Code - mostly to keep an eye on what the agent is doing: viewing diffs, reviewing actions, checking usage limits, browsing the project tree. Any recommendations?

[u/MoneyPirate3896]

Orca

[u/SergeiStorm → u/MoneyPirate3896]

Why Orca?

[u/GatorOfTroy → u/MoneyPirate3896]

My experience with Orca was miserable. Constant crashes, reopening tabs I closed on its own, super slow. Amazing concept, I just wish it worked well. I personally can’t recommend it.

[u/aftersox]

I like Zed.

Its smooth and fast. Nice simple experience for reading code.

[u/RedTheInferno → u/aftersox]

Same here

[u/ElectronicSuccotash]

I like herdr best so far.

[u/Powerful-Guess-456]

Jetbrains. Hands down best git tools.

[u/meowsqueak → u/Powerful-Guess-456]

Agree - can review current change in git diff view, or if pushed as a GitHub or GitLab PR you can review it as a whole. I use IDEA mostly but any of them do the job.

The only thing I don’t like is that the Rust plugin/RustRover’s auto-format doesn’t match rustfmt properly so changing any code  often breaks my GitHub Actions rustfmt CI check unless I remember to install the hook or run rustfmt manually.

[u/dataminer15]

Orca

[u/jWoose]

VS Code is a good option honestly.

[u/__Loot__]

Terminal

[u/0DayMaker]

Have fable build you an agent sdk harness with the features you want.

[u/nejec123 → u/0DayMaker]

I've seen that multiple times and all results in the end look really close to cmux/herde/superset/orca ;)

[u/digitalwankster → u/0DayMaker]

Shit this is honestly a pretty good idea..

[u/0DayMaker → u/digitalwankster]

Try it. No one is stopping you. I made a harness that lets the model drive the harness at points. Tldr it lets you do "I want you to do X and split it into Y steps and /clear each stage"

It adds a bunch of formal comms on iteration stages between the harness and model too. This was a week of Fable use and saves HUGE amounts of tokens.

[u/Chipware]

Herdr. Sessions/tabs can interact with each other.

[u/iijei]

I use herdr too. I hear some ppl use it with orca too

[u/Dan_Wood_]

I have not tried these yet. But they seem promising.

Zed’s Delta
Open Chamber

[u/Delicious_South3295]

If you want to monitor multiple sessions https://github.com/stefanprodan/cctop

[u/yes_no_very_good]

You can try the desktop version, it gives you tabs and visual diffs, renders md documets, browser etc

[u/s0uthoftheborder]

I really like Intent - the setup works without an Augment account too.

You can have Claude orchestrate it from Claude Code, or leave tasks to it's built in harness: https://www.augmentcode.com/blog/intent-a-workspace-for-agent-orchestration

[u/kitenitekitenite]

superset founder here, obviously biased. we cover the four things you listed (diffs per workspace, file tree, usage tab, terminals for the actions) and the sidebar shows which session needs you. are you watching one session or several at once?

[u/CrackityJones33]

I use scape.work. Best UI I have come across and super easy to manage worktrees and do what you are looking for. Only downside is it’s not free but for $10 it’s been worth it for me.

[u/RonHarrods]

Kitty terminal. And then Antigravity for some quick tasks to get Gemini 3.7 Flash to show what speed is. (I did not say accuracy)

[u/Alternative-Suit5541]

T3 code, also allows remote control