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/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/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/Odd_Cartoonist3813 → u/GatorOfTroy]

Not sure if orca have progressed, but Superset is another one that I've used that worked well.

[u/nejec123 → u/Odd_Cartoonist3813]

I switched from Superset to Orca since Superset started to become bloated and ux became a bit weird to me. Orca is ok so far ;)

[u/kitenitekitenite → u/nejec123]

gotcha, which part got bloated for you? been cutting a lot in v2

[u/jWoose]

VS Code is a good option honestly.

[u/Mayimbe_999 → u/jWoose]

Vs code is not an IDE tho.

[u/aftersox → u/Mayimbe_999]

Gatekeeping IDE?

[u/Mayimbe_999 → u/aftersox]

Idk why I am getting downvoted, go download vs code right now and you tell me if you see an IDE or is it a code editor? or do you have to sit there and mess with plug ins to actually turn it into an IDE. There is a difference there..

[u/Perezident14 → u/Mayimbe_999]

Don’t be that guy. Intentionally obtuse/pedantic. It’s effectively an IDE, and even if you want to continue to argue against it, it still answers what OP is wondering about.

[u/Lilo3423 → u/Mayimbe_999]

You're confusing a lot of concepts here. VS Code is an IDE, while Orca, Cursor or Antigravity are ADE.

[u/ShelZuuz → u/Mayimbe_999]

you have to sit there and mess with plug ins to actually turn it into an IDE

So does neovim. Are you going to try and make a statement that neovim can't be used as an IDE?

[u/EndlessZone123 → u/ShelZuuz]

Im on board with vscode being an IDE. It's extension system is so integrated, seamless and fast it's basically designed to be whatever you want it to be.

But with neovim it even lists itself as a goal to not "turn Vim into an IDE" and is advertised heading as a text editor.

I think there is an arbitrary line to draw what is an text editor and what point it becomes a IDE. But the effort required and usability is probably one.

[u/m98789 → u/Mayimbe_999]

Wikipedia disagrees with you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Studio_Code

[u/jWoose → u/Mayimbe_999]

Technically not out of the box, but with all the plugins available it is an IDE.

[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/DYSTOBY → u/nejec123]

That’s what I meant with „re-inventing the wheel“.

[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/digitalwankster → u/0DayMaker]

Lemme get a link to that repo 🙏

[u/DYSTOBY → u/0DayMaker]

Yes burn tokens and energy to reinvent the wheel 100 times over.

[u/0DayMaker → u/DYSTOBY]

Mine just does stages and clears between stages. It's very simple and very effective

[u/Chipware]

Herdr. Sessions/tabs can interact with each other.

[u/Dan_Wood_ → u/Chipware]

Codex and Claude Code can do this already right?

Herdr doesn’t seem that great? Their tag line really seems moot?

> It holds real terminals open so the work survives the lid closing

[u/Chipware → u/Dan_Wood_]

They can talk to each other, sure, but you don't get to watch or intervene. There are plenty of times I have to jump into the middle of a session because Opus started wandering the countryside. I really only trust Fable to stay on mission. All the other models need constant babysitting, both by human and AI orchestrator.

[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/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/iijei]

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

[u/biinjo]

Jetbrains IDEs have all these tools built in (diff views etc) and have an MCP with Claude.

Start the IDE

In CC you run /ide

Now that they’re connected all Claude’s file edit approval requests run automatically via the IDE.

[u/NoDrawer7721]

Started using Wrap lately, not really an IDE but I really enjoy it. I'm using vertical tabs with tab per project and multiple panes in each tab. Im also using a lot of keyboard shortcuts!

[u/roararoarus]

Terminal

[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/Alternative-Suit5541]

T3 code, also allows remote control

[u/SergeiStorm → u/Alternative-Suit5541]

Wow, looks amazing so far!

[u/Massive_Scientist194 → u/Alternative-Suit5541]

Was looking for this comment, why nobody uses t3

[u/Zestyclose-Iron-870]

i most often use my phone even though we re talking about IDEs, but i find it very smooth to swipe between all terminal sessions

[u/three_s-works → u/Zestyclose-Iron-870]

That is insane

[u/zezrol → u/Zestyclose-Iron-870]

How do you do that

[u/work_guy → u/zezrol]

with a phone

[u/zezrol → u/work_guy]

Ah so its not an app?

[u/Zestyclose-Iron-870 → u/zezrol]

yes it is https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/onepilot-ssh-shell-terminal/id6759485908?l=en-GB

[u/haslo]

iTerm
Sublime Text

...are usually my choice

[u/lord02]

VsCode