[Feature Request] Use non-default VS Code terminal profile to run Claude Code

[jbearak]

The Claude toolbar button and keyboard shortcut open Claude Code using the default terminal profile.

This can add to the time it takes to start Claude Code.

It also precludes having tmux as the default profile.

For this reason, I think it would be useful if users could configure Claude Code to open itself using a different profile.

For the keyboard shortcut (and not the Claude button) one can program this behavior by editing keybindings.json:

{
  "key": "cmd+escape",
  "command": "-claude-code.runClaude.keyboard",
  "when": "claude-code.hasClaudeInPath"
},
{
  "key": "cmd+escape",
  "command": "runCommands",
  "args": {
    "commands": [
      {
        "command": "workbench.action.terminal.newWithProfile",
        "args": {
          "profileName": "Claude"
        }
      },
      "workbench.action.newGroupRight",
      "workbench.action.terminal.moveToEditor",
    ]
  }
}

This keybinding uses to a claude terminal profile specified in settings.json which starts up faster than my default profile:

"Claude": {
  "overrideName": true,
  "path": "/bin/sh",
  "args": ["-c", "claude"],
  "icon": "robot"
}

[blois]

This does look like a nice speed improvement. Looking.

[sixman9]

I installed Claude Code (CC) in both Windsurf and VSCode (latest versions at time of writing). CC-doctor suggested my install should be local, I lost the cmd+escape start up of CC, inside the IDE(s).

I got it working again with the help of the first post), where I did the following (I'm on MacOS btw):

In ~/Library/Application\ Support/Code/User/keybindings.json I added (as per first post)

{
  "key": "cmd+escape",
  "command": "-claude-code.runClaude.keyboard",
  "when": "claude-code.hasClaudeInPath"
},
{
  "key": "cmd+escape",
  "command": "runCommands",
  "args": {
    "commands": [
      {
        "command": "workbench.action.terminal.newWithProfile",
        "args": {
          "profileName": "Claude"
        }
      },
      "workbench.action.newGroupRight",
      "workbench.action.terminal.moveToEditor",
    ]
  }
}

The second part of that post worked like this for me (~/Library/Application\ Support/Code/User/settings.json):

...
"terminal.integrated.profiles.osx": {
    "Claude": {
      "overrideName": true,
      "path": "/bin/sh",
      "args": ["-c", "~/.claude/local/claude"],
      "icon": "robot"
    }
  }
} //EOF

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