[Feature Request] Automatically detect and connect to IDE

[liaolunhui]

Feature Request Automatically detect and connect to IDE

Why? Always forget to connect IDE until it show code diff in the command line output which is difficult to review.

Thank you for considering this feature!

[hackyon-anthropic]

hey @liaolunhui, we added this feature last week! Please update to the latest version and try it out.

Once you're connected to an IDE, there should be an Auto-connect to IDE option in /config. You can also run claude with the claude --ide flag as well to trigger this.

Note that it will only auto-connect if there is one matching IDE (if you have multiple IDEs opened, the auto-connection might not happen).

[BuckAMayzing]

@hackyon-anthropic - this doesn't appear to be respected.

Firstly, I had to manually add it to settings.json. I hope I got the name right, because there doesn't seem to be a way for me to know. The setting didn't show up in /config until I added it to the settings file, so I have to assume I got it right. The docs do not mention this setting.

Secondly, even though it's showing false in my settings, running claude with no arguments still fires the auto-connect, disconnecting my other instance. I want to keep a single instance with IDE connection running while running other instances without it. That doesn't appear to work. It's worth noting that I'm running these instances in the VSCode terminal, but I do need to be able to say "hands off my IDE" when starting Claude from within the VSCode terminal, particularly because each new instance hijacks the current holder of the IDE connection, causing it to be lost. It makes it quite frustrating to start a new session for a small task, as it causes the current instance to lose it's connection, requiring an /exit and claude /resume

My settings.json:

{
  "model": "sonnet",
  "autoConnectToIde": false
}

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