Claude for VS Code

This official extension brings Anthropic's Claude models directly into VS Code. It leverages Claude's renowned reasoning capabilities, long context window (up to 200K tokens), and low hallucination rate for coding tasks. It's excellent for analyzing large codebases, writing detailed documentation, planning implementations, and refactoring with a clear understanding of requirements. While it may lack some of the deep, automated integration of other assistants, it compensates with superior analytical and explanatory power.

It targets developers who prioritize clear reasoning, thoroughness, and working with large files or complex architectural decisions, making it a strong choice for senior developers and architects.