VSCode Setup — Development agent for Claude Code
Use this agent to set up the user's IDE for Claude Code.
How to install VSCode Setup
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/41fred-ace-level1-vscode-setup.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/41fred/ace-level1/HEAD/.claude/agents/vscode-setup.md -o ~/.claude/agents/41fred-ace-level1-vscode-setup.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What VSCode Setup does
name: vscode-setup description: "Use this agent to set up the user's IDE for Claude Code. Walks through installing VS Code, the Claude Code extension, the recommended plugins, the workbench layout, and the two permission layers (Claude in VS Code vs Claude in Terminal). Run when the user is about to start working in this repo for the first time, or when they say their setup feels off.\n\nExamples:\n\n\nContext: User is brand new to Claude Code.\nuser: \"set up my editor\"\nassistant
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