All notable changes to the "claude-dev" extension will be documented in this file.
- Claude's changes now appear in your file's Timeline, allowing you to easily view a diff of each edit. This is especially helpful if you want to revert to a previous version. No need for git—everything is tracked by VSCode's local history!
- Updated system prompt to keep Claude from re-reading files unnecessarily
- Adds support for OpenAI compatible API providers (e.g. Ollama!)
- New terminal emulator! When Claude runs commands, you can now type directly in the terminal (+ support for Python environments)
- Adds search to Task History
- You can now edit Claude's changes before accepting! When he edits or creates a file, you can modify his changes directly in the right side of the diff view (+ hover over the 'Revert Block' arrow button in the center to undo
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shenanigans)
- Adds support for reading .pdf and .docx files (try "turn my business_plan.docx into a company website")
- Adds new
search_files
tool that lets Claude perform regex searches in your project, making it easy for him to refactor code, address TODOs and FIXMEs, remove dead code, and more!
- Adds "Always allow read-only operations" setting to let Claude read files and view directories without needing approval (off by default)
- Implement sliding window context management to keep tasks going past 200k tokens
- Adds Google Cloud Vertex AI support and updates Claude 3.5 Sonnet max output to 8192 tokens for all providers.
- Improves system prompt to gaurd against lazy edits (less "//rest of code here")
- Adds task history
- Adds support for Prompt Caching to significantly reduce costs and response times (currently only available through Anthropic API for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.0 Haiku)
- Adds option to choose other Claude models (+ GPT-4o, DeepSeek, and Mistral if you use OpenRouter)
- Adds option to add custom instructions to the end of the system prompt
- Paste images in chat to use Claude's vision capabilities and turn mockups into fully functional applications or fix bugs with screenshots
- Add support for OpenRouter and AWS Bedrock
- Shows diff view of new or edited files right in the editor
- Replace
list_files
andanalyze_project
with more explicitlist_files_top_level
,list_files_recursive
, andview_source_code_definitions_top_level
to get source code definitions only for files relevant to the task
- Interact with CLI commands by sending messages to stdin and terminating long-running processes like servers
- Export tasks to markdown files (useful as context for future tasks)
- Claude now has context about vscode's visible editors and opened tabs
- Open in the editor (using menu bar or
Claude Dev: Open In New Tab
in command palette) to see how Claude updates your workspace more clearly - New
analyze_project
tool to help Claude get a comprehensive overview of your project's source code definitions and file structure - Provide feedback to tool use like terminal commands and file edits
- Updated max output tokens to 8192 so less lazy coding (
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) - Added ability to retry failed API requests (helpful for rate limits)
- Quality of life improvements like markdown rendering, memory optimizations, better theme support
- Initial release