anthropic.claude-code

Claude Code Manager and the official extension

They do different jobs. Anthropic's extension is where you talk to Claude. Claude Code Manager is a sidebar for everything Claude Code leaves on your disk. Most people who install one keep both.

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The short version

Anthropic's Claude Code extension is Claude Code inside VS Code: you chat, review diffs, approve plans and run sessions there. Claude Code Manager doesn't talk to Claude at all. It's a sidebar for the files Claude Code leaves on your machine — every session, prompt, file backup, setting, skill and login — across the CLI and the extension. Install the official one to use Claude Code; add this one to manage what accumulates.

Side by side

Job	Official Claude Code extension	Claude Code Manager
Chat with Claude, review diffs, plan mode	Yes — this is what it's for	No. It opens sessions in the official chat or a terminal.
Past sessions	Session history with keyword search and resume	Every session from the CLI and the extension in one list, full-transcript search, project and git branch filters, fork, export and import
Usage and limits	`/usage` opens an Account & usage dialog with plan limit bars	Usage by model, project, tool and MCP server, a heatmap, and 5-hour and weekly limits in the status bar
More than one Claude account	Sign out and in (Anthropic also documents one config folder per account)	Saved profiles you switch between without `/logout`
MCP servers, hooks, commands, plugins	A Customize section lists them; hooks can be added, edited and removed	Tabs for each, showing every config file a server or hook comes from, with on/off switches
File backups (checkpoints)	`/rewind` inside a session	Diff and restore any saved version of a file, any time
Memory	The Customize section includes memory	Read, search and prune auto-memory files per project, with broken-link and orphan checks
Prompt history	—	Search every prompt you've typed, across projects
Settings safety net	—	A snapshot before every settings change, with restore
Made by	Anthropic	An independent developer, Apache-2.0

Official extension features from Anthropic's VS Code docs, read 2026-10-11. A dash means the docs don't describe it, not that it can't be done some other way.

How they work together

Resume into the chat. With sessions.resumeIn on auto, a session started in the official extension reopens there; one from the CLI reopens in a terminal.
Launch a skill or command into the chat from the Skills and Commands tabs.
Sit side by side. On VS Code 1.106 or later, you can move Claude Code Manager to the secondary sidebar, next to the Claude Code panel.

Free, open source, and it stays on your machine.

Apache-2.0. No telemetry, no account, no network client. Works with the Claude Code CLI and the official extension.