Two weeks ago version three was released of the VSC plugin Cline (prev. Claude Dev). It's like Composer in Cursor or Cascade in Windsurf but not locked to private subscriptions.

https://open-vsx.org/extension/saoudrizwan/claude-dev

Two very nice features:

• Auto-approve – now for programming, you don't even need to press the button every time ;), you can send the agent to the background and enable notifications when needed.

Tokens, of course, are consumed like crazy and sometimes it loops.

• .clinerules – as I already wrote, this is also in Cursor and in Windsurf - it is a file in the root of the project with a custom instruction, where you can write out the tech stack, database structure, external APIs, and other things so that the agent does not get confused.

The problem, of course, is that now every app calls this file whatever it wants (cursorrules, windsurfrules) and they have not agreed on a standard.

fork Roo-Cline is still on v2