Alternatives of Claude Code : CoPilot, Cursor, Windsurf

Installation

Choose the right installation for the OS from https://code.claude.com/docs

Using Claude Code

Upgrade to pro plan to use it in VS Code

Open VS and open terminal inside of VS.

claude
/login

Some commands

/terminal-setup

it installs Shift+enter to write multi line commands

Ctrl + L clear the command

commit

it creates a git add and git commit with a meaningful commit message

/init Creates CLAUDE.md file