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Clawdius is a Claude-Code-native fork of VS Code (Code-OSS): the familiar editor with Claude Code built in as the default assistant, no GitHub or Copilot account, and a privacy-first, zero-egress posture. This release rebases onto VS Code 1.126.0 and adds a large batch of Claude-native features, UI polish, and privacy hardening since Clawdius 1.125.0.

Native Claude Code experience

  • First launch now installs and configures the official Claude Code chat plugin for you, shown in a dismissible startup card with progress and animated artwork instead of a silent background setup. It can also install the optional Remote - SSH and Remote - WSL extensions so you can start on remote machines right away.
  • Clawdius detects a Claude Code you already have installed (its native binary, or claude on your PATH) and runs that engine instead of the bundled copy, so the available models and behavior track your own self-updating install. Detection is a local file check with no network calls, and you can turn it off or pin a specific engine in Settings.
  • The new Control Center is a tabbed manager for your Claude Code setup: Usage, Permissions, MCP servers, Skills, Plugins, and Hooks. It opens from the bottom-left button, now labeled and iconed as the Claude Code Control Center instead of a generic Accounts menu. The Skills tab groups plugin-provided skills under collapsible per-plugin headings and marks them read-only, keeping them separate from your own skills.
  • Live MCP tool discovery: when you add a permission rule in the Control Center, a new action briefly connects to a configured MCP server and lists the tools it actually offers, so you can allow or deny a tool by name instead of typing it blind. Clawdius connects only when you ask, never automatically in the background.

Claude in the editor

  • Every editor's title bar gains three Claude actions: Open Chat (reveal the chat side panel), New Session (a fresh Claude chat tab), and New Terminal (a terminal running Claude), each with a custom Claude icon that follows your light or dark theme. The top-bar chat toggle uses the same icon.
  • A new model widget in the status bar, next to the effort selector, shows the default Claude model for new chats and lets you switch versions in one click, including the extended 1M-context variants.
  • The Claude Code usage indicator and dashboard are built entirely from data already on your machine. They reflect your real session history and now work the same way in remote WSL and SSH windows.
  • A new setting hides all of Clawdius's Claude status-bar widgets at once (effort level, model, permission mode, context budget, and usage). It applies immediately with no reload, and the prompt to install the Claude Code plugin still appears.
  • The permission-mode and context-budget indicators now carry their own text and background colors, so they stay readable under themes that restyle only the background. The usage capacity bar also got a higher-contrast fill.

Extensions and remote

  • The Claude Code plugin can no longer be uninstalled by accident. The extension Clawdius depends on stays installed whether you remove it from the Extensions view, the command line, or as part of an extension pack.
  • Clawdius refuses to install AI-assistant extensions that would conflict with its built-in Claude Code, such as GitHub Copilot, whether the extension comes from the gallery, a local VSIX file, or Settings Sync.
  • Claude Code now works over remote connections (SSH, WSL, and tunnels). Clawdius installs the plugin on the remote server as well as locally, and remote sessions start Claude Code rather than an assistant that is not available there.

Branding and themes

  • More of the interface reads "Clawdius": the open-window action, the Voice Mode confirmation buttons, and their command-palette entries now say "Open in Clawdius."
  • A new Disable animations setting swaps the animated Clawd artwork on the empty-editor screen and the Control Center header for static stills.

Privacy and zero-egress

  • Telemetry stays completely off, and this release closes a tracing hook that newer upstream code added outside the normal telemetry switch. Left in place, it could have sent Claude prompt and response traces to an external collector if one was configured in your environment, even with telemetry off. Clawdius disables it in both local and remote sessions and removes those tracing variables from the Claude process, so no diagnostic data leaves your machine.
  • The usage dashboard makes no network calls. The only outbound request is a single check of your Claude subscription capacity, made only when you open the usage view.

Upstream: rebased onto VS Code 1.126.0

  • Clawdius now sits on VS Code 1.126.0, so you get that release's editor and platform improvements, with the Claude-native experience and privacy protections carried over unchanged.
  • GitHub Copilot surfaces stay excluded, including ones newly added upstream: Copilot sign-in prompts, Copilot chat, and Copilot CLI session types.
  • The new agent-host trace exporter that upstream added is gated off for zero egress (see Privacy and zero-egress above).
  • The upstream "MCP Servers" and "Agent Plugins" sections are hidden from the Extensions view, since Clawdius manages both in its own Control Center.

Signed builds for Windows (x64 and arm64), macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon), and Linux (x64 and arm64) are attached below, each with an entry in SHA256SUMS.

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