# Pick an editor

A step of the [Bootstrapping an environment](https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/bootstrapping) tree on Gradus, in the Tools area: git, Claude Code, an editor.

Page: https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/bootstrapping/step/pick-an-editor

Choose the editor you will read and review code in: Visual Studio Code, Cursor, Zed or a JetBrains IDE all work, and VS Code and JetBrains have a Claude Code extension that shows diffs inline. Install it, open an empty folder with it and make sure its terminal can run git and claude.

Usually comes after: [Install Claude Code](https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/bootstrapping/step/install-claude-code).

Every step of the tree: https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/bootstrapping/llms.txt