I stopped correcting Claude Code in the terminal. Not because it doesn’t work — because AI plans got too complex for it.
The problem: Claude generates a plan, and you disagree with part of it. Most people retype corrections in the terminal. I do this instead:
ctrl-g — opens the plan in VS Code
Select the text I disagree with
cmd+shift+a — wraps it in an annotation block with space for my feedback
It looks like this:
<!-- COMMENT > The selected text from Claude’s plan goes here My feedback: I’d rather use X approach because… -->
Claude reads the annotations and adjusts. No retyping context. No copy-pasting. It’s like leaving a PR comment, but on an AI plan.
The entire setup:
Cmd+Shift+P -> Configure Snippets -> Markdown (markdown.json):
“Annotate Selection”: { “prefix”: “annotate”, “body”: [“<!-- COMMENT”, “> ${TM_SELECTED_TEXT}”, “”, “$1”, “–>$0”] }
Cmd+Shift+P -> Keyboard Shortcuts (JSON) (keybindings.json):
{ “key”: “cmd+shift+a”, “command”: “editor.action.insertSnippet”, “args”: { “name”: “Annotate Selection” }, “when”: “editorTextFocus && editorLangId == markdown” }
That’s it. 10 lines. One shortcut.
Small AI workflow investments compound fast. This one changed how I work every day.
Full disclosure: I’m building an AI QA tool (Bugzy AI), so I spend a lot of time working with AI coding agents and watching what breaks. This pattern came from that daily work.
What’s your best trick for working with AI coding tools?
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Originally posted by u/milkoslavov on r/ClaudeCode