Hey everyone — quick question for folks running Claude via Azure AI Foundry / Microsoft Foundry (enterprise setup). My goal: “full Claude Code experience” in VS Code (plan mode, diffs, MCP/skills/plugins if possible) while keeping everything Azure-only for compliance. I’m trying to understand the cleanest, most reliable setup in 2026. Questions: Are you using the official Claude Code VS Code extension , or just Claude Code CLI in the terminal , or a third-party extension (Cline/Roo/Damocles/etc.)? If you’re on Foundry, does the VS Code extension work seamlessly , or does it still prompt for login / ignore env vars sometimes? (Any workarounds?) Do you run this on Windows + WSL , native Linux, macOS? Any gotchas with where the extension host runs? For multi-model setups (Claude + GPT models), do you: keep separate configs, or use a gateway (LiteLLM/other proxy) to route models behind one endpoint? If you’re aiming for “full Claude Code features” (MCP, skills/plugins), did a gateway introduce any limitations — or is it basically the same? If you’re willing, I’d love to hear: your exact high-level architecture (1–2 sentences) what you’d recommend as the least painful setup for a small group of power users (3–5 people) Thanks in advance — trying to avoid reinventing the wheel 🙏 Fabs submitted by /u/Fabian-88
Originally posted by u/Fabian-88 on r/ClaudeCode