How can I implement ACP for Claude Code?

[Xuanwo]

Hi team, thank you for building this. The ACP is really cool!

One question I have so far is how to implement ACP for Claude Code. It seems I’m missing enough APIs from Claude Code for session management. Is this something that must be handled internally by Anthropic?

The other question is if I did it by reading & parsing claude code's session logs, how to integrate it with zed?

[remorses]

It could be implemented on top of claude code sdk

https://docs.anthropic.com/it/docs/claude-code/sdk#type-script

[Xuanwo]

Thank you @remorses for your help! I created a project for this: https://github.com/Xuanwo/acp-claude-code

[muuvmuuv]

Seems to only work with the API not e.g. claude.ai Max Subscriptions. First errors comes from Zed so it seems to correctly continues but says I have no balance. Calling claude directly works.

[Xuanwo]

I'm sure it works on Claude.ai Max Subscriptions. Do you have other envs that make claude code to use it instead?

[hellno]

how can I help with this?

[agu-z]

We just shipped our own adapter for the Claude Code SDK: claude-code-acp, blog post.

The SDK has some limitations, but we were able to implement most of the features you'd expect. It's still in beta, but it already feels pretty good!

I'm closing this since we already have two usable adapters, and the discussion can continue there. Feel free to open a new discussion if you have more questions about ACP itself or how to implement it!