Support devcontainer.json in Cloud Environments (and local Docker)
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Activity 0 comments · opened Aug 27, 2026
Cloud Environments currently only let you configure env vars and a bash setup script. There's no way to reuse a repo's existing .devcontainer/devcontainer.json or point at a prebuilt container image.
I already have a devcontainer that Codespaces and VS Code use for my toolchain. To get the same setup in a Claude environment I have to rewrite all of it as a bash script and keep the two in sync manually.
Would be great if Claude Code could just read devcontainer.json from the repo (or let me specify a base image) so the environment lives in one place instead of being duplicated in a setup script. Ideally this works both for cloud environments and locally via Docker.