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Use Your Claude Code Configuration

If you already use Claude Code, Reasoning can reuse your global instructions and skills. Choose one of two approaches: import them once, or keep loading them from the Claude Code folder.

Import once​

Experimental

Turn on Claude Code Migration in Settings → Experimental to use this option.

The import runs once, the next time the Reasoning backend starts, and does not retry on its own. It brings in:

  • your global ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md instructions, as global AI Cockpit instructions. If AI Cockpit already has global instructions, they are kept;
  • simple skills from ~/.claude/skills;
  • MCP server definitions from ~/.claude.json, imported disabled.
  1. Turn on Claude Code Migration and save.
  2. Reload the VS Code window so the backend restarts.
  3. Read the Claude Code configuration migration notification. It lists how many items were imported, skipped, or failed, and points to a receipt file with the full list.
  4. Enable the imported MCP servers you need in Settings → Agents → MCP Servers.
  5. Merge skipped instructions or skills manually.

Your Claude Code files stay unchanged. From now on, make global changes in AI Cockpit; keep the Claude files only if you still use Claude Code.

Keep loading Claude Code files​

To use the Claude Code files directly, without copying them, open Settings → Agents and turn on Load Claude Code Files, under Claude Code Compatibility. Sessions then load the CLAUDE.md instructions and skills from your Claude Code configuration folder. Restart Reasoning after changing it.

Use this option when you keep working in both tools and want one set of instructions.

See Custom rules and Skills to manage instructions and skills in AI Cockpit.