The Jade 2025 release focuses on modernising the developer experience and helping you build faster, smarter, and more scalable applications.
We've had good results connecting Claude to another system via an MCP server, and it's made a real difference by letting Claude work with live data directly instead of us copying and pasting between tools. I'd like to propose doing something similar for the Jade IDE.
The idea is an MCP server that connects our development environment to Claude, so developers can work with the codebase conversationally instead of switching contexts constantly. A few things this would unlock:
Ask Claude to explain a class or function directly, for example "explain the Customer class and its functions", with Claude reading the actual current code rather than someone pasting snippets in manually
Run peer reviews on code deltas straight from Claude, comparing changes against the existing codebase without exporting diffs or copying files back and forth
Faster onboarding for new developers, who could ask Claude to walk them through unfamiliar parts of the codebase interactively
Based on how well the same pattern has worked for us elsewhere, I think doing this for the IDE would save real time on two of the most repetitive parts of development work: understanding existing code and reviewing changes to it. Keen to hear what others think and whether this is worth prioritising.
Sam Stokell
