# Choose your development environment

Opsera Agents work in Claude Desktop, Cursor IDE, and VS Code. Pick the environment that fits your workflow,se tup takes 5 minutes in any of them.

All three options give you the same capabilities: natural language commands to run security scans, analyze architecture, audit compliance, and more.

## Which terminal should I use?

| Claude Desktop                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | Cursor IDE                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | VS Code                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
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| <p><strong>Best for:</strong> Quick analysis, ad-hoc security scans, one-off tasks</p><p><strong>You'll use it for:</strong></p><ul><li>Running security scans before committing code</li><li>Quick architecture analysis</li><li>Exploring what agents can do</li><li>Tasks that don't require deep IDE integration</li></ul><p><strong>Setup time:</strong> 1 command (fastest)</p> | <p><strong>Best for:</strong> Active development, continuous security checks, integrated workflows</p><p><strong>You'll use it for:</strong></p><ul><li>Security scanning while writing code</li><li>Architecture analysis during code reviews</li><li>Real-time compliance checking</li><li>Keeping agents in your development context</li></ul><p><strong>Setup time:</strong> 3 steps (\~5 minutes)</p> | <p><strong>Best for:</strong> Teams already using VS Code, GitHub Copilot users, enterprise environments</p><p><strong>You'll use it for:</strong></p><ul><li>Integration with GitHub Copilot Chat</li><li>Team-wide agent deployment (via workspace config)</li><li>Corporate standardization</li><li>Existing VS Code workflows</li></ul><p><strong>Setup time:</strong> 3 steps (\~5 minutes)</p> |
| [Get started with Claude Desktop →](https://docs.agents.opsera.ai/terminal-setup/claude-desktop)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | [Get started with Cursor →](https://docs.agents.opsera.ai/terminal-setup/cursor-ide)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | [Get started with VS Code →](https://docs.agents.opsera.ai/terminal-setup/vs-code)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |


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