OEDP – OpenEdge ABL Developer Pack

Early access / work in progress. The extensions are usable today. the AI-skills + MCP layer is actively being built and tested.

A curated VS Code extension pack for Progress OpenEdge ABL / 4GL developers — language support, snippets, tooling, and productivity extensions in one install.

Why this pack exists

It's mid-2026. Almost everyone is writing software either by hand or side-by-side with AI — and the pace is accelerating fast. The teams at the front of the curve have already moved past "AI autocomplete." They're orchestrating their work: describing issues, and letting humans and agents drive them to done together.

In the OpenEdge world, the foundation for that next step is already in place. Progress has done the hard part: the OpenEdge ABL language server and the official OpenEdge MCP connector make ABL a first-class citizen in VS Code and across AI agents.

What's missing is the operational tooling on top — database administration, PASOE management, health checks, UI design, and API generation.

That's AI4YOU: the operational tooling layer on top of the Progress foundation.

That's where phase 1 starts: bringing that tooling into this environment.

Capability	Extension	Available on	Ongoing
Database administration	OpenEdge Data Administration
UI design	API4UI – UI Designer & Toolbox
PASOE management	OpenEdge ABL – PASOE
API code generation	OpenEdge ABL – OpenAPI
Database querying & browsing	OpenEdge DataDigger
Performance checks	OpenEdge HCK – Health Check Kit
Shared configuration	OpenEdge Config Management

MCP badges reflect extensions with documented agent tools others are planned.

Today, these tools live mainly in the UI, during development. The second stage brings them to developers working manually with AI agents inside VS Code and its forks, through the extensions in this pack.

But that's not the destination. The goal is to move away from the code itself and toward a project-management foundation — where humans and AI collaborate on described features, not lines of code. To get there, the OpenEdge ecosystem still has gaps we need to close.

By bringing this operational tooling to VS Code and its forks now — alongside the Progress language and MCP foundation — we make these capabilities available to agents. Together, the Progress foundation and the OEDP layer unlock stable, predictable, fully automated feature delivery for OpenEdge development.

Work in progress: We are also building installable AI-agent skills for this pack using Microsoft APM. See AI skills for agents (APM) — work in progress.

Agent tools: For the tools each extension exposes to AI agents, see Agent Tools — covering DataDigger, Data Administration, HCK, PASOE, OpenAPI, and Config Management.

What's inside

Progress foundation

Operational tooling layer by AI4YOU

Extra developer tools

AI agent skills

This repository contains Claude/agent skill definitions under:

• skills/
• packages/*/skills/

The top-level skills/ folder is included to make external skill indexers such as SkillsMP more likely to discover the skills.

Skill files are validated with npm run validate:skills.

Installation

1. Open Extensions (Ctrl+Shift+X).
2. Search for OpenEdge ABL Developer Pack.
3. Click Install — all bundled extensions install together.

Note: ABLUnit Runner is available on VS Code only and may not install on every VS Code fork.

Compatibility

Works in VS Code ^1.96.0 and compatible forks. Individual extensions may have their own platform requirements.

About

The AI4YOU extensions in this pack are built and published by KH-IT BV. AI4YOU is our VS Code Marketplace publisher name; KH-IT is the company behind it.

OEDP is the short brand name. The Marketplace display name is OpenEdge ABL Developer Pack for discoverability.