Roastly

AI roasts. Real impact. Brutal honesty about your code, said with fire, built to help.

Roastly sends your code to Claude and gets back a score, a funny top-level roast, and a list of specific findings — each with a severity, a plain explanation, a punchy one-liner, and a concrete fix. Results show up as a sidebar panel, inline squiggles under the exact lines with problems, and one-click "Fix It ⚡" quick actions.

Features

• Roast File / Roast Selection — roast the whole active file or just the code you've highlighted
• Sidebar panel — score, narrative roast, and full findings list, auto-opens after every roast
• Inline diagnostics — squiggly underlines on the exact flagged lines
• Fix It ⚡ quick actions — apply Claude's suggested fix with one click (lightbulb / Cmd+.)
• Right-click support — roast a file or selection straight from the context menu

Requirements

Roastly doesn't have a shared public backend yet — you'll need to run your own. See the main project README for the full setup, but in short:

1. Deploy or run apps/api from the Roastly repo with an Anthropic API key
2. Run Roastly: Set API Key in this extension and paste in your backend's API_SECRET
3. If you're not using localhost:3000, point the extension at your backend in Settings (see below)

Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following setting:

• roastly.apiUrl: The base URL of your Roastly API backend. Change this if you're self-hosting somewhere other than the default.

Commands

Available from the Command Palette, or by right-clicking in the editor:

• Roastly: Roast File
• Roastly: Roast Selection
• Roastly: Set API Key
• Roastly: Open Roastly Panel

Known Issues

• No per-user accounts yet — each user needs to run their own backend and supply their own API key
• No website companion yet (roasting a GitHub repo or a live URL from a browser)

Release Notes

0.0.1

Initial release: roast file/selection, inline diagnostics, Fix It quick actions, sidebar panel, configurable backend URL.