Manage your dispatch orchestration platform directly from VS Code.
Features
Activity Bar: Dispatch icon opens the Dispatch Features landing screen in the main editor with task, agent, skill, feature, automation, and approval views in the sidebar
Features: Discover Dispatch capabilities, see live status, review API endpoints, and launch configuration/use actions
Tasks: Real-time task list grouped by status, click for detail panel
Agents: View loaded agent definitions with models
Dispatch Chat: Chat with Dispatch and change the chat planner model directly from the chat panel or Switch Model
Skills: Browse skills grouped by User-Installed vs System-Created, install from skills.sh or GitHub, and enable/disable from the context menu
Automation: View cron jobs, webhooks, and event triggers
Approvals: Pending approvals with Approve/Reject actions + native VS Code notifications
Status Bar: Running/queued task count, always visible
Commands: Feature Catalog, Create Task, Show Stats, Recall Memory, Memory Explorer
Task Detail Panel: Webview with status, events timeline, actions (cancel/retry/enqueue)
Real-time Updates: SSE connection to daemon for live task state changes
Setup
Start the dispatch daemon: dispatch --start
Install this extension in VS Code
The Dispatch icon appears in the activity bar
Configuration
Setting
Default
Description
dispatch.apiUrl
http://localhost:7878
Dispatch daemon API URL
dispatch.autoRefreshInterval
5000
Auto-refresh interval (ms), 0 to disable
dispatch.autoStartDaemon
true
If the daemon isn't responding when the extension activates, run dispatch --start automatically (requires the dispatch CLI on your PATH).
