BuilderForce for VS Code

A codebase-aware BuilderForce AI coding agent in your editor sidebar.

Status: working agent. Sign in, point it at your repo, and ship — it edits code with your approval and runs your team's work without leaving the editor.

Features

• Ship code by chatting — describe what you want and the agent finds the right code, edits it (sandboxed to the open folder), runs your tests/build/lint to verify it works, and can commit, push, and open a PR — going from idea to shipped without leaving the editor. Every change and command asks for your approval first.
• Run your team's work from the editor — open, update, and dispatch projects, tasks, and OKRs directly in chat, and kick off a run on a ticket and follow its status — no dashboard. A Work Inbox in the sidebar shows what needs you (pending approvals) with one-click starts to review your pull requests and their CI, fix a production error from the error straight to the code, or open a pull request for your changes.
• It knows your codebase — scans the open folder once (cached) and grounds every answer in your project's real structure, so suggestions fit your code. Refresh with Rescan Codebase.
• Long chats keep going — busy conversations that pull in big results (like a full task list) used to fill up and stall the assistant part-way through. Now the chat keeps only what matters as it works, so it stays responsive and finishes the job instead of dying after a few steps.
• Show it a screenshot — paste or attach an image of a bug, error, or design and the agent acts on what it sees.
• See exactly what it did — and why it stopped — every step (its reasoning, each tool call with input/output, file edits, and errors) is visible, so you can trust and verify the work. One click copies the whole transcript, now with a plain-English Diagnostics summary: if a chat ever stalls, the copy tells you the likely reason at a glance — perfect to drop into a bug report or hand to support. Another click runs connection diagnostics.
• Pick up anywhere — your conversations are the same ones in the BuilderForce web app, so you can start in the editor and continue in the browser (or the reverse).
• Secure sign-in — one-click browser login (or paste-key); your key lives in the OS keychain, never in settings or logs.
• Your gateway, your models — defaults to https://api.builderforce.ai; override builderforce.baseUrl for self-hosted, and pick any model from the live pool or let the gateway choose.

Getting started

1. Install the extension and open the folder you want to work in.
2. Click the BuilderForce icon in the Activity Bar.
3. Click Sign In (a browser opens to approve, or paste an API key from https://builderforce.ai).
4. Ask it to build or change something — it will scan the repo, propose edits, and apply them on your approval.

Settings

Development

npm install
npm run compile      # or: npm run watch
# Press F5 in VS Code to launch the Extension Development Host

Publishing

See PUBLISHING.md for the dual-registry (VS Code Marketplace + Open VSX) release process.

License

MIT © Sean Hogg / BuilderForce