Data Curation Environment (DCE)
Cycle-based AI development, in the editor you already live in.
The DCE turns AI-assisted work into cycles: you describe what this round should accomplish, activate your agent, and review what came back — then write the next cycle. Your context is curated, your project's memory is artifact-first, and the whole loop is visible in one place: the Ascentia world.
Built for people who use VS Code + Claude Code with a Claude subscription. Your own agent does the work; the DCE curates what it sees and keeps the history.
The loop
- Select the context. Check the files that matter in the File Tree View — code, docs, design artifacts. The DCE flattens your selection (plus your cycle history) into one
agent.md the agent reads top-down.
- Write the cycle. Say what this round should do, in plain words. Cycle Notes color your draft as you write — green where a thought is named, red where it isn't yet.
- Activate the agent. One click hands the cycle to Claude Code (or your harness of choice). No copy-paste, no prompt assembly.
- Watch the work. The Ascentia world visualizes the live session — transmissions, threads, token flow, the orb weaving. Your past cycles orbit as a constellation.
- Review by git colors. The agent's work lands uncommitted. Modified and new files in your tree ARE the review; the pinned response carries the summary, the diffs, and the handoff list. Keep it and write the next cycle — or
git restore . and try again.
What you get
- Context curation — file selection with token counts, shadow-repo support, binary/PDF/Office extraction, and automatic selection upkeep as the agent proposes additions.
- Cycle history as memory — every cycle's context, response, and changed files persist locally; sprints group into orbits you can revisit.
- The Ascentia world — a live visualization of your agent at work: transmission log, thread telemetry, approval and question mirrors, the Code Cosmos of your repo.
- Cycle Notes — real-time key-pair structure over your draft, with AI-suggested keys grounded in your own workspace.
- Dictation — streaming speech-to-text into the cycle context (endpoint-configurable; local SoX capture).
- Artifact-first doctrine — features live in documents before code; the DCE keeps the two aligned.
Requirements
- VS Code 1.90+ and git.
- An agent harness: Claude Code (recommended — extension or CLI) or any agent you can point at a file. A clipboard mode covers everything else.
- Dictation (optional): SoX —
winget install sox / brew install sox / apt-get install sox.
License
Installing is free, and un-activated installs run a 10-cycle trial. One key, yours forever: the DCE License is $5 at aiascent.dev/dce/buy — the weaving runs on your own Claude subscription. In VS Code, run DCE: Enter License Key and paste it once. Lost it? Recover by email.
Your work, your repos, and your cycle history always stay on your machine.
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