DevBoost

Boost your development workflow with powerful productivity tools designed for modern developers. DevBoost combines intelligent automation, AI-powered features, and practical utilities to streamline your daily coding tasks.

SmartCmd

• Automation Buttons

  • Create one-click buttons for your most-used commands
  • AI analyzes your workflow to suggest useful automations
  • Manually create custom buttons without AI if you prefer
  • Add dynamic input fields for runtime variables (e.g., commit messages, environment names)
  • Supports both simple commands and complex multi-step scripts
  • Buttons can be workspace-specific or global across all projects

• AI-Powered Button Creation

  • Describe what you want in natural language, enhance the prompt and AI generates the button
  • AI suggests buttons based on your recent development activity
  • Review, edit, and approve all AI suggestions before saving
  • AI handles platform-specific command syntax automatically

  

• Manual Button Creation

  • Create buttons without AI assistance for full control
  • Define button name, command, execution directory, and description
  • Add input placeholders for dynamic values at execution time
  • Choose between workspace-only or global availability

• Script Support

  • Generate and run multi-step scripts from a single button
  • AI creates scripts with error handling and conditional logic
  • View and edit script files directly in VS Code
  • Supports platform-specific commands (Windows, macOS, Linux)
  • Input fields work with scripts for dynamic variables

• Button Management

  • Copy workspace buttons to global scope for reuse across projects
  • Delete, edit, and reorganize buttons easily
  • Execute buttons with a single click
  • View button commands and descriptions in tooltips
  • Open and edit button configuration files directly

  

• Button Groups

  • Organize buttons into custom groups for easier navigation
  • Create groups within Global or Workspace scope
  • Add buttons to multiple groups simultaneously
  • Reorder buttons within groups via drag-and-drop
  • Reorder groups themselves to customize layout
  • Rename or delete groups without affecting the buttons
  • "All Buttons" section always shows complete button list
  • Edit Groups panel for bulk group management

• Import/Export

  • Export buttons, groups, and scripts to a zip file for backup or sharing
  • Choose to export Global, Workspace, or both scopes
  • Import SmartCmds from zip files with automatic scope preservation
  • Conflict resolution options: skip duplicates, rename automatically, or overwrite existing
  • Scripts are automatically organized by scope in exports

• Cross-Platform Compatibility

  • Works seamlessly on Windows, macOS, and Linux
  • Adapts commands and scripts to your shell environment (bash, zsh, PowerShell, cmd)
  • Platform-aware command generation

Prompt Enhancer

• Quick Enhance

  • One-click enhancement from clipboard text
  • Instantly improves clarity, specificity, and effectiveness
  • Enhanced prompt automatically copied back to clipboard
  • Preview results or view full comparison in editor
  • Fast refinement without manual configuration

• Prompt Enhancer Interface

  • Analyze prompts and get AI-powered improvement suggestions
  • Apply selected enhancements to refine your prompts
  • Generate new prompts from high-level intent descriptions
  • Interactive webview with real-time feedback
  • Copy enhanced results directly to clipboard

Quick Actions

SmartCmd:

• Open DevBoost Sidebar - Click the 🚀 rocket icon in VS Code's activity bar
• Generate AI-Suggested Buttons - Click ✨ sparkle icon to analyze your workflow and create automation buttons
• Create Custom Button - Click ➕ plus icon to manually create buttons or use AI assistance
• Execute Buttons - Single-click any button to run commands instantly
• Edit & Manage Buttons - Right-click buttons to edit, delete, or copy to global scope
• View Scripts - Right-click script buttons to view and edit script files
• Bulk Edit Buttons - Click 🖌️ to select multiple buttons for bulk edit
• Create Group - Click 🗂️ on section header to create a new group
• Add to Group - Right-click a button and select "Add to Group"
• Import/Export SmartCmds - Right-click a section header to import/export SmartCmds using zip file
• Refresh Buttons - Click 🔄 refresh icon to reload all buttons

Prompt Enhancer:

• Quick Enhance - Copy text to clipboard, click Quick Enhance button, get enhanced result instantly
• Open Prompt Enhancer - Click the Prompt Enhancer icon to access the interface
• Analyze & Improve - Paste your prompt, get AI suggestions, select improvements to apply
• Generate from Intent - Describe what you want, AI generates a complete prompt for you

Notes

1. Use extension's UI to manage buttons instead of editing related JSON files directly.
2. Use 'Enable Tracking Non-VScode Terminal Session' feature under SmartCmd menu for tracking commands run in sessions like screen, tmux, ssh etc.
3. Configure your choice of AI provider (currently supports Copilot, Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic and Ollama) and model for SmartCmd and Prompt Enhancer from their menu button.

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