Elidia Agent for VS Code

Chat with Elidia, and explain or fix the code you have selected — running against your own agent, on your machine.

What it does

Chat that streams. Replies arrive token by token, with the agent's tool calls shown as they happen, so you can see what it is doing rather than waiting at a spinner.

Explain and Fix on a selection. Select code, right-click, and get an explanation or a corrected version — the file and language go along with it, so the answer is about your code and not a generic snippet.

It asks before it acts. When the agent wants to use a tool that touches your files, VS Code shows a modal asking you first. Anything you do not explicitly allow is refused. This is not an add-on: it is part of the protocol the extension speaks.

Stop a runaway turn. The Stop button cancels the current turn without restarting the agent or losing the conversation.

Switch models. Pick from whatever models your Elidia install offers.

Requirements

pip install "elidia-agent-cli[acp]"

The [acp] part matters — it installs the protocol the extension speaks. If it is missing, the extension tells you exactly that rather than failing obscurely.

Nothing is sent anywhere except to the agent you are running. The extension starts it as a child process, talks to it over stdio, and stops it when the window closes.

Commands

Settings

The extension verifies a candidate actually starts before using it, so a stale elidia from an older install will not be picked up silently.

How it connects

VS Code  ──stdio JSON-RPC (ACP)──▶  elidia-acp  ──▶  Elidia agent

It speaks the Agent Client Protocol, the same interface Elidia exposes to other ACP-capable editors — so the agent behaves the same wherever you use it.

Troubleshooting

"No Elidia agent found" — install it: pip install "elidia-agent-cli[acp]", or point elidia.acpPath at the executable.

"Elidia is installed but the ACP extra is missing" — you have the CLI without the protocol package. The same install command adds it.

Anything else — run Elidia: Show Log. The agent's own output goes there.

Licence

MIT — Elidia Technology Pvt Ltd.