AI Drift Detector

VSCode extension that watches your Claude Code and OpenAI Codex chats and warns when sessions drift — losing focus, repeating mistakes, or wasting your time.

What it does

Auto-detects new Claude Code transcripts
Creates a drift session per chat tab and posts turns as they happen
Live status bar showing the active profile; click it to switch profiles
Notification with actions when drift is detected
Sidebar list of recent sessions (AI Drift activity-bar view)
Reports VSCode task and terminal outcomes (lint/build/test pass/fail) for the active turn
Watches git for commits and pushes and attaches them to the session timeline

Install

From VS Code:

Open the Extensions pane (Cmd+Shift+X / Ctrl+Shift+X).
Search for AI Drift Detector (publisher GenioHub).
Click Install.

Or from the command line:

code --install-extension GenioHub.aidrift

Marketplace page: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GenioHub.aidrift

Setup

The extension connects to AiDrift at https://drift.geniohub.com by default. Sign up or sign in:

Click the AI Drift icon in the activity bar.
Click Sign In in the welcome view, or run Drift: Sign In from the Command Palette.
Pick browser sign-in for the zero-copy flow — the dashboard opens, you sign up or log in, and the token comes back to VS Code automatically. Or paste a PAT from the dashboard's Generate Token button.

The same sign-in works for the companion CLI (npm i -g @aidrift/cli) and the Claude Code plugin — credentials are shared via ~/.drift/profiles.json.

For local/self-hosted AiDrift backends, run Drift: Add Profile to register a second profile pointing at your backend URL (e.g. http://localhost:3331/api) and switch to it.

Commands

All commands are available from the Command Palette (Cmd+Shift+P) under the Drift: prefix. Some are also surfaced from the status bar, the sidebar welcome view, and the walkthrough.

Authentication

Command	How to use
`Drift: Sign In`	Opens a quick-pick with three sign-in methods (browser / token / email+password). Pick one and follow the prompts.
`Drift: Sign In with Browser`	Opens the active profile's dashboard at `/cli-signin?callback=vscode://…`. After you log in or sign up, the dashboard redirects back and the token is stored automatically.
`Drift: Sign In with Token`	Prompts for a Personal Access Token (`aidrift_pat_…`) copied from the dashboard. Paste and confirm.
`Drift: Sign In with Email + Password`	Prompts for email, then password. Only works for accounts registered with a password.
`Drift: Sign Out`	Clears the stored token for the active profile, stops all watchers, and resets the status bar.
`Drift: Show Signed-In User`	Calls `/auth/me` and shows the current email + user id, or warns if the session expired.

Profiles (multi-host support)

A "profile" is a named {apiBaseUrl, dashboardUrl} pair with its own stored token. The active profile name is shown in the status bar; clicking it runs Drift: Switch Profile.

Command	How to use
`Drift: Switch Profile`	Quick-pick of profiles; the active one has a check mark. Also includes `Add profile…` and `Edit profile…` shortcuts. Switching restarts the watchers against the new host.
`Drift: Add Profile`	Prompts for name (letters/digits/`_`/`-`), API base URL, and dashboard URL. Offers to switch to the new profile immediately.
`Drift: Edit Profile`	Pick a profile, then edit its name, API URL, and dashboard URL.
`Drift: Remove Profile`	Pick a non-active profile; confirms with a modal before deleting the profile and its stored credentials. Cannot remove the active profile — switch first.
`Drift: Show Current Profile`	Shows the active profile name, API URL, and signed-in email (or "not signed in").

Session control

These operate on the currently tracked session (the most recent chat the watcher attached to).

Command	How to use
`Drift: Show Status for Active Session`	Shows a notification with the last cached drift score, trend, task description, and any active alert reasons.
`Drift: Mark Last Turn Accepted`	Marks the most recent turn as accepted via `PATCH /turns/:id/outcome`. Feeds the acceptance-rate signal.
`Drift: Mark Last Turn Rejected`	Same as above but marks the turn rejected.
`Drift: Create Checkpoint for Active Session`	Prompts for a summary, then creates a manual checkpoint on the latest turn and records the current `git rev-parse HEAD` if available.
`Drift: Open Last Stable Checkpoint`	Opens the dashboard at the most recent checkpointed turn (anchor `#turn-…`). Warns if no stable checkpoint exists yet.

Dashboard + diagnostics

Command	How to use
`Drift: Open Active Session in Dashboard`	Opens `{dashboardUrl}/sessions/{activeId}?workspacePath=…` in the system browser. Falls back to `/sessions` if no active session.
`Drift: Open Session in Dashboard`	Programmatic variant that takes a `sessionId` argument (used by the sidebar tree; not normally invoked by hand).
`Drift: Refresh Sessions`	Refreshes the sidebar tree. Also exposed as the refresh icon in the AI Drift view title.
`Drift: Debug Tracking`	Dumps watcher state, workspace root, active session id, and a call to `/tracking/health` into a new `AI Drift Tracking` output channel. Use when sessions aren't appearing.

UI surfaces

Activity bar view AI Drift — tree of recent sessions. Auto-refreshes. Shows a welcome view with sign-in buttons when signed out.
Status bar item — $(pulse) aidrift: {profile}. Click to switch profiles. Tooltip shows the API URL.
Walkthrough Get Started with AI Drift — three steps: sign in, switch profiles, open the view. Available from the VSCode Walkthroughs page.
URI handler — vscode://geniohub.aidrift/signin-callback?token=… is how the browser sign-in delivers the token back. vscode://geniohub.aidrift/open-diff?... opens a diff from the dashboard.

Settings

aidrift.watchClaudeCode (default true) — watch ~/.claude/projects/ for transcripts.
aidrift.watchCodex (default true) — watch ~/.codex/sessions/ for rollouts.
aidrift.trackTaskExecution (default true) — report VSCode task/terminal outcomes for the active turn. Terminal coverage requires shell integration (VSCode 1.93+).
aidrift.watchGitEvents (default true) — watch .git/refs/ for commits and pushes.
aidrift.statusPollIntervalSeconds (default 30) — poll interval for /sessions/:id/status. Backs off exponentially on failure, cap 5 min.
aidrift.requestTimeoutSeconds (default 10, min 2) — HTTP timeout for extension → API calls.
aidrift.driftAlertThreshold (default 65) — score below which a drift alert fires.
aidrift.autoCheckpoint (default true) — auto-checkpoint on every accepted turn.
aidrift.implicitAcceptTimeoutSeconds (default 300) — seconds without a follow-up before a turn is treated as implicitly accepted.
aidrift.apiBaseUrl, aidrift.dashboardUrl — deprecated, ignored once profiles are configured. Use Drift: Add Profile / Drift: Switch Profile instead.