BEE Code for VS Code

Plan, edit, run, verify, and rewind without leaving VS Code.

BEE Code is an agentic coding assistant from HEOSSI. It works across your repository, uses the diagnostics already available in the editor, and keeps outward-facing actions such as Git push and pull requests behind an approval in every mode.

Install from the Microsoft Marketplace · Install from Open VSX

Start in under a minute

1. Install BEE Code for VS Code.
2. Open a folder and select the Bee icon in the Activity Bar.
3. Sign in with a Bee account or a scoped bee_sk_ API key.
4. Ask for a change in plain language and review the proposed work.

Free Bee Cell access is available through a Bee Workspace account. Bee Code offers the full Cell, Brood, Comb, Buzz, Hive, and Swarm ladder; the signed-in customer sees and can select only the models included with their Workspace, Business, Enterprise, or API entitlement.

What BEE Code can do

• Understand a real repository. List and search the workspace, read active files and selections, and attach or mention project files as context.
• Make complete changes. Create, write, append, patch, and delete files with a visible permission boundary.
• Run and verify work. Launch bounded commands, follow long-running jobs, read native editor diagnostics, and report the evidence. Implementation-like tasks cannot be reported complete without a successful mutation followed by successful verification.
• Work with Git deliberately. Inspect status, create branches and commits, push, and open pull requests. Publication always requires approval.
• Use the web and installed tools when needed. Governed web search is built in. Tools actually registered in VS Code, including installed MCP tools for browsers, forms, design systems, infrastructure, and other services, can be selected from a bounded per-request catalog. Every such invocation asks explicitly and is revalidated by VS Code before execution.
• Recover precisely. Branch only the conversation, restore only the files, or do both from any user turn.

Bee Code exposes 20 built-in governed tools across workspace search, file editing, commands, diagnostics, Git, pull requests, web search, and the approval-gated VS Code/MCP bridge. Availability of a particular external tool depends on what the customer has installed and configured in VS Code.

Bounded orchestration

Bee Code 0.2.11 gives each customer request a durable manager run. Bee Cell uses one manager model call at a time. Paid tiers can add bounded specialist and independent-verifier calls according to both the active subscription and the selected model; the lower entitlement always wins. A request for 1,000 agents is represented as governed logical-worker shards and never means 1,000 simultaneous GPU containers.

Every manager, specialist, and verifier call reserves its model-call slot and token ceiling atomically before provider work. Cancellation, retries, parallel limits, usage metering, and terminal state are stored against the signed-in account. Specialist analysis is advisory; only the manager can use the local workspace tools, and it must verify completed work before reporting success.

This contract requires both Bee Code 0.2.11 or newer and the matching production agent API. A visible Marketplace page is not version evidence: the current published client version is reported on the Bee download page, and the client fails closed if the matching agent transport is unavailable.

Choose the authority level

Manual is the default. Session approvals expire with the conversation, and publication approval cannot be disabled.

Models and reasoning controls

• Select any entitled production model: Bee Cell, Brood, Comb, Buzz, Hive, or the governed Swarm routing fabric.
• Select reasoning effort for the next request.
• Enable Thinking on models that support it.
• Use Fast mode for Low effort with Thinking off, without silently changing the selected model.
• Optionally flag an answer so the next request uses the stronger eligible Bee Code model. A flagged response is never re-run automatically.

Model availability is enforced by the agent API against the customer account, not trusted to a client-side menu. Paid Modal capacity remains scale-to-zero and wakes only for an entitled request; Swarm uses its governed routed execution fabric. See the live model and capability matrix for context, reasoning, modality, and tool details.

Customize and integrate

• Account output styles opens the live Bee preference control; Bee Code applies the saved tone, response style, and response format on agent turns.
• Bee memory opens the account's live memory manager.
• VS Code agents, hooks, MCP servers, and plugins open the corresponding native manager supplied by the installed editor. On older builds, Bee Code reports the missing editor capability instead of pretending it was changed.
• Installed VS Code and MCP tools are advertised to Bee only for the active request. A tool not advertised by that editor is rejected by the API. Every invocation is outward-facing and requires a fresh approval; “Allow for session” is intentionally unavailable for this bridge.
• Focus view toggles VS Code Zen Mode.
• Remote Control is displayed as unavailable. Bee Code has no remote-session subsystem in this release and never enables one implicitly.

Rewind without collateral damage

Hover a message you sent and choose exactly what should move back:

• Swarm from here branches the conversation and leaves files alone.
• Rewind the comb restores the files and keeps the conversation.
• Swarm and rewind does both.

Bee Code snapshots the files touched by a turn immediately before changing them. A rewind restores only that turn's affected files rather than replacing the whole repository.

Local sessions and explicit data flow

Conversation history is stored on the local machine and can be reopened, renamed, retained, or deleted by the user. Bee Code sends the prompt and the workspace context required for a turn to the configured Bee agent endpoint; it does not upload an entire repository as background synchronization.

Secrets are excluded by default. .env, private keys, .aws/, and .ssh/ matches are never read, sent as context, or edited, including when explicitly requested. Paths are confined to the canonical workspace, and commands run from an argument array rather than through a shell.

Bee Code refuses VS Code Restricted Mode instead of operating with a misleading partial-trust posture. Credentials are stored in VS Code SecretStorage and are excluded from settings.json and Settings Sync.

Transparent commit attribution

Commits created through Bee Code retain the developer's configured Git identity as the primary author. By default, a separate trailer records the selected Bee model, for example:

Co-Authored-By: Bee Cell <bee-noreply@heossi.com>

Set beecode.gitCommitAttribution to false to omit the trailer.

Sign-in options

• Bee Workspace Subscription - individual and team plans.
• Bee Business or Enterprise Subscription - regulated and Enclave plans, with entitlement confirmed against the signed-in account.
• Bee API Subscription - Pollen, Nectar, Honey, or Royal Jelly using a bee_sk_ key with the code:actions:write scope.

An existing beecode login session is detected automatically.

Settings

Keyboard and commands

• Cmd/Ctrl+Esc: focus or unfocus Bee Code.
• Alt+K: mention the current selection.
• Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Backspace: cancel the active turn.

The Command Palette includes sign in, sign out, open, new session, history, delete session, focus, unfocus, cancel, mention selection, and logs.

Support and trust

• Documentation and downloads
• TypeScript SDK
• Python SDK
• SDK documentation
• MCP Registry
• MCP documentation
• Public SDK, MCP, architecture, and verification repository
• Report an extension problem
• Bee security and trust
• Extension changelog

Version 0.2.12 requires VS Code 1.134 or newer.

Bee Code is part of Bee by HEOSSI - The Progressive Quantum-Native Intelligence Engine.