Learning Extension

Turn your AI chat conversations into structured tutorials and learning materials — automatically.

Features

Generate from Chat

Select any recent chat session from the sidebar, pick specific questions or use the entire conversation, choose a difficulty level (Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced), and generate a polished tutorial in one click.

Batch Generate

Combine multiple chat sessions from a configurable time window into separate tutorials at once. You choose how far back to look and what difficulty level to use.

Scheduled Auto-Generation

Set up multiple schedules — like phone alarms — to automatically generate tutorials at specific times of day. Each schedule has:

• Time — when to run (24-hour format, e.g. 18:00)
• Lookback window — how many hours of chat history to consider
• Difficulty level — Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced

Each chat within the lookback window gets its own tutorial. Schedules are off by default and only run while the IDE is open.

Chat Detail View

Click on any chat in the Available Chats tree to open a detail view where you can:

• See all the questions you asked in that session
• Select specific questions to include in the tutorial
• Choose the difficulty level before generating

Multiple LLM Providers

Tutorial Difficulty Levels

Every generation mode supports three levels:

• Beginner — simplified explanations, step-by-step walkthroughs, minimal jargon
• Intermediate — balanced depth with practical examples and best practices
• Advanced — in-depth analysis, edge cases, performance considerations, and architectural patterns

@learn Chat Participant

Type @learn in the VS Code chat panel followed by any question:

@learn How do JavaScript closures work?

The extension will:

1. Answer your question using the available language model, streaming the response in the chat
2. Automatically generate a structured tutorial from the Q&A
3. Save it as learn-how-do-javascript-closures-work.md in your output folder
4. Show it in the Generated Materials panel

This works in VS Code when Copilot or another language model is active. No extra steps needed — ask and learn.

Chat Source Detection

The extension automatically discovers your AI chat history from multiple sources:

The Actions panel shows a live count of detected chats per source (e.g. "5 Cursor + 8 Copilot chats").

Status Bar Notifications

• A flashing book icon appears in the status bar after new chat activity, prompting you to generate learning content
• A spinning indicator shows when a tutorial is being generated
• A checkmark briefly confirms when generation is complete

Sidebar Panel

The Learning Materials activity bar panel has three sections:

• Actions — Quick buttons for Generate from Chat, Batch Generate, schedule management, and settings
• Available Chats — Tree view of all detected chat sessions across sources
• Generated Materials — Tree view of all your generated tutorials with inline rename and delete

Rename & Delete

Right-click (or use the inline icons) on any generated tutorial to rename or delete it directly from the sidebar.

Cancellable Generation

Every generation task shows a progress notification with a cancel button. Aborting stops the LLM request immediately.

Visual Settings Page

Run Learning: Open Settings to open a dedicated webview where you can configure your LLM provider, model, API keys, and output folder — all in one place.

Getting Started

1. Install the extension from the marketplace
2. Open the Learning Materials panel in the activity bar (book icon)
3. Configure your LLM provider via Learning: Open Settings or the gear icon

Settings

Output Format

Each generated file is a Markdown document with YAML frontmatter:

---
title: "Understanding TypeScript Generics"
generated: 2026-02-21T14:30:00.000Z
mode: chat
level: intermediate
sources: ["abc-123"]
---

# Understanding TypeScript Generics

## Overview
...

## Core Concepts
...

## Step-by-Step Guide
...

## Key Takeaways
...

## Further Reading
...

License

MIT