Elixium AI Companion for VS Code

Your agile board, inside your IDE. Connect to Elixium.ai and manage stories, track iteration context, and run MCP tools without leaving your editor.

Getting Started

One-Click Setup Wizard

Run Elixium: Setup Wizard from the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) and the wizard will:

Validate your credentials against your Elixium workspace
Detect installed AI agents (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf)
Write MCP configs for each agent automatically
Scaffold Claude slash commands for common workflows
Update .gitignore to keep credentials out of version control

All you need is your API URL and API Key from Elixium (Integrations panel on any board).

Manual Setup

If you prefer manual configuration, add this to .vscode/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elixium": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@elixium.ai/mcp-server@latest"],
      "env": {
        "ELIXIUM_API_KEY": "your_api_key_here",
        "ELIXIUM_API_URL": "https://your-tenant.elixium.ai/api",
        "ELIXIUM_BOARD_SLUG": "main",
        "ELIXIUM_USER_EMAIL": "you@company.com"
      }
    }
  }
}

Features

Iteration Context Panel

A dedicated sidebar panel showing your board at a glance:

Current stories with lane, points, and state
Backlog stories ready to pull
Objectives with status tracking
Live badge showing story counts
Warm start — loads cached context instantly on startup, refreshes in the background

Click any story to open it in the board or create a git branch.

Story Actions

Manage your workflow from the Command Palette:

Command	What it does
`Elixium: Start Story (Picker)`	Pick a story, get the implementation brief copied to clipboard
`Elixium: Create Story`	Create a story with title, description, lane, and points
`Elixium: Move Story to Lane`	Move a story between Backlog, Icebox, Current
`Elixium: Set Story State`	Set state (started, finished, etc.) with guardrails
`Elixium: Open Story in Board`	Open the selected story in your browser
`Elixium: Create Git Branch from Story`	Generate a branch name from the story title
`Elixium: Copy Implementation Brief`	Get the full implementation context on your clipboard
`Elixium: Copy Hypothesis Template`	Quick hypothesis template for Learning Loop stories

Browse and run any of the 19+ Elixium MCP tools directly from the sidebar. Each tool prompts for required arguments and shows results in a dedicated output panel.

Real-Time Notifications

The extension polls your board every 60 seconds and notifies you when stories change lanes or states — so you know when a story is delivered, accepted, or blocked without checking the board.

Multi-Agent Setup

The setup wizard configures MCP for all your AI agents at once:

GitHub Copilot — .vscode/mcp.json
Cursor — .cursor/mcp.json
Claude Code — .mcp.json
OpenAI Codex — .codex/mcp.json
Windsurf — .windsurf/mcp.json

Each agent gets its own config file with the correct key format. The wizard auto-detects which agents are installed.

Claude Slash Commands

The wizard scaffolds three Claude Code commands in .claude/commands/:

/elixium-start-story — List stories, pick one, get implementation brief
/elixium-board-status — Summarize current iteration with counts and objectives
/elixium-create-story — Guided story creation with hypothesis support

All Commands

Command	Description
`Elixium: Setup Wizard`	Interactive setup for credentials and agent configs
`Elixium: Verify Connection`	Test your MCP connection
`Elixium: Refresh`	Refresh tools list and iteration context
`Elixium: Run MCP Tool`	Run any MCP tool with argument prompts
`Elixium: Start Story (Picker)`	Pick a story and get implementation brief
`Elixium: Create Story`	Create a new story inline
`Elixium: Move Story to Lane`	Move story between lanes
`Elixium: Set Story State`	Change story workflow state
`Elixium: Open Story in Board`	Open story in browser
`Elixium: Create Git Branch from Story`	Generate branch from story title
`Elixium: Copy Implementation Brief`	Copy implementation context to clipboard
`Elixium: Copy Hypothesis Template`	Copy hypothesis template to clipboard

Requirements

VS Code 1.80+
An Elixium.ai workspace with an API key
Node.js 18+ (for MCP server)

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