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Kubito - Your Coding Companion

Kubito - Your Coding Companion

Kubit

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An interactive and animated companion for your VS Code editor. Kubito walks around, jumps and shows programming messages that adapt to time and day, including productivity stats and reminders.
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Kubito

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Meet Kubito, your coding companion that brings joy to your development workspace!

Kubito Demo

✨ What Kubito Does

  • 🤖 Walks Around: Kubito walks back and forth in your Explorer
  • 🦘 Autonomous Fun: Kubito waves, talks and pauses randomly
  • 🎮 Interactive: Click to make Kubito jump, or grab and throw him with realistic gravity, bounce, and momentum across your screen!
  • 💬 Smart Messages: Context-aware messages that adapt to time and day (Monday Blues, Friday Feeling, Working Late)
  • 📁 Development Reactions: Kubito reacts to your coding activities - file saves, Git commits, and pushes
  • 📊 Productivity Tracking: Smart reminders for breaks and water, plus coding metrics to track your productivity
  • 🏆 Coding Metrics: Track lines of code, session time, and get productivity insights
  • 🌍 14 Languages: Multilingual support for a global audience

🚀 Getting Started

  1. Install → Search "Kubito" in VS Code Extensions and click Install
  2. Find Him → Look for "Kubito" section in your Explorer sidebar (left panel)
  3. Expand & Watch → Click to expand if collapsed and watch Kubito start walking
  4. Code: Kubito reacts to your development workflow - save files, commit, or push to Git and see his responses!

🎮 How to Interact

Action What Happens
👀 Hover over him See a nice glow effect
🖱️ Click on him Make Kubito jump!
🎯 Drag & Drop Grab and throw Kubito anywhere - he'll fall with physics!
⏰ Watch and wait Kubito autonomously walks, pauses, and jumps
💾 Save a file Kubito shows reassuring save reactions
✅ Git commit Kubito celebrates your commits with messages
🚀 Git push Kubito cheers when you push your code!
💧 Productivity Kubito reminds you to take breaks, drink water
📊 View Metrics Use "Kubito: Show Productivity Metrics" command
🌍 Change language Messages adapt to your preferred language
📁 Expand/Collapse Control Kubito's section like any sidebar panel

⚙️ Settings

Access in: Settings > Extensions > Kubito

  • Auto Show → Automatically show Kubito when opening VS Code (default: on)
  • Language → Choose from 14 languages or auto-detect from VS Code (default: auto)
  • Contextual Messages → Show time and day-appropriate messages (default: on)

🎬 Event Reactions

Configure Kubito's responses to your development activities:

  • File Save Reactions → Show reactions when saving files (default: on)
  • Git Commit Reactions → Show reactions when making Git commits (default: on)
  • Git Push Reactions → Show reactions when pushing to Git remotes (default: on)

🚀 Productivity Features

Enhance your coding workflow with intelligent reminders and metrics:

  • Smart Reminders → Enable break, water, and posture reminders (default: on)
  • Break Interval → Minutes between break reminders (15-120) (default: 30)
  • Water Interval → Minutes between water reminders (20-180) (default: 45)
  • Show Metrics → Display coding metrics like lines written and session time (default: on)
  • Metrics Interval → Minutes between metrics updates (30-300) (default: 60)

🌍 Supported Languages

Kubito speaks your language! All messages, reminders, and productivity features are fully localized in:

  • 🇪🇸 Spanish (Español) - Native support
  • 🇺🇸 English - Native support
  • 🇫🇷 French (Français) - Native support
  • 🇩🇪 German (Deutsch) - Native support
  • 🇵🇹 Portuguese (Português) - Native support
  • 🇮🇹 Italian (Italiano) - Native support
  • 🇳🇱 Dutch (Nederlands) - Native support
  • 🇯🇵 Japanese (日本語) - Full localization
  • 🇰🇷 Korean (한국어) - Full localization
  • 🇨🇳 Chinese Simplified (中文简体) - Full localization
  • 🇷🇺 Russian (Русский) - Full localization
  • 🇵🇱 Polish (Polski) - Full localization
  • 🇸🇦 Arabic (العربية) - Full localization (RTL supported)
  • 🇹🇷 Turkish (Türkçe) - Full localization

Kubito automatically detects your VS Code language setting, or you can manually select your preferred language in the extension settings.

💡 Tips & Tricks

  • Can't see Kubito? Make sure your Explorer panel is open (folder icon in sidebar)
  • Section collapsed? Click the arrow next to "Kubito" to expand
  • Want more space? You can resize the Explorer panel by dragging its edge
  • Want to see event reactions? Try saving a file or making a Git commit - Kubito will celebrate with you!
  • Too many reactions? You can disable file save, commit, or push reactions in Settings → Extensions → Kubito

🤝 Support & Feedback

Found a bug or have a suggestion? Reach out to us at kubit@opendigitalservices.com

If you enjoy this extension, please consider leaving a ⭐ rating

🎨 Credits & Acknowledgments

Inspired by the VS Code Pets extension and the need for a personal Kubito while coding!

Made with ❤️ by the Kubit team.

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