Claude Dev Kit — VS Code extension

Editor-native governance surfaces for tierward. Claude Code's native VS Code extension is chat-centric and exposes no public extension API, so governance data — doctor health, the skill/rule registry, audit findings — never reaches the editor's own surfaces. This extension fills that gap with tree views, status-bar indicators, and Problems-panel diagnostics.

Status: P1. A Governance view in the Activity Bar lists the project's skills and rules (click to open), and the Claude Dev Kit: Run Doctor Report command runs the doctor. Status bar, diagnostics, and codelens land in later phases.

How it works

The extension shells out to your installed tierward CLI (the same approach the Tierward MCP server uses) and renders the results in VS Code. It runs no governance logic of its own — the CLI owns all governance decisions.

Requirements

• The tierward CLI on your PATH, or set tierward.cliPath to its absolute path.
• A workspace folder that contains a .claude/ directory.

Settings

Development

npm install
npm run compile     # esbuild → dist/extension.js
npm run typecheck   # tsc --noEmit
npm test            # node --test on the backend

Press F5 from this folder to launch an Extension Development Host with the extension loaded.