Listing Generator — VS Code Extension

Interactive UI for working with Listing Generator CLI: context generation, section management, sending to AI — all in the familiar VS Code interface.

What is this

VS Code Extension for Listing Generator — a graphical interface for the powerful CLI tool for creating AI contexts.

The extension automates routine tasks:

• No need to remember commands — all actions through panels and buttons
• Visual configuration — modes, tags, file filters in convenient forms
• Instant sending to AI — integration with Copilot, Cursor, Claude, OpenAI API from one button
• Live statistics — see context size and token usage before sending

Key Features

Control Panel

Central management panel:

• Selection of contexts and sections from lg-cfg/
• Adaptive settings: operation modes (ask/agent, planning/development/review), tag sets
• Dynamic description of current task (task context)
• Tokenization management (tiktoken, HuggingFace tokenizers, sentencepiece)

AI Integration

Direct sending of contexts to AI:

• Clipboard — copying for any chat
• GitHub Copilot — sending to Copilot Chat
• Cursor Composer — integration with Cursor IDE
• Claude CLI — via terminal client
• OpenAI API — direct network sending (token storage via VS Code Secrets)

Automatic detection of available providers on first run.

Visualization and Diagnostics

• Included Files Tree — tree of files included in the context after filtering
• Stats Webview — detailed statistics by tokens, file grouping, savings from adapters
• Doctor — environment diagnostics, lg-cfg/ migrations, cache status

Automation

• Auto-install via pipx — automatic CLI installation with version pinning (zero config)
• Watcher on lg-cfg/ — live update of sections/contexts lists when configuration is edited
• Config migrations — built-in support for lg-cfg/ format migrations (CLI compatibility)

Quick Start

1. Install the extension from VS Code Marketplace (or from .vsix file)
2. Open a project with lg-cfg/ — the extension will automatically activate
3. First run: Extension will automatically install CLI via pipx (requires pipx on your system)
4. Open the "LG — Control Panel" in the Activity Bar sidebar
5. Select a context/section, configure modes and tags, click "Send to AI"

If you don't have lg-cfg/ yet — use the "LG: Create Starter Config" command to initialize the standard structure.

Documentation

• Listing Generator CLI — main documentation on CLI and lg-cfg/ format
• Templates and Contexts — prompt templating
• Adaptive Features — modes, tags, conditional logic
• Language Adapters — listing optimization

Settings

Main parameters (Settings → Extensions → Listing Generator):

• lg.ai.provider — provider for sending to AI (clipboard, copilot, cursor, claude.cli, openai.api)
• lg.developerMode — enable Developer Mode to test unreleased CLI versions (default: false)
• lg.python.interpreter — path to Python interpreter in CLI dev venv (Developer Mode only)
• lg.openAsEditable — open results as editable files (instead of read-only virtual documents)

License

VS Code Extension for Listing Generator is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
See the LICENSE file for the full license text.