Kabibi Shell for VS Code

Kabibi provides an interactive shell in VS Code's integrated terminal and separate terminal tools for Copilot Agent mode. The extension does not attach Copilot to a visible Kabibi, CMD, or Bash terminal.

Features

• Open 🐚︎ Kabibi from the terminal profile picker or with 🐚︎ Kabibi: Open Shell. Running terminal tabs use the short label 🐚︎ Kb.
• Use exec to run a command in a fresh shell execution session.
• Use term_read, term_input, and term_kill only with a background job ID returned by exec.
• Read and write the open workspace from Kabibi at /workspace.

Normally completed exec calls discard their shell session. A command that outlives its foreground timeout is ejected into a managed background job; its ID remains valid until it exits, is terminated, or the extension's idle lease expires.

Kabibi's own AI assistant and AI fallback are disabled in extension-launched shells. This does not disable Copilot's separate Kabibi tools.

Requirements

• Visual Studio Code 1.99 or newer.
• Copilot Chat in Agent mode to use the contributed language model tools.
• Workspace Trust for shell execution. Kabibi does not run in untrusted workspaces because shell commands can modify files and start processes.

Browser-only VS Code hosts use Kabibi's browser washmhost and virtual filesystem. Desktop and remote Node extension hosts use the Node washmhost for host process execution. The available native PTY addon depends on host platform and architecture.

Development and packaging

Run the extension's Node tests with npm test. Runtime assets (including the kabibi.mohabbat container), native PTY addons, and the 128px Marketplace PNG generated from the repository's kabibi.svg are staged by the repository release builder before vsce package is run. Manual acceptance fixtures and screenshots are excluded from the VSIX.

See the repository's VS Code implementation and acceptance plan for the host matrix and exhaustive manual validation procedure.