OuterBot for VS Code

The AI coding assistant that never loses context.

OuterBot remembers everything across sessions — what you built, what you decided, what went wrong, and how you fixed it. Even after VS Code restarts, even across different projects.

What makes OuterBot different

Most AI assistants start fresh every session. OuterBot doesn't.

After each conversation, OuterBot extracts structured knowledge from your session and persists it: the tech stack you're using, the key decisions you've made, the problems you've solved, and what's still open. The next time you open your project, all of that context is already loaded — the AI picks up right where you left off.

As you build more projects, OuterBot also learns cross-project patterns. If you solved a tricky deployment issue in one project, that insight automatically surfaces when you're working on a similar stack somewhere else.

Features

• Chat directly in VS Code — sidebar panel or editor split, with keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+O / Cmd+Alt+O
• Session persistence — conversation history saved to your project, survives restarts
• Knowledge index — AI-extracted insights from each session, injected at session start
• Cross-project memory — patterns from one project help in others with overlapping tech stacks
• Model flexibility — use your own OpenAI or Anthropic API key, or upgrade to a managed plan
• Chat history — browse and restore past conversations per project

Getting started

1. Sign up at outer.bot — free account, bring your own API key
2. Install this extension
3. Open your project folder in VS Code
4. Click the OuterBot icon in the Activity Bar and start chatting

That's it. OuterBot scaffolds everything else automatically the first time.

Requirements

• A free OuterBot account at outer.bot
• An Anthropic or OpenAI API key (free Community plan), or upgrade to Pro for managed AI
• A workspace folder open in VS Code

Keyboard shortcuts

Plans

AI credits for Pro are sold at cost (no markup) and never expire.

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Privacy

Your code and conversations are processed by your chosen AI provider (Anthropic or OpenAI) using your own API key. Session context is stored locally in your project at .outerbot/. OuterBot does not store your code on its servers.

Support

• Website: outer.bot
• Issues: GitHub Issues

OuterBot — because your AI assistant should remember what you told it.