Run My Tasks

A VS Code extension that gives you fast access to all workspace tasks via a status bar button, a keyboard shortcut, and a dedicated side panel with virtual groups.

Features

Status bar button — a ▶ Tasks button appears in the status bar. Click it to open a searchable picker with all tasks defined in the workspace (including tasks from extensions like npm, gulp, etc.).

Keyboard shortcut — press Ctrl+Shift+T (or Cmd+Shift+T on macOS) to open the same picker from anywhere.

Side panel — a "Run My Tasks" view in the Activity Bar is split into two sections:

• Groups — virtual groups you create to organize and batch-run tasks. Each group has inline Run All and Stop All buttons. Tasks within a group can be reordered with Move Up / Move Down (right-click menu) or by dragging. Groups themselves can also be reordered the same way.
• Tasks — all workspace tasks listed by source. Tasks show a green spinning indicator while running and have inline Run / Stop buttons. Right-click a task to add it to a group.

Drag and drop — drag a task from the Tasks view onto a group header in the Groups view to add it to that group. Drag a task within the Groups view onto another task to reorder, or onto a different group header to move it.

The picker groups tasks by source (Workspace tasks first, then extension-contributed tasks in alphabetical order) and optionally shows the underlying shell command or npm script as a detail line.

Requirements

• VS Code 1.90.0 or later
• At least one task defined in .vscode/tasks.json or contributed by an installed extension

Configuration

All settings are under the runMyTasks namespace and can be changed in Settings (Ctrl+,) by searching for "Run My Tasks".

Example settings.json

{
  "runMyTasks.statusBarAlignment": "right",
  "runMyTasks.statusBarPriority": 200,
  "runMyTasks.showTaskType": false
}

Commands

License

MIT