Issue tracker in IDE: integrates with Jira, GitHub, BitBucket, Slack, and more

Built for engineers:

• Create & view code issues directly from your editor
• Track & prioritise code improvements like technical debt
• Add key issues to your sprints with our Jira integration

Address key technical debt and ship 50% faster.

Your code never leaves your machine.

Find out more about our security below, and about our full offering on stepsize.com.

You'll need to create an account

🔐 This extension complements the Stepsize web app and the other integrations. You'll need to register to use it. 🔐

Removing this requirement is on our roadmap, but we're a small team and the backlog is packed 😅

Create & view code issues directly from your editor

Select any snippets, files, or folders to create an issue tied to this code. Ideal for technical debt spanning multiple parts of your codebase.

Issues are displayed next to the code they relate to, even as it’s modified. Ideal to understand the tech debt and maintenance work to be done in the code you’re looking at.

Track & prioritise code improvements like technical debt

Monitor and share progress addressing tech debt and clearing maintenance tasks with the Stepsize web app. Ideal to promote ownership of codebase health in engineering teams.

Add key issues to your sprints with our Jira integration

Add codebase iprovements to your sprints and roadmap with our Jira integration. Ideal to clear tech debt in the way of upcoming features.

Does Stepsize upload my code to the cloud?

No, your code never leaves your machine.

We only store metadata about your code. When you create an issue, this is the kind of data we store:

{
  "repoUrl": "https://github.com/Stepsize/tyrion",
  "filePath": "src/panels/PanelRouter.tsx",
  "commitHash": "4bcda11e3140a68921b71ac998e87f81ba595e35",
  "lineStart": 1,
  "lineEnd": 10
}

This allows us to:

• Annotate your code to show you the issues it's linked to
• Build URLs to your code where it's hosted (e.g. GitHub) so that you can view it from our web app
• Allow you to open code directly in your editor from our web app (coming soon)

See our full information security guide for more info.

Adding Stepsize as a recommended extension

We recommend you add Stepsize as a recommended extension to help your team discover it and easily add it to their workflow – managing tech debt is a team sport!

Add this snippet to your project's .vscode/extensions.json file:

{
  "recommendations": ["stepsize.stepsize"]
}

Get in touch & give us your feedback

We're keen to hear from you to improve our service!

License

For now this extension is released as proprietary software with an end-user license agreement.

It looks a bit scary, but basically it says "this is free beta software, use it at your own risk". It points out that we collect some telemetry data to improve the extension, and that feedback you give us is our intellectual property.