Your AI Context Control Center for GitHub Copilot and Cursor. Analyse prompts, trim noisy tabs, track session cost, and send better context — all locally, no data leaves your machine.
What You Get
📋 Context Tab
Token status — See how many tokens your open tabs consume (green/yellow/red)
Token-Optimized Prompt — Mentions a function like processPayment? TokenDock inlines the exact code so Copilot doesn't load whole files. Shows token savings vs full-file context
Uncommitted Changes — Lists files with git changes so you can open them for Copilot to see your latest work
Large Open Tabs — Big files eating your token budget. Close the ones you don't need
Git History Insights — Scan your repo's commit history to find files that usually change together with what you're working on
Mode Recommendation — Suggests Ask vs Agent vs Plan based on prompt complexity (Ask is 25× cheaper than Agent for simple questions)
✏️ Prompt Tips Tab
12+ rule-based checks — Catches vague language, missing #file: refs, filler phrases, multi-task prompts, no stopping condition, missing output format, and more
Suggested Prompt — A rewritten version of your prompt that's clearer and more specific. Copy or send to chat with one click
Local AI enhancement — Optionally use Qwen via Ollama for smarter prompt rewrites (rule-based works without it)
📊 Session Tab
💰 Session cost — Real $ spent in your current chat session
⚡ Response speed — Tracks how fast Copilot responds. If it's slowing down, start a new chat
🧠 Context window fill — How full your chat memory is. Over 80% = Copilot starts forgetting earlier messages
♻️ Cache reuse — % of tokens reused from cache. Higher = cheaper follow-ups. Stay in one chat to keep this high
🔧 Tool usage — Which Copilot tools (file reads, edits, terminal) are used most in your session
📜 Cross-session history — Aggregate stats across all your past Copilot chats in this workspace
How to Use
Click the 🤖 TokenDock icon in the Activity Bar (left sidebar)
Context tab — close noisy tabs, open missing files, review inline code extraction
Prompt Tips tab — expand any tip for details, copy the suggested prompt
Session tab — monitor cost, speed, and cache reuse
Works With
VS Code — full support
Cursor — works with fallback for Cursor's chat commands
Local AI Setup (Optional)
TokenDock is fully functional without Ollama — rule-based suggestions work out of the box. Enable Ollama only if you want Qwen 2.5 Coder to rewrite your prompts.
One-time install
brew install ollama
ollama pull qwen2.5-coder:7b
Turning Ollama ON
Cmd+Shift+P → TokenDock: Start Ollama (Qwen)(or open a terminal and run ollama serve yourself)
