That deploy command with four flags. The one docker incantation that actually works. The test filter you rebuild from memory every single time.

Put them in the sidebar. Hit ▶.

What you get

One click to run. Every snippet runs in a dedicated terminal that gets reused, not respawned. Close it and the next run brings it back.

Groups that make sense. Build, deploy, database — collapsible sections, drag a snippet to another group from the row. Delete a group and your snippets survive as Ungrouped.

Find it instantly. Live search across name, command and description. Sort by name, newest, recently edited or recently run.

Never lose a command again. Everything you run lands in History with a relative timestamp. Re-run it, or save that ad-hoc one-liner as a proper snippet.

Keyboard first. Cmd+Alt+R / Ctrl+Alt+R opens a QuickPick of every snippet, most recently used first.

Share with your team. Project snippets live in .vscode/command-snippets.json. Commit it and your teammates get the same commands on clone.

Your AI agent can manage them. Ships with an MCP server — see below.

Quick start

1. Click the terminal icon in the Activity Bar.
2. ＋ → New snippet, paste your command, save.
3. Hover the row and hit ▶. That's it.

Let your AI agent handle it

"add a snippet for running the e2e tests against staging"

Command Snippets bundles an MCP server, so Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop or any MCP client can list, create, edit, group and delete your snippets — and the sidebar updates the moment they do.

Run Command Snippets: Copy MCP Server Config from the Command Palette, then paste. Or:

claude mcp add command-snippets -- node <extension-path>/dist/mcp-server.js

In VS Code itself there is nothing to configure at all: Copilot agent mode picks up #commandSnippets, #newCommandSnippet, #updateCommandSnippet and #deleteCommandSnippet automatically.

About letting a model touch your terminal

Writing snippets is harmless. Running them is not, so that half is locked down:

• run_snippet does not exist unless you flip commandSnippets.mcp.allowRun on and VS Code is open. An agent cannot call a tool it never sees.
• No tool anywhere accepts a free-form command string — only the id of a snippet you already saved. Prompt injection has nothing to execute.
• Every run still asks you first, showing the exact command. Say no and the agent is told.

Your data stays yours

Plain JSON, on your disk, editable by hand:

Both files are watched, so an edit in your editor (or by an agent, or from git pull) shows up in the sidebar immediately. Export and import as JSON any time.

Commands & settings

Contributing

npm install
npm run watch     # rebuild on change
npm test          # unit + MCP integration tests
npm run package   # typecheck + production bundle

Then press F5 for an Extension Development Host.

Issues and PRs welcome: github.com/aftandilmmd/vscode-command-snippets

See CHANGELOG.md for release notes.

License

MIT