AutoCode Task Chat for VS Code

Early preview. Install from the Marketplace as ankurkothari.autocode-task-chat.

code --install-extension ankurkothari.autocode-task-chat

The AutoCode CLI must be installed separately. Provider-backed execution requires a supported Linux host; this extension does not bundle the CLI or model backends. Full interactive and live-model qualification is incomplete.

A thin client for AutoCode task runs. It starts the autocode CLI, reads the status view, and takes the action the view names. It imports nothing from tools/ and never reads state.json.

Chat in the sidebar, give plan feedback, approve a reviewed plan, and continue with follow-up messages in the same run. Composer and scroll behavior adapt selected Kilo Code components; see attribution. It never launches a model on its own, cannot approve a plan it has not displayed, and keeps issued tokens in the child's environment rather than on the command line.

• Documentation: docs/vscode.md
• The contract it implements: docs/task-run.md
• Issue: #884

npm ci
npm run build
npm test
code .          # then F5 for the Extension Development Host

npm test runs the CLI-facing helper tests plus controller and registered-command regressions with a substituted VS Code host. It also executes the generated webview script in jsdom, covering chat history, feedback/follow-ups, stale approval, polling while typing, model selection, Markdown, and composer/scroll behavior. These tests launch no providers. They do not qualify the actual VS Code host or a live model route. Full release qualification remains incomplete.

Current editor and live results: qualification record.

Create a distributable with npm run package. This builds the bundled runtime and includes its license, icon and third-party notices. Packaging does not publish the extension or qualify its live workflow.