Auralis

Auralis is a VS Code theme system built from the supplied design mockups. It ships four calibrated color themes, custom file icons, a product icon theme, complete editor profiles, and optional editor ambience commands that use official VS Code extension APIs.

Published by Bertrand Mbanwi · Auralis under the permanent Marketplace publisher ID auralis-labs.

Status

Private beta. The extension is installable and packageable, but Marketplace profile details and final Marketplace copy still need a human visual QA pass.

Variants

• Auralis Noir: cinematic dark, amber/magenta accents, high-contrast editor surface.
• Auralis Frost: dark cyan/violet with a glassy technical feel.
• Auralis Paper: warm light theme for daylight work.
• Auralis Botanica: quiet forest dark theme with green/amber syntax.

Previews

What Ships

• Four real VS Code color themes in themes/*.json.
• Custom SVG file icons, including Terraform/HCL, Rust, Docker, env, lockfiles, and themed folders.
• Auralis Product Icons for built-in workbench glyphs such as Explorer, Search, Source Control, Testing, Chat, Notebooks, and Extensions.
• Complete profiles that apply color theme, file icons, product icons, bracket guides, minimap behavior, semantic highlighting, and optional ambience together.
• Semantic token coverage for modern TypeScript/React, Rust, Python, Go, Terraform/HCL, YAML/JSON, Markdown/MDX, Docker, and common languages.
• Bracket-pair and bracket-guide colors using VS Code theme color keys.
• Optional commands:
  • Auralis: Apply Complete Experience
  • Auralis: Switch Theme Variant
  • Auralis: Enable File Icons
  • Auralis: Enable Product Icons
  • Auralis: Toggle Focus Field
  • Auralis: Toggle Blame Ghosts
  • Auralis: Toggle Edit Heatmap
  • Auralis: Clear Edit Heatmap

Profiles

• Auralis Noir: Deep Work applies Noir, both icon themes, focus field, edit heat, bracket guides, inlay hints, and a productive minimap.
• Auralis Frost: Systems applies Frost with crisp technical UI surfaces, both icon themes, edit heat, and low visual drag.
• Auralis Paper: Daylight applies Paper with reduced ambience and no minimap for a quieter light-mode setup.
• Auralis Botanica: Calm Infra applies Botanica with gentle focus shading and edit heat for Terraform-heavy work.

Reality Boundary

A VS Code theme can color the workbench, syntax, semantic tokens, bracket pairs, minimap, terminal, tabs, list rows, diagnostics, and SCM state.

The richer mockup ideas such as focus-field shading, blame ghosts, and edit heat are implemented as extension decorations. Gradient buttons, animated command palette headers, custom titlebar layout, and arbitrary DOM-level restyling are not supported by the VS Code extension model and should not be shipped through unsupported CSS injection.

Local Development

npm install
npm run validate
npm run dev

npm run validate regenerates the themes, icon theme, Marketplace icon, and preview images. npm run dev opens a fresh VS Code Extension Development Host with the sample files. You can also open this folder in VS Code and press F5 using the Run Auralis Extension launch config.

To install the packaged extension in your normal VS Code:

npm run package
code --install-extension auralis-theme-system-0.1.3.vsix --force

Reload VS Code after installing the VSIX.

Packaging

npm install
npm run validate
npm run package

Before publishing, create or confirm the auralis-labs Marketplace publisher ID used in package.json.

Publishing

See:

• docs/BETA_QA.md
• docs/RELEASE_CHECKLIST.md
• docs/PUBLISHING.md
• docs/PERFORMANCE.md
• docs/VERIFICATION.md
• docs/SECURITY_MODEL.md
• docs/DEFENSIBILITY.md
• docs/MARKETPLACE_COPY.md