Benefit's Toolkit

Quality-of-life tools for Claude Code inside VS Code, bundled into a single extension.

Five features in one place:

RTL — Right-to-left support in the Claude Code chat (Active / Always / Auto modes), for Hebrew, Arabic, Persian.
Sounds — Audio notification when Claude finishes a message or asks for your input. Pick any sound from a shared library for each event; reused sounds are flagged so you can keep the two distinct.
Chats — A sidebar list of your past Claude Code conversations. Rename, archive, restore, search, export to Markdown, view inline — with file links in the viewer that open the file right in VS Code.
Colors — Give each VS Code window its own color (title, activity and status bars), so five open projects stop looking identical. Pick from the Colors panel or a custom hex.
HTML Open — One-click "Open in External Browser" for HTML files: a button in the editor title bar and an Explorer right-click entry. Uses the system default browser, or set benefit.htmlOpen.browserPath to force a specific one (e.g. Chrome).

Install

From the VS Marketplace — search for "Benefit's Toolkit" in the Extensions view, or:

code --install-extension benakiva.benefits-toolkit

Offline / pre-release builds can be installed from the packaged .vsix on the GitHub releases page.

After installing, look for the activity bar icon — it opens the Claude Chats sidebar.

Configuration

All settings live under benefit.*. Each feature has an enabled toggle so you can disable individual features without uninstalling the extension.

Status

This is a fresh release built by Ben Akiva. Tested primarily on Windows.

Inspired by

This toolkit was inspired by the experience of using these community extensions in parallel:

Claude Code RTL by Yechiel Brand
Claude Chats by Alex Zanfir
claude-sound-hooks — Claude Code hooks for audio notifications

No code from those extensions is included here — this is a clean-room rewrite.

Sound credits

The bundled notification/finish sounds are royalty-free effects from Pixabay (Pixabay Content License — free for commercial use, no attribution required) and Mixkit (Mixkit License — free for commercial projects, no attribution required). Credits are kept here as a courtesy to the creators (e.g. universfield, dragon-studio, soundshelfstudio, phoenix_connection_brazil).