A launchpad for your scripts. Keep any .sh, .js, .py (and more) in one place, group them, and run each one in a terminal with a click, the same as if you had opened it yourself.
Using it
Open Scriptor: the activity-bar icon, or the Scriptor: Open Scriptor command. The dashboard shows your scripts as cards, grouped, with a search box (/ focuses it).
Add script: pick a file with Browse… or type its path (~ works). The name is optional and defaults to the file name. Choose a group if you want one.
New group: a name and a color. Run all on a group opens every script of it, each in its own terminal.
Run: opens a terminal named after the script, in the script's folder, and types the command. Each run is a new terminal, so a running server is never interrupted.
Sidebar: the Scripts view lists the same scripts with an inline ▶. Right-click for edit, open the file, reveal, remove.
Run Script… in the Command Palette runs any script from a quick pick.
Removing a script or a group only removes it from Scriptor; files are never touched. A script whose file is gone is marked Not found.
How a script is run
The interpreter comes from the file extension:
Extension
Command
.sh.bash / .zsh
bash / zsh
.js.mjs.cjs
node
.ts
npx tsx
.py
python3 (python on Windows)
.rb.php.pl.lua.go
rubyphpperlluago run
.ps1
pwsh -File (powershell on Windows)
.bat.cmd and anything else
the file itself (needs a shebang and the executable bit on macOS and Linux)
Under Advanced a script can have its own interpreter (e.g. /venv/bin/python -u; quote it yourself if its path has spaces), arguments, and working directory. The path is quoted for your terminal's shell (bash/zsh, PowerShell, cmd).
Scripts and groups are stored in VS Code's global state on this machine; they are not synced, because the paths are machine-specific.
