Acurast Studio

Deploy serverless jobs to the Acurast decentralized compute network — without leaving VS Code.

Manage encrypted wallets, edit acurast.json, estimate cost, and deploy to Mainnet or Canary from a single panel. The bundled @acurast/sdk handles signing, IPFS upload, and submission — no hand-editing .env.

What is this?

Acurast is a decentralized serverless compute network built on a Substrate chain. Acurast Studio wraps the @acurast/sdk inside VS Code so you can go from script to a live, on-chain job in a few clicks — wallet creation, IPFS upload, cost estimate, and submission all happen in the editor.

Who it's for: developers building and shipping jobs to Acurast who want a guided UI instead of juggling the CLI, raw mnemonics, and .env files.

Features

• 🧰 All-in-one Studio panel — a dedicated activity-bar view for wallets, project config, deployment, and history.
• 🔐 Encrypted wallet vault — create, import, rename, and delete sr25519 wallets. Mnemonics are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM + PBKDF2 (210k iterations) inside VS Code's SecretStorage, so even a keychain dump still needs your password.
• 🚀 One-click deploy — packages your script, uploads it to IPFS, and submits the job to Mainnet or Canary.
• 💸 Cost estimation — preview ACU spend before you deploy, with optional fiat conversion (CoinGecko / CoinMarketCap).
• 📜 Deployment history — a persistent, cross-workspace log of every deploy: project path, tx hash, IPFS hash, and job IDs.
• 🔗 On-chain history — fetch your live job registrations straight from the chain, with schedule, slots, reward, required modules, and a derived status (active / scheduled / expired).
• ✅ acurast.json integration — JSON schema validation, multi-config workspace support, and right-click "Set as active config".
• 📊 Live balance — wallet balance refreshes every 30 seconds while you're on the Wallets view.

Coming soon

• 📡 Live monitoring — stream logs and runtime metrics from your running jobs directly in the editor.

Getting started

1. Install Acurast Studio from the Marketplace.
2. Open a workspace that contains an acurast.json — or run Acurast: Init Project to scaffold one (this step uses the acurast CLI).
3. Click the Acurast logo in the activity bar to open the Studio panel.
4. Create or import a wallet, fund it, then hit Deploy.

The extension auto-activates as soon as a workspace contains an acurast.json.

Configuration

Note: acurast.network sets the network you monitor (balance, history, status bar). Deploys always use the network field in your acurast.json. If the two differ, Acurast Studio shows a one-click prompt to align them.

Commands

All commands live under the Acurast category in the Command Palette (Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+P).

(Additional wallet commands — copy address, set active, delete, edit description — are also available under the same category.)

Requirements

• VS Code 1.120 or newer
• A workspace containing an acurast.json file (use Acurast: Init Project if you don't have one yet)

Security

Your seed phrase never leaves your machine in plaintext. Each mnemonic is encrypted with AES-256-GCM, keyed by PBKDF2-SHA256 (210,000 iterations, OWASP 2023 guidance), and the ciphertext is what's stored in VS Code SecretStorage. Revealing a mnemonic always requires your password.

Links

• 🌐 Acurast website
• 📦 @acurast/sdk on npm
• 🐙 Source & issues on GitHub

❤️ Support development

Acurast Studio is built and maintained independently. If it saves you time, a small donation directly funds new features and ongoing maintenance. 🙏

Prefer to connect a wallet? Use the donation page — a non-custodial page to send ACU or DOT straight from Polkadot.js / Talisman / SubWallet. You can open it (or copy the addresses) from the Home panel in the extension too.

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome — see the repository.

npm install
npm run build:dev   # build extension + webview with sourcemaps
npm run watch       # watch both bundles in parallel
npm run typecheck   # type-check without emitting
npm test            # unit + integration tests

License

MIT