entracte — earn AI credits while your agent works

A credit wallet in your status bar, plus an opt-in sponsor inside your editor's AI agent. Sign in once to turn each impression — shown while your agent thinks — into AI credits you can spend on Claude, ChatGPT, or any model. Or switch the display to motivation quotes or dev-news and never see an ad.

Nothing shows until you sign in, so no unpaid impressions ever run on you.

What it does

A credit wallet in the status bar. Your balance (◆ entracte · $X) sits at the right of the status bar — a clean readout, never an ad.
An opt-in in-agent sponsor. One tasteful sponsor card appears inside the editor's AI agent — Cursor Composer, VS Code Copilot & the Agents view, and OpenAI Codex — only while it's thinking, and disappears when it's done.
Sign in once (OAuth device flow — approve in your browser, no password typed into the editor) to attribute those impressions to your publisher and earn AI credits, spendable on Claude, ChatGPT, or any model.
Prefer no ads? Switch the display to motivation quotes or dev-news with one command — the card then shows content instead of a sponsor, and earns nothing.
Fires the view beacon only while the window is focused, so advertisers pay for real attention, never for a backgrounded window.

Works in VS Code, Cursor & Windsurf

Published to both the Visual Studio Marketplace (VS Code) and Open VSX (Cursor, Windsurf, and other VS Code-compatible editors). The same build runs everywhere.

Privacy

entracte is built to be a sponsor you can actually trust:

Cookieless. No cookies, no device fingerprint, no cross-site identifiers. Views and clicks are counted server-side with a one-time token.
No telemetry. We collect no analytics about you or your usage.
Reads no code or prompts. The extension never reads your files, editor buffers, or anything you type — only your publisher slug goes out, to ask for one sponsor.
The status-bar wallet never patches the editor — it uses only the public VS Code API.
The in-agent sponsor is opt-in and reversible. There's no public API to render inside the editor's agent, so — only when you explicitly enable it — entracte adds a small, self-contained script to the editor (and, for Codex, to that extension's own webview). Disable it anytime to restore the original files. It's off by default.
Your sign-in token is kept in the editor's encrypted SecretStorage.

Commands

Run these from the Command Palette (or click the status-bar item for the menu):

Command	What it does
`entracte: Sign in & earn`	Device-flow sign-in to attribute earnings to you
`entracte: Enable in-agent sponsor`	Show the sponsor inside the editor's agent (opt-in, reversible)
`entracte: Enable Codex sponsor`	Same, inside the OpenAI Codex chat
`entracte: Show sponsors (earn)`	Show sponsors — you earn AI credits
`entracte: Show motivation quotes`	Switch the display to quotes — no ads
`entracte: Show dev news`	Switch the display to dev-news — no ads
`entracte: Refresh the balance`	Fetch fresh earnings now
`entracte: Sign out`	Forget your token and stop earning

Settings

Setting	Default	What
`entracte.enabled`	`true`	Show the entracte wallet in the status bar.
`entracte.apiUrl`	`https://api.entracte.ai`	Base URL of the entracte ad API. Change only if you self-host.
`entracte.publisher`	`entracte`	Advanced: the publisher slug used for anonymous serves. Signing in overrides this and is how earnings are attributed to you.

Install

VS Code — install entracte from the Extensions view (Visual Studio Marketplace).
Cursor & Windsurf — install it from Open VSX via the Extensions view.
Sideload — grab the .vsix from the releases and run Extensions ▸ … ▸ Install from VSIX…, then reload.

After installing, click the status-bar item (or run entracte: Sign in & earn) to sign in and start earning.

License

PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0.

Made by entracte — RGPD-native sponsorship for the surfaces developers actually live in.