Escape AI Assistant

AI coding assistant extension for VS Code and VS Code-compatible editors (e.g. Cursor): chat, inline completions, code actions, and RAG-backed workspace context.

Included

• Chat sidebar webview provider (escapeAI.chatView)
• Streaming inline completion provider
• Workspace save indexing through /rag/ingest/text
• RAG retrieval through /rag/query
• Status bar indexing state
• RAG ignore rules for dependency folders, build outputs, virtualenvs, binary files, generated files, and files larger than 1 MB
• Commands:
  • escapeAI.openChat
  • escapeAI.explainSelection
  • escapeAI.refactorSelection
  • escapeAI.fixSelection
  • escapeAI.generateFromComment

Required Settings

• escapeAI.apiBaseUrl defaults to http://localhost:8000
• escapeAI.authToken must contain a valid JWT for authenticated backend calls
• escapeAI.ragAutoIndexEnabled controls on-save indexing
• escapeAI.ragTopK controls retrieval depth

Publishing

This extension is published manually via the Marketplace web UI (marketplace.visualstudio.com/manage), not vsce publish — no Marketplace Personal Access Token is configured yet (Azure DevOps org creation for the escape-ai account hit a blocker; revisit vsce publish once that's sorted, it enables one-command auto-incrementing releases).

To cut a new release:

./scripts/release.sh patch   # or minor / major

This bumps the version, adds a placeholder CHANGELOG entry (fill it in for real before publishing), and rebuilds escape-ai-assistant-<version>.vsix. Upload that file via the publisher's Update button on the Marketplace. Installed users get it automatically — VS Code auto-updates extensions by default, no separate configuration needed.