Local, configurable screen-break, posture, and hydration reminders with transparent session details.
Runs quietly in the background and fires reminders at configurable intervals. While monitoring, it shows the next reminder in the status bar and counts local document edit events for the current VS Code session.
Features
Posture reminders — gentle nudges to sit up and unclench shoulders
Screen-break reminders — configurable prompts to look away from the editor
Hydration nudges — water reminders at a configurable interval
Persistent local session details — monitoring duration and document edit-event count survive VS Code restarts
Auto-start — activates on VS Code launch when devWellbeing.enabled is true
Requirements
No external tools required. Works entirely within VS Code using native notifications.
Reminders
Type
Default
Description
Posture
Every 45m
Sit up, unclench shoulders
Screen break
Every 20m
Take a short pause from the editor
Hydration
Every 60m
Have some water
Commands
Command
Description
Dev Wellbeing: Start Monitoring
Start all reminder timers
Dev Wellbeing: Stop Monitoring
Stop all reminders
Dev Wellbeing: Show Session Stats
Local monitoring duration + document edit events
Dev Wellbeing: Configure Thresholds
Open settings
Dev Wellbeing: Reset Local Session Details
Clear the locally stored session baseline and edit-event count
Auto-starts on VS Code launch if devWellbeing.enabled is true.
Privacy and scope
Dev Wellbeing stores only the local session start time and document edit-event count in VS Code global extension storage. It makes no health, stress, or diagnostic inference and sends no data anywhere. The edit-event count is not a keystroke count.
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