DevSENSEI 🧠

DevSENSEI is a Socratic programming mentor built right into Visual Studio Code. Rather than simply giving you the direct answers or writing the code for you, DevSENSEI acts as a strict but fair mentor that guides you to analyze, discover, and resolve logic and debugging errors step-by-step.

🚀 Features

• Real-Time Token Streaming: Watch DevSENSEI's guidance appear word-by-word instantly as it is generated, minimizing latency.
• Fully Responsive UI: An adaptive interface styled beautifully down to extremely narrow viewports (supporting sidebar sizing down to 300px) with auto-scaling layout elements and circular logo avatars.
• Socratic Mentoring: Analyze code snippets using a guided dialogue where the AI asks targeted questions to help you learn.
• Premium Customizable Settings: Fine-tune your mentorship experience:
  • Toggle between Strict Socratic, Balanced, and Direct explanation styles.
  • Set preferred conversation language: Auto-detect, Always Bulgarian, or Always English.
  • Configure Chronology limit to save API tokens and speed up response times.
• Universal Selection Keybindings: Highlight any code snippet in active editors and press Cmd+Alt+A (macOS) / Ctrl+Alt+A (Windows) to instantly invoke DevSENSEI.
• Out-of-the-Box Experience: Comes pre-packaged with a secure .env fallback API key, letting you start learning immediately without tedious manual configuration.
• Interactive Webview Chat: Communicate with DevSENSEI via a beautiful, clean, dark-themed sidebar panel.
• Dynamic Action Buttons: Select from context-specific quick follow-up actions custom-tailored to the AI's latest response.

⚙️ Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings to VS Code:

• devsensei.mistralApiKey: Enter your Mistral AI API Key to authenticate the mentor. (Leave empty to use the built-in fallback key).
• devsensei.mistralModel: Choose the Mistral model to use (default: codestral-latest).
• devsensei.language: Lock the conversation language: auto (auto-detects language), bg (always Bulgarian), or en (always English).
• devsensei.maxHistory: Maximum number of messages saved in active conversation context (default: 15).
• devsensei.mentorshipLevel: Select mentorship style: strict (Strict Socratic - default), balanced (Conceptual hints + questions), or direct (Direct explanations + code corrections).

🛠️ Getting Started

1. Open a workspace or file in Visual Studio Code.
2. Select a portion of code you want to debug or analyze.
3. Press Cmd+Alt+A (macOS) / Ctrl+Alt+A (Windows), or right-click and choose "Попитай DevSENSEI" from the context menu.
4. DevSENSEI works out of the box using a pre-configured API key, but you can enter your own Mistral API Key in Settings if you prefer.
5. Engage with the Socratic prompt in the sidebar.

📝 Release Notes

1.2.0

• Premium Customizable Settings: Add dynamic conversation language locking, custom chronology/context limit configuration, and adjustable mentorship styles (Strict Socratic, Balanced, Direct).
• Universal Keybindings: Built-in Windows (Ctrl+Alt+A) and macOS (Cmd+Alt+A) keybindings.
• Pre-packaged Fallback API Key: Added packaged .env file containing default key fallback for a zero-configuration out-of-the-box user experience.
• Terminal selection removed: Cleaned up the extension to purely focus on text selections in code editors.

1.1.1

• Extension Brand Icon: Added a professional logo/icon for DevSENSEI.

1.1.0

• Instant Response Streaming (SSE): Integrated token-by-token response streaming for real-time interactive mentoring.
• Highly Responsive UI: Added bulletproof CSS flexbox layout constraints and responsive media queries supporting narrow extension sidebars down to 300px beautifully.
• Complete ESLint validation pass with zero errors.

1.0.2

• Initial release of DevSENSEI.
• Webview panel integration with interactive Socratic dialogue.
• Dynamic quick action buttons based on conversation state.
• Robust error handling and API payload sanitization for Mistral AI.