Todo Pilot

Plan, track, and ship your work without leaving the editor. Priorities, groups, code TODO scanning, and Copilot integration — all committed alongside your repo so the whole team stays in sync.

A VS Code extension for managing tasks directly in your editor — with priority tracking, team collaboration, code scanning, and GitHub Copilot integration.

Features

Tasks Panel

Manage your personal todo list from the Todo Pilot activity bar.

• Add tasks with P1 / P2 / P3 priority and optional group assignment
• Edit tasks — update title, priority, group, and markdown notes
• Mark done / unmark done — done items are tracked separately and can be restored
• Delete tasks individually
• Drag and drop to reorder tasks within a section
• Source file link — optionally attach a file + line number to a task; click to jump directly to it

Priority Levels

Grouping Modes

Toggle between two views using the toolbar button:

Groups

• Add / Rename / Delete groups
• Move tasks between groups
• Clear all items in a group at once

Per-User Collaboration

When multiple teammates commit todo_pilot/todo-pilot.*.json files, each person's list appears as a separate collapsible section in the Tasks panel:

• You — your own tasks (fully editable)
• Collaborator sections — read-only view of teammates' tasks, identified by their git identity
• Tasks cannot be dragged into a collaborator's section

Each user's data is stored in a separate file: todo_pilot/todo-pilot.<identity>.json

Code TODOs Panel

A second panel — Code TODOs — scans your workspace for comment tags and displays them in a tree view.

• Scans for TODO, FIXME, HACK, NOTE, BUG (configurable)
• Grouped by file, then by tag type within each file
• Includes a Tag Stats section with item counts by tag (e.g. TODO/FIXME/BUG)
• Click any item to open the file at the exact line
• Promote to task — right-click any scanned item and select Add to My Tasks to convert it into a tracked todo with a chosen priority and group
• Auto-refreshes on save (300 ms debounce) and on configuration changes
• Save-triggered scanning is incremental (rescans only the saved file)
• Workspace scans use bounded concurrency for better responsiveness in large repos

Scan Targets

By default the Code TODO scanner walks the entire workspace (minus excludes). For very large repos — or when you only care about a few subprojects — switch to Targets mode and list the specific files or folders you want scanned.

• A Scan Targets section appears at the top of the Code TODOs panel showing the current scope (workspace or targets · N).
• Use the filter icon in the panel toolbar to toggle between Workspace and Targets mode, or the + icon to add files/folders via a picker.
• In the file Explorer, right-click any file or folder → Add to Todo Pilot Scan Targets.
• Right-click an entry in the Scan Targets list to remove it; right-click the Scan Targets header in targets mode to clear them all.
• In Targets mode the scanner only walks the listed paths, save-triggered incremental scans ignore files outside scope, and editor highlights only appear for in-scope files. Promoted tasks are unaffected — they remain in your task list regardless of the active scope.
• Scan targets are stored per user (alongside your tasks) and never shared with collaborators.
• The status bar appends a filter icon and target count when Targets mode is on.

Editor Highlighting

Scanned tags are highlighted directly in the active editor:

Highlights also appear in the overview ruler. Can be disabled via settings.

Export to Markdown

Export your full task list (including collaborator items if present) to a formatted .md file, grouped by your current grouping mode.

Status Bar

A status bar item shows your open task counts — P1 · P2 · P3. It turns amber when you have any P1 tasks. When the Code TODO scanner is in Targets mode, a filter icon and the number of configured targets are appended.

GitHub Copilot Integration

Use Copilot to manage tasks hands-free — both through the chat participant and via agent-mode language model tools.

Chat participant — mention @todopilot in Copilot Chat:

@todopilot /add "Fix login timeout bug" P1 Backend
@todopilot /list
@todopilot /list P1
@todopilot /list open
@todopilot /done "login timeout"
@todopilot /delete "login timeout"
@todopilot /update "login timeout" P2 to Frontend as "Fix session expiry"
@todopilot /export

Slash commands:

If a title query matches multiple tasks, Todo Pilot asks you to be more specific instead of changing the wrong task.

Language model tools — available in agent mode; Copilot calls these automatically when you describe tasks in chat:

Pricing

Todo Pilot is free for personal use with optional Pro and Team upgrades for power users and small teams. All plans run fully offline — your data stays in your repo.

_{* Free plan respects the 50 active task cap when adding via Copilot chat.}

How billing works

Your license key never expires. Pay $50 (Pro) or $100 (Team) once and every Todo Pilot version released during the next 12 months is yours to use — forever, on the machines covered by your plan. Renew the following year to keep getting new features and updates. If you don't renew, your existing version keeps working; you simply stop receiving updates.

No telemetry, no online check-ins, no auto-deactivation. Cancel any time without losing access to what you've already paid for.

Trial

Start a 7-day Pro trial from the command palette: Todo Pilot: Start 7-day Pro Trial. No card required. Trials are single-use per machine.

Upgrading from Free to Pro

1. Run Todo Pilot: View Plan (or click the status bar badge).
2. Choose Buy Pro (or Buy Team) — this opens the checkout page in your browser.
3. After payment you'll receive a license key by email. It looks like TP-PRO-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX.
4. Back in VS Code, run Todo Pilot: Enter License Key… and paste the key. Pro features unlock immediately.

The checkout URL can be customised with the todoPilot.license.purchaseUrlPro / purchaseUrlTeam settings if you re-distribute Todo Pilot internally with your own billing system.

Activating a license

Run Todo Pilot: Enter License Key… and paste the key you received after purchase. Keys look like TP-PRO-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX. Activation is fully offline — no network call is made, no telemetry is collected.

Moving to a new machine

Run Todo Pilot: View Plan → Deactivate License on the old machine, then run Todo Pilot: Enter License Key… on the new one. The Pro tier covers 1 machine; Team covers 3.

Manage your plan

Todo Pilot: View Plan (also available from the status bar badge) shows your current entitlement, trial days remaining, and upgrade options.

Buy Pro

Checkout link coming soon. In the meantime, contact ritz.kooverjey@gmail.com for a license key.

Buy Team

Checkout link coming soon. The Team plan covers up to 3 seats at a flat $100/year. Contact ritz.kooverjey@gmail.com to arrange purchase.

Usage

Adding a Task

1. Click the + (Add Item) button in the Tasks panel toolbar, or right-click a group section and choose Add Item.
2. Enter a title, choose a priority, and optionally pick a group.

Promoting a Code Comment to a Task

1. Open the Code TODOs panel.
2. Right-click any scanned comment → Add to My Tasks.
3. Choose a priority and group — the task is added with the tag text as the title and the source file/line linked.

Reordering Tasks

Drag and drop tasks within a priority or group section to set a custom sort order.

Exporting

Click the Export button in the Tasks toolbar and choose a save location. The file is grouped by your active view mode.

Configuration

Data Storage

todo_pilot/
  todo-pilot.<git-email-or-username>.json

Commands

All commands are available via the Command Palette (Cmd+Shift+P / Ctrl+Shift+P) under the Todo Pilot category.