AIDLC

Drive Claude through any pipeline you declare in a single workspace.yaml — visually from VS Code, or from the terminal. Agents, skills, pipelines, and epics share one source of truth; both surfaces stay in sync within ~200ms.

Features

• Workspace Builder — main-area panel with agent / skill / pipeline cards, reorder, on-failure toggle, inline skill editor
• Epics & runs — bind a pipeline to a work item, then walk it step-by-step. Approve advances; reject cascades feedback to the producing step (auto-resets downstream); rerun with optional new context
• Sidebar webview — live agent / skill / pipeline counts, active runs, and the slash commands declared in workspace.yaml
• Load Demo Project — one click drops a full SDLC pipeline + 6 sample epics into .aidlc/, no YAML to write
• Add Skill wizard — 4 sources: load template, paste markdown, upload a .md file, or open a blank file. Starter templates: hello-world, code-reviewer, test-converter, doc-writer, release-notes
• Add Agent wizard — id, display name, skill picker, model picker (Sonnet 4.6 / Opus 4.7 / Haiku 4.5)
• Add Pipeline wizard — chain agents with on-failure behavior (stop / continue)
• Workspace templates — save the whole workspace as a named preset and reapply it in any project. Built-ins: code-review, release-notes, sdlc
• Built-in Claude CLI terminal — one-click zsh terminal in the bottom panel with the claude CLI auto-launched
• Workspace inspector — dump the parsed, validated, env-resolved workspace.yaml to the output channel
• Interactive walkthrough — open the Welcome page → "Get started with AIDLC" for a 6-step tour

How It Works

The extension reads .aidlc/workspace.yaml from the open folder and uses @aidlc/core to validate the schema (Zod), resolve env variables, load skills and agents, and execute pipelines through the Claude CLI runner.

.aidlc/
├── workspace.yaml          # agents · skills · pipelines · sidebar layout
├── skills/                 # markdown prompts for each skill
├── epics/                  # work items bound to a pipeline
└── runs/                   # state of every run, watched live by both UIs

Both the extension and the aidlc CLI read and write the same files atomically — switch between them mid-run without losing state.

Getting Started

1. Install AIDLC from the VS Code Marketplace or Open VSX.
2. Open a workspace folder.
3. The Welcome page auto-opens the Get started with AIDLC walkthrough — follow it for a guided tour, or skip ahead with the steps below.
4. Run AIDLC: Load Demo Project — scaffolds a full pipeline plus 6 sample epics under .aidlc/.
5. Click the AIDLC icon in the activity bar to open the sidebar; pick an epic to run.
6. Use AIDLC: Open Claude CLI Terminal to drive runs (or run pipelines unattended) from the CLI.

Prefer to start from scratch? Use AIDLC: Init Sample Workspace instead — it scaffolds an empty .aidlc/workspace.yaml plus a hello-skill.md.

Commands

All commands are available via Cmd+Shift+P (or Ctrl+Shift+P):

Requirements

• VS Code 1.85.0+ (or compatible: VSCodium, Cursor, Windsurf)
• A workspace folder (single-file mode is not supported)
• The Claude CLI on PATH for the default runner
• Node.js 20+ to compile from source

License

MIT