Orchid Language for VS Code

Syntax highlighting and editor support for Orchid (.orch files) -- a cognitive choreography language for LLM agent orchestration.

Features

Syntax highlighting for all Orchid constructs:
- Reasoning macros (CoT, RedTeam, ELI5, Debate, etc.)
- Meta operations (Confidence, Trace, Checkpoint, etc.)
- Control flow (if/elif/else, for, while, until, fork, try/except)
- Tags (<deep>, <retry=3>, <private>, etc.)
- Directives (@orchid, @name, @requires)
- MCP/Plugin tool calls (filesystem:read_text_file(...))
- String interpolation ("$variable", "${expression}")
- Agent and macro definitions
- Atomic blocks (### ... ###)
Auto-indentation for blocks
Bracket matching and auto-closing
Comment toggling (#)

Installation

From VSIX (local install)

cd editors/vscode
npx @vscode/vsce package
code --install-extension orchid-0.1.0.vsix

From source (development)

Open the editors/vscode folder in VS Code
Press F5 to launch the Extension Development Host
Open any .orch file to see highlighting

About Orchid

Orchid is a domain-specific language where reasoning is the primitive. Instead of writing code that calls an LLM API, you write scripts that describe how an agent should think.

sources := fork:
    academic: Search("quantum computing breakthroughs")
    industry: Search("quantum computing applications")

vetted := CoVe(sources)
analysis := CoT(vetted)<deep>

if Confidence(analysis) > 0.7:
    Formal(analysis)<cite>
else:
    ELI5(analysis) + Explain("uncertainty areas")

Learn more at https://github.com/Orchid-DSL/orchid

Orchid Language