Rabta Connector

Connects your editor to the Rabta desktop app so it can capture and restore your workspace — the open files, terminals, and folder — as part of a task.

Rabta is a local-first "shared brain" for your dev tools. It snapshots the state of a task (editor, terminals, git branch, and browser tabs) into a capsule and restores it on demand when you switch back. This extension is the editor half, and works in VS Code and Cursor.

Privacy

• Local-first. It talks only to the Rabta app on 127.0.0.1 — no cloud account, no servers, no telemetry.
• No sign-in. It authenticates with a per-run secret the Rabta app writes to a local file; nothing you do leaves your machine.
• Nothing is captured until you save a capsule in Rabta.

Requirements

The Rabta desktop app must be installed and running. Install this extension, open your editor, and it connects automatically — it appears under Connectors in Rabta.

For contributors

The fake connector under connectors/fake stays in the tree as the SDK reference implementation — this real extension does not replace or deprecate it.

Build

pnpm --filter rabta-vscode build

Development

Run in VS Code or Cursor with the extension development path:

cursor --extensionDevelopmentPath="$PWD/connectors/vscode" /path/to/a/repo

Or in VS Code:

code --extensionDevelopmentPath="$PWD/connectors/vscode" /path/to/a/repo

Test

pnpm --filter rabta-vscode test