AI OS Care

Preview. A read-only view of what the wsl-care daemon measures inside WSL: memory, swap, disk, containers, the biggest holders and what each cleanup would free — in the status bar and in a side panel. Windows with WSL only; the daemon is installed separately, inside the distribution (the panel's Install daemon types the command for you).

What you see

• The status bar — WSL RAM <used>% · swap <x>G · <n> containers, coloured by the worst memory or kernel warning the daemon reports; "WSL stopped" when the distribution is not running. A click opens the panel.
• The panel (the AI OS Care icon in the activity bar) — Memory, Top holders, Swap, Disk, Folders, Containers, Container starts, Cleanup (what each cleanup would free, read-only), Health. A figure the daemon could not read says why ("unavailable — reason"); a row this version cannot fill yet says so; nothing is shown as a made-up 0.

Read-only, and quiet

• It asks the daemon four questions and nothing else: status --json, preview --all --json, doctor --json and --version. It never runs a cleanup, never changes the daemon's settings, and never runs anything with elevated rights.
• A stopped WSL is never started. Before each question it asks wsl.exe whether the distribution is running; when it is not, nothing is called in it. Start WSL and check in the panel is the one button that starts it.
• Only the focused VS Code window polls, every wslCare.refreshSeconds seconds (default 120), and only for status.
• No telemetry and no network calls of its own.

Install the daemon

The extension shows what the daemon reports; the daemon itself is installed in the distribution by its release's install.sh. When the panel says daemon not installed, Install daemon (also AI OS Care: Install daemon… in the command palette) shows the exact command and what the distribution needs, then opens a terminal in that distribution with the command typed but not run — you read it and press Enter:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oleksandrdubyna88/wsl_care/refs/tags/daemon-v0.1.0/install.sh | sudo sh -s -- --version 0.1.0

The distribution needs systemd, Ubuntu 24.04 or newer (glibc 2.39), gh 2.56.0 or newer from GitHub's apt repository (the installer verifies the release's build-provenance attestation with it; no gh login is needed) and sudo. The installer checks each of these and stops before it changes anything when one is missing.

Settings

Both are user settings only ("scope": "application"), so a repository's .vscode/settings.json cannot change them:

Requirements

• Windows 10/11 with WSL 2. The extension runs on the Windows side (also in a Remote – WSL window); on any other system it says "Windows + WSL only" and asks nothing.
• VS Code 1.85 or newer.
• The wsl-care daemon in the distribution (see above).

Source, issues and licence

Source and issues: github.com/oleksandrdubyna88/wsl_care. MIT licence. Every release's .vsix is also attached to its GitHub release, with a build-provenance attestation.