🐾 VS Code Pet
A delightful, interactive, and lightweight virtual pet companion living inside your VS Code Explorer sidebar.
Bring fun, warmth, and companionship to your coding workspace! VS Code Pet gives you customizable virtual pets (Cats, Dogs, Rabbits, Hamsters, Foxes, and Penguins) that explore your sidebar, play with balls, celebrate your successful builds and test runs, gain levels/XP, and keep you company as you code.
✨ Features
- 🐾 Multiple Pet Companions: Adopt and raise Cats, Dogs, Rabbits, Hamsters, Foxes, and Penguins.
- ⚽ Interactive Throw Ball: Toss a ball into the playground and watch your pets excitedly chase, jump, and catch it!
- 🍖 Feed, Pet, and Play: Care for your pets to increase their mood, recover energy, and satisfy hunger.
- 🏆 Gamification & XP Progression: Pets gain experience from coding sessions, interactions, and celebrations, unlocking higher levels!
- 🎨 Rich Theme Playground:
- Auto: Blends seamlessly with your active VS Code theme
- Minimal: Clean developer monochrome
- Dark Studio: Deep developer dark background
- Cyberpunk: Glowing futuristic neon playground
- Forest: Peaceful nature meadow
- Deep Space: Cosmic starfield
- Ocean: Calming aquatic blue waters
- 8-Bit Retro: Pixel-art arcade style
- 🎩 Accessories: Customize your companions with Top Hats, Developer Headphones, Smart Glasses, Sunglasses, Bows, Crowns, and Coding Backpacks!
- 💻 Developer-Aware Reactions: Pets celebrate on green builds and passed tests (
🎉), react empathetically on test failures (😿), and fall asleep when you step away (💤).
- ⚡ Node.js & Express Architecture: Powered by a secure local Express API server with strict token authorization and zero external network calls.
- 🔒 Privacy-First & Secure: Strict Content Security Policy (CSP), local-only execution, zero code inspection, and 100% telemetry opt-in.
- ♿ Accessible: Includes
reduceMotion accessibility mode, keyboard navigation support, and sound mute by default.
🚀 Getting Started
- Open the VS Code Extensions view (
Ctrl+Shift+X or Cmd+Shift+X).
- Search for VS Code Pet and click Install.
- Look at the bottom of your Explorer sidebar (
Ctrl+Shift+E or Cmd+Shift+E) to meet Luna, your first companion!
- Click the ➕ Add button or run
VS Code Pet: Add Pet to adopt more pets.
🎮 Controls & Interactions
| Action |
Description |
| 🍖 Feed |
Give your pet a snack to reduce hunger and boost mood. |
| ❤️ Pet |
Show love to your pet to increase happiness and XP. |
| 🎾 Play |
Play an active game with your pet. |
| ⚽ Throw Ball |
Toss a bouncing physics ball across the playground! |
| 🎨 Theme |
Change the playground background theme. |
| ⏸️ / ▶️ Pause |
Pause all movement for distraction-free focus mode. |
| Click on Pet |
Opens the pet vitals & stats overlay (Level, XP, Mood, Hunger, Energy). |
⚙️ Configuration & Settings
You can customize VS Code Pet in Settings (Ctrl+, -> search vscodePet):
{
"vscodePet.enabled": true,
"vscodePet.theme": "auto",
"vscodePet.maxPets": 5,
"vscodePet.animation": true,
"vscodePet.animationSpeed": 1.0,
"vscodePet.sound": false,
"vscodePet.soundVolume": 0.4,
"vscodePet.developerReactions": true,
"vscodePet.reduceMotion": false,
"vscodePet.telemetry": false
}
🔒 Security & Privacy
VS Code Pet follows strict enterprise security standards:
- Local-only Express Backend: Bound strictly to
127.0.0.1 on ephemeral ports with randomized token validation.
- Strict Webview CSP: No remote script execution, no
eval(), nonce-enforced script execution.
- Privacy Guarantee: We never inspect, scan, read, or send your source code, tokens, environment variables, or files.
🛠️ Development & Building
# Install dependencies
npm install
# Build extension and webview bundle
npm run build
# Run comprehensive test suite
npm test
# Package to VSIX
npm run package
📄 License
MIT © VS Code Pet Contributors
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