Ack-AI
Acknowledge your AI-generated code before it hits production.
Ack-AI is a VS Code extension that enforces a "Human-in-the-Loop" workflow. It scans your source code for AI generation tags and highlights them with a warning until a human developer explicitly acknowledges ("acks") them.
Why Ack-AI?
AI coding assistants (Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude) are powerful, but they can introduce subtle bugs or security hallucinations.
Ack-AI ensures that no AI-generated code remains in your codebase without a human explicitly "signing off" on it.
It turns the @ai-gen tag into a mandatory review checkpoint.
Features
- Real-time Monitoring: Instantly detects
@ai-gen tags in your code.
- Visual Warning: Highlights unverified AI code with a Warning squiggly line.
- The "Ack" Workflow: The warning persists until you append
ok to the tag.
- Context Aware: Highlights not just the comment, but the entire code block (function/class body) following it.
- File-level Tags: Add
// @ai-gen at the top of a file to mark the entire file as AI-generated.
- Multi-language Support: Works with 25+ programming languages using language-appropriate comment syntax.
How it Works
1. The Warning State
When you paste or generate code with the tag @ai-gen, Ack-AI flags it immediately.
2. The Acknowledged State
To clear the warning, you must review the code and explicitly "Ack" it by adding ok to the tag.
Supported Languages
Ack-AI supports a wide range of programming languages:
- JavaScript (
.js, .jsx, .mjs, .cjs)
- TypeScript (
.ts, .tsx, .mts, .cts)
- PHP (
.php)
- Java (
.java)
- C/C++ (
.c, .cpp, .h, .hpp)
- C# (
.cs)
- Go (
.go)
- Rust (
.rs)
- Swift (
.swift)
- Kotlin (
.kt, .kts)
- Scala (
.scala)
- Dart (
.dart)
- Groovy (
.groovy)
- Objective-C (
.m, .mm)
- Ruby (
.rb)
- Shell/Bash (
.sh, .bash, .zsh)
- Perl (
.pl, .pm)
- R (
.r, .R)
- YAML (
.yml, .yaml)
- Dockerfile
- Makefile
- CoffeeScript (
.coffee)
- PowerShell (
.ps1)
- Elixir (
.ex, .exs)
Configuration
No configuration needed! Just install and start reviewing.
- Trigger:
@ai-gen
- Safe Keywords:
ok (Case insensitive)
- Rejected Keywords:
rejected, reject (marks code as explicitly rejected)
Installation
- Open VS Code.
- Press
F1, type ext install, and search for Ack-AI.
- Click Install.
Always verify.
