Empathy Framework for VS Code

AI-powered code health, pattern learning, and cost optimization for VS Code.

Features

All Empathy commands available via Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+P:

Command	Description
`Empathy: Morning Briefing`	Start-of-day productivity report
`Empathy: Pre-Ship Check`	Pre-commit validation pipeline
`Empathy: Fix All Issues`	Auto-fix lint and format issues
`Empathy: Learn Patterns`	Extract patterns from git history
`Empathy: View API Costs`	Cost tracking dashboard
`Empathy: Open Dashboard`	Visual web dashboard
`Empathy: Sync to Claude Code`	Sync patterns to Claude

Activity bar icon opens three views:

Patterns: Browse learned bug patterns
Health: Code health status
Costs: API usage and savings
- The By tier (7 days) breakdown is documented in ../docs/dashboard-costs-by-tier.md.
- The Cost Simulator (beta) card lets you experiment with different provider presets and tier mixes to estimate weekly costs and savings.
Memory (Beta): Redis and pattern storage control panel
- View Redis status and memory usage
- Browse stored patterns with classification badges (PUBLIC/INTERNAL/SENSITIVE)
- Export patterns to JSON
- Run system health checks
- Clear short-term memory

pip install empathy-framework

Setting	Default	Description
`empathy.patternsDir`	`./patterns`	Patterns directory
`empathy.empathyDir`	`.empathy`	Empathy data directory
`empathy.pythonPath`	`python`	Python executable
`empathy.showStatusBar`	`true`	Show status bar item
`empathy.autoRefresh`	`true`	Auto-refresh data
`empathy.refreshInterval`	`300`	Refresh interval (seconds)
`empathy.memory.apiHost`	`localhost`	(Beta) Memory API host
`empathy.memory.apiPort`	`8765`	(Beta) Memory API port
`empathy.memory.autoRefresh`	`true`	(Beta) Auto-refresh memory status
`empathy.memory.autoRefreshInterval`	`30`	(Beta) Refresh interval (seconds)
`empathy.memory.showNotifications`	`true`	(Beta) Show operation notifications

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Compile
npm run compile

# Watch mode
npm run watch

# Package extension
npm run package