The tenon coding agent in VS Code.
The extension is a thin ACP client: tools, permissions, sandboxing, masking,
routing and audit all stay in tenon acp. The extension makes no network call
and sends no telemetry.
Install
Install tenon-code-eu.tenon from the VS Code Marketplace or Open VSX. Each
platform package (macOS and Linux, arm64 and x64) bundles the tenon binary, so
you need nothing else. Windows is not supported.
To use another build, set tenon.path to its absolute path in your user
settings. Otherwise the extension uses the bundled binary, then tenon on your
PATH. tenon 0.9.0 or later is required.
Use
Chat. Click the tenon icon in the activity bar. Open a folder first. Enter
sends, Shift+Enter adds a line, Stop ends the turn. Type / for the project
skills. The Sessions list resumes an earlier session.
Context. Cmd+Alt+K (Ctrl+Alt+K) attaches the selection to your next
message. Right-click a file, in the Explorer or the editor, to attach it.
Permissions. tenon asks before it writes, runs a command or calls an MCP
tool. Answer on the card in the chat, or in the notification when the panel is
hidden. Closing the notification refuses. Stop refuses every pending request.
Diffs.Open diff shows a change in the VS Code diff editor, read-only.
Status bar.tenon · <provider> · <EU|non-EU|local> · <sandboxed|not sandboxed>. A provider outside the EU shows in the warning colour.
"sandboxed" means tenon confines the shell commands. When tenon stops, the
bar shows tenon alone.
Terminal mode. Cmd+Esc (Ctrl+Esc) opens the tenon terminal interface beside
the editor. While it is visible, Cmd+Alt+K (Ctrl+Alt+K) types a reference to
the selection into it, such as @src/a.go#L10-20. The key works only while
the tenon terminal is the active one. If you set
terminal.integrated.commandsToSkipShell yourself, add
tenon.insertReference to your list.
Logs.tenon: Show Logs opens the output channel. tenon: Restart
restarts tenon.
The interface is in English or French, following VS Code.
