VS Code integration for Tryke — a fast Rust-powered test runner for Python.
Tests show up in the native VS Code Test Explorer. Run, debug, and watch tests with inline pass/fail gutter decorations and per-assertion diagnostics routed through Tryke's JSON event stream.
Requirements
Tryke installed and on PATH (or set tryke.command to its full path).
A workspace containing a pyproject.toml.
Install Tryke with your package manager of choice:
Test Explorer integration — discover, run, and debug Tryke tests from the VS Code sidebar.
@test.cases parametrized tests — each case (square[zero], square[one], …) appears as its own item with full fidelity.
Server mode — EXPERIMENTAL - IDE communicates with Tryke over an LSP-style client/server connection.
Direct mode — spawns tryke test per run.
Watch mode session — streams results from tryke as files change.
Changed-files runs — optionally limit runs to tests affected by your git diff.
Dedicated output channels — Tryke for extension activity, Tryke Server for piped server logs (stderr; stdout carries the RPC session).
Commands
Command
ID
Tryke: Start Server
tryke.startServer
Tryke: Stop Server
tryke.stopServer
Tryke: Restart Server
tryke.restartServer
Settings
Setting
Default
Description
tryke.command
tryke
Path to the tryke executable.
tryke.python
null
Python interpreter for spawned workers, passed as --python (requires tryke ≥ 0.0.26). Supports VS Code variables: ${workspaceFolder}, ${workspaceFolder:NAME}, ${userHome}, ${env:VAR}. Example: ${workspaceFolder}/.venv/bin/python3 (Unix) or ${workspaceFolder}/.venv/Scripts/python.exe (Windows). When unset, tryke uses bare python/python3 from PATH, which usually fails unless your venv is active in the spawning environment. Alternatively set [tool.tryke] python in pyproject.toml.
tryke.mode
direct
Runner mode: direct spawns a process per run. server is EXPERIMENTAL - IDE communicates with Tryke over an LSP-style client/server connection.
tryke.server.logLevel
info
Maps to TRYKE_LOG=<level> on the server child env. Surfaces both rust and python worker logs in the Tryke Server output panel on tryke versions that honor TRYKE_LOG (the release after 0.0.26); ignored on earlier versions.
tryke.workers
null
Number of worker processes. Passed as -j in direct mode and --workers in server mode.
tryke.failFast
false
Stop after the first failure (--fail-fast).
tryke.maxfail
null
Stop after N failures (--maxfail).
tryke.dist
null
Work distribution (test, file, group).
tryke.markers
null
Tag/marker filter (-m).
tryke.changed
off
Run only --changed tests, --changed-first, or off.
