AI Statusbar

Fast, compact VS Code status for AI-assisted work:

24w87L~420t  G+156−42 9f  🤖 3

• 24w: words in the selection
• 87L~420t: lines and estimated tokens in AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, or SKILL.md
• G+156−42 9f: Git lines added, removed, and files changed
• 🤖 3: active Codex, Claude Code, Cursor Agent, or Pi sessions in the workspace

Performance

Editor and Git updates are event-driven and debounced. Git results are cached per repository, only changed repositories are scanned, and at most two scans run at once. Agent scans never overlap. Active commands stop when VS Code loses focus.

Settings

Higher values reduce background work in large repositories. Changes apply without reloading VS Code.

Limits

Git and process commands run only in trusted, local-file workspaces. Multi-root workspaces are combined.

The extension uses VS Code's Git API when available. Its fallback scans only top-level workspace folders. Untracked files count as changed files, but not as added lines. Binary files report zero changed lines. Large command output is limited to protect the extension host.

Agent detection uses ps and /proc on Linux, lsof on macOS, and PowerShell on Windows. Processes that cannot be tied to the workspace are ignored.

Install locally

Requires Node.js 22 or newer.

npm ci
npm run package:vsix -- --out /tmp/ai-statusbar.vsix
code --install-extension /tmp/ai-statusbar.vsix

Publish

The extension ID is tngo.ai-statusbar under the existing tngo publisher.

1. Open Marketplace publisher management.
2. Follow the VS Code publishing guide.
3. Prefer Microsoft Entra ID for automated publishing.

New global Azure DevOps PAT creation ended March 15, 2026, and existing global PATs retire December 1, 2026. The included manual GitHub workflow can use only an existing compatible VSCE_PAT from main. Otherwise, use Entra authentication or upload the VSIX manually. Never commit a token.

Development

npm install
npm run check
npm run build

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