Mark it now, ask about it later — inside your editor. Select code or text,
attach a query to each selection, and batch-send them all to Claude Code or
Codex as one composed prompt. Sibling of the Dogear Chrome extension (in
extension/ in the same repo); they share the same theme, prompt templates,
and queue model.
Develop / install
cd vscode
npm install
npm run build # copies shared files from ../extension and bundles src/
Run from source: open the vscode/ folder in VSCode and press F5
(Extension Development Host).
Install for real: npx @vscode/vsce package then
code --install-extension dogear-vscode-0.1.0.vsix.
media/theme.js, media/prompts/, and media/fonts/ are build-time copies —
the source of truth lives in ../extension/. Edit there, rebuild here.
Usage
Select text in any editor → press ⌃⌥Q (Mac) / Ctrl+Alt+Q (Windows/Linux),
or right-click → Dogear: Add query for selection.
Type your query (or leave it empty to fill in later) and press Enter. The
selection gets a highlight; the query lands in the queue (badge on the
Dogear icon in the Activity Bar).
Repeat across as many files as you like — the queue is per-workspace and
survives restarts.
Open the Dogear sidebar (Activity Bar) to edit, reorder (drag cards or whole
file groups), or delete queries. Click a file header to jump to the anchored
code.
Deliver the batch:
→ Claude Code / → Codex reuses the active matching terminal when
possible (or another existing matching terminal), places the composed
prompt at its input, and waits for you to press Enter. It creates a CLI
terminal only when none exists, and falls back to copying if the CLI isn't
on your PATH.
Copy prompt puts it on the clipboard for anywhere else.
Markdown previews and AI chat views
In VS Code's built-in Markdown preview, select rendered text and press
⌃⌥Q / Ctrl+Alt+Q, or right-click → Dogear: Add selected preview text.
The same right-click capture is available in Codex and Claude Code chats.
This webview path briefly uses the clipboard and restores its previous
contents immediately.
VS Code isolates webviews from other extensions, so preview and chat
captures are excerpt-only: they can be queued and included in a batch
prompt, but Dogear cannot persist a highlight or navigate to the exact
rendered passage or chat message.
Highlights re-anchor after edits by exact text + surrounding context, and the
line numbers in the composed prompt follow along.
Notes
The queue lives in the workspace, so questions about repo A never show up
while you're in repo B.
Neither the Claude Code nor Codex VSCode extensions currently accept a
programmatic prompt into their chat panels
(anthropics/claude-code#27873);
that's why delivery goes through their CLIs.
