Bohdan Triapitsyn
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Improve OpenChamber responsiveness under large session workloads while fixing cache, synchronization, and persistence correctness across runtimes, projects, directories, and worktrees. - prioritize selected and visible sessions during bootstrap and defer non-critical enrichment work - reduce redundant message loading, event processing, store publication, and hidden sidebar work - prevent stale session and message requests from overwriting newer authoritative state - preserve existing data when authoritative fetches fail instead of treating failures as successful empty responses - scope session materialization, messages, drafts, queues, todos, pins, permissions, folders, tabs, Git state, and pull request data by runtime and directory identity - harden runtime switching, reconnect, cleanup, mutation reconciliation, and persisted-state ordering - preserve live subagent Task linkage when metadata arrives after an older message request or while streaming parts are suspended - coalesce overlapping tail refreshes without losing newer refresh demand - improve cold-session loading by moving deferrable work out of the critical bootstrap path - isolate URL authentication, mobile credentials, native secrets, and other runtime-owned state across endpoint changes - bound long-lived caches and remove avoidable allocations from event and rendering hot paths - limit virtualization to archive collections where it improves rendering without disrupting active sidebar layout - stabilize session folders, pin ordering, expanded state, and persisted sidebar behavior - open skill files through the same secure editor and outside-workspace grant flow used by file navigation, including worktree sessions - expand regression coverage for stale completions, runtime collisions, reconnect behavior, persistence races, authoritative empty results, and subagent refresh ordering - document the updated synchronization, cache ownership, performance, and runtime-isolation invariants
OpenChamber VS Code Extension
OpenCode AI coding agent, right inside your editor. No tab-switching, no context loss.
Like the extension? There's also a desktop app and web version with even more features.
What you get
- Chat beside your code — responsive layout that adapts to narrow and wide panels
- Agent Manager — run the same prompt across multiple models in parallel, compare results side by side
- Right-click actions — add context, explain selections, and improve code in-place
- Click-to-open — file paths in tool output open directly in your editor; edit-style results land in a focused diff view
- Session editor panel — keep chat sessions open alongside files
- Theme-aware — adapts to your VS Code light, dark, and high-contrast themes
Plus everything from the shared OpenChamber UI: branchable timeline, smart tool UIs, voice mode, Git workflows, and more.
Commands
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
OpenChamber: Focus Chat |
Focus the chat panel |
OpenChamber: New Session |
Start a new chat session |
OpenChamber: Open Sidebar |
Open the OpenChamber sidebar |
OpenChamber: Open Agent Manager |
Launch parallel multi-model runs |
OpenChamber: Open Session in Editor |
Open current or new session in an editor tab |
OpenChamber: Settings |
Open extension settings |
OpenChamber: Restart API Connection |
Restart the OpenCode API process |
OpenChamber: Show OpenCode Status |
Debug info for development or bug reports |
Right-click menu
Select code in the editor, right-click, and find the OpenChamber submenu:
| Action | Description |
|---|---|
| Add to Context | Attach selection to your next prompt |
| Explain | Ask the agent to explain the selected code |
| Improve Code | Ask the agent to improve the selection in-place |
Configuration
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
openchamber.apiUrl |
(empty) | URL of an external OpenCode API server. Leave empty to auto-start a local instance. |
openchamber.opencodeBinary |
(empty) | Absolute path to the opencode CLI binary. Useful when PATH lookup fails. Requires window reload to apply. |
Requirements
- OpenCode CLI installed and available in PATH (or set
OPENCODE_BINARYenv var) - VS Code 1.85+
Development
bun install
bun run vscode:dev
bun run vscode:dev now starts watchers + opens an Extension Development Host automatically. Webview UI changes use Vite HMR automatically.
Optional overrides:
OPENCHAMBER_VSCODE_BIN=cursor bun run vscode:devOPENCHAMBER_VSCODE_DEV_WORKSPACE=/path/to/workspace bun run vscode:devbun run vscode:dev /path/to/workspace
To package manually:
bun run --cwd packages/vscode build
cd packages/vscode && bunx vsce package --no-dependencies
Install locally: code --install-extension packages/vscode/openchamber-*.vsix
License
MIT