Bohdan Triapitsyn
de1b85ac56
Complete rebuild of voice input on a server-authoritative streaming architecture, replacing the legacy Web Speech / whole-blob / WASM engines and the dead voice-agent layer (~4k lines removed). Speech-to-text (dictation): - Client streams 16 kHz mono PCM16 chunks over /api/dictation/ws with seq/ack ordering; buffered audio is retained and replayed on reconnect - Server transcribes and streams live partial transcripts back; segments auto-commit every ~15s with silence suppression and adaptive finalization timeouts - Local provider (default, zero config): sherpa-onnx models in a forked worker process — auto-download with progress, staged extraction with verification, corrupt-model auto-recovery, idle shutdown after 5 min - Model catalog with settings picker (accuracy/speed ratings, sizes, download/delete): Parakeet TDT v2 (English) and v3 (25 European languages, auto-detected), Whisper base and tiny (multilingual, light) - OpenAI-compatible provider for any Whisper endpoint - Composer overlay with live transcript, volume meter, timer, and cancel / insert / insert-and-send actions; failed transcriptions keep their audio for retry or accepting the partial text as-is - Configurable keyboard shortcut (default mod+alt+v) toggles dictation; Enter confirms and Escape cancels while recording - Overlay is pixel-aligned with the composer (measured footer height, matching paddings/typography/gaps) — no layout shift when toggling Text-to-speech: - Local Kokoro provider (English, 11 voices) synthesized in the same worker via /api/dictation/tts/speak, managed by the shared model pipeline; sentence-pipelined playback keeps time-to-first-audio at ~1 sentence regardless of message length, and stop cancels in-flight synthesis - Sanitizer keeps inline-code content (strips backticks only), reads interword slashes aloud, and removes only absolute file paths Settings: - Voice page unified: a single read-aloud toggle owns all playback options (the confusing "Enable Voice Mode" is gone); a new "Enable voice input" toggle (default on, persisted to settings.json) hides the composer mic entirely when disabled Mobile and transport: - iOS/Android microphone permissions added (dictation was previously impossible on mobile) - Fixed Android WebSocket upgrades: the Capacitor WebView origin (https://localhost) was missing from the packaged-client allowlist, 403-ing every WS connection — root cause of the old mobile SSE lock, which is now removed for all transports Security and conventions: - All HTTP routes sit behind the global /api auth gate; the WS upgrade explicitly validates the UI session and origin, with oc_url_token narrowly allowlisted and covered by tests; the dictation socket mints a fresh URL token before connecting - Routes register before the generic OpenCode proxy; the client goes through runtimeFetch/getRuntimeUrlResolver, and runtime switches reset the dictation socket - VS Code deliberately reports dictation as unavailable (no server process in that runtime) CI: workflow Node bumped 20 -> 22 to match the repo engines and fix better-sqlite3 installs broken by node-gyp@latest on Node 20. New dependency: sherpa-onnx-node (prebuilt N-API; macOS/Linux x64+arm64, Windows x64 — Windows-on-ARM falls back to the OpenAI-compatible provider)
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