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Bohdan Triapitsyn 1231fd773e feat: improve VS Code dev flow and stabilize sidebar/chat behavior (#754)
* fix: improve session sidebar tooltip and truncation behavior

- Keep new-draft tooltip anchored to its trigger button
- Fix minimal-mode worktree/group header text truncation
- Tune minimal-mode right padding to reduce early label clipping

* fix: render reasoning through markdown pipeline

- Use Streamdown rendering for reasoning in live chat mode
- Remove italic styling from reasoning text
- Render expanded reasoning content with MarkdownRenderer

* chore: remove legacy electron dependencies

- Removed unused Electron packages from root and UI manifests
- Deleted obsolete Electron context menu type declaration
- Regenerated lockfile after dependency cleanup

* fix: handle non-repository folders in git status API

- Prevent 500 errors when status is requested outside a valid Git repo
- Improve repository detection using `git rev-parse --git-dir`
- Reduce noisy server logs for expected non-repo status checks

* fix unloaded session chat layout flicker

* fix: reduce noisy TTS status polling

Cache and dedupe TTS status requests, and only check provider availability when the related voice features are enabled so disabled voice setups stay quiet.

* perf: throttle background PR git status refreshes

* fix: improve VS Code Explorer file drop mentions in chat

- Add Explorer context action to insert selected files as @mentions.
- Handle Explorer drag-and-drop to prefill @file mentions instead of attachments.
- Prevent duplicate plain-path text when dropping multiple files.

* fix: deduplicate recent sessions in VS Code sidebar

- Hide sessions from main list when already shown in recent
- Apply dedup only in VS Code runtime
- Keep session search behavior unchanged

* feat: add true HMR dev flow for VS Code extension

- Load VS Code webview from Vite dev server with React refresh preamble
- Add `vscode:dev` runner that starts watchers and opens Extension Development Host
- Update VS Code dev docs and scripts to use the new HMR startup flow

* feat: polish VS Code session sidebar and attachment UX

- Add resizable sessions sidebar in VS Code layout
- Tighten session list spacing and hover behavior in VS Code
- Remove bulk file/image attach success toasts while keeping error toasts
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OpenChamber VS Code Extension

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OpenCode AI coding agent, right inside your editor. No tab-switching, no context loss.

VS Code Extension

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_BINARY env 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:dev
  • OPENCHAMBER_VSCODE_DEV_WORKSPACE=/path/to/workspace bun run vscode:dev
  • bun 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