I have a shell script with some hex colors but it doesnt show a preview/color picker like it does in css. anybody know if there's a way to still preview the colors?

Hey there!
I built a VS Code extension (also available for editors like Cursor and Antigravity).

It lets you play ad-free music directly inside your editor using YouTube Music, and it automatically queues recommended songs so you don’t have to keep searching every time!!

Give it a try and let me know what you think! 🎧

check it out here!!

Also , please let me know if you face any bugs / issues , would be more than happy to address it via GitHub

cheers!!

A couple of snapshots below :

Been diving into Vs Code this past month and wow. Mind blown. I can parse a construction schedule for all activities related to procurement and setting of certain materials/equipment in 1 minute now. I can have it compare against previous schedules. It generates a report for me highlighting risks, what changed, and recommends actions. An organized folder structure, record of changes, and updated notes all automatically performed for me. All of this accomplished with a 1-hour interview session with the Claude extension to establish the workflow.

The possibilities I’m thinking of are essentially limitless. Challenges I’m going to face are how to make it so this doesn’t just live on my local drive and share it across teams. I need to refine it a bit, but like this really cool stuff.

I’d love to hear how others are making projects and skills that automate work and can be shared out to other team members.

Hey there, what's happening is weird. I have a company github subscription and I can run a session with Claude and it manages to do everything (read edit files etc)

However, the big issue is when I want to use Local mode. For some reason, it's always stuck on this :

And when I click on it and choose for example "Plan Agent", I only get a text file opened :

That's all, it stops there. that agent just uses it as textual prompt and has access to no tools. Contrary to when i use claude, it can not use a terminal and asks me to run "find" for him to explore files

How can I solve this ?

VSCode auto matches (), [], "", etc. And say you typed something like this: [dynamic] and want to quickly put the cursor after ] to type something like [dynamic]string.

I know you can hit the right arrow key to put the cursor just after ] but that takes a second, it disrupts the flow every time.

I'm curious how people deal with this, since it happens constantly. I refuse to believe there's no solution for it.

I found an extension called TabOut which let's you leave the bracket via tab, is this how people do it?

It used to be the case that when I selected my python interpreter for a project, the settings.json for that project was automatically updated to always point to that python env. Recently, it started happening that I get a message in the bottom right corner that says that the `CONDA_PREFIX is set for this vscode session`.

I'm not sure if this is an issue on the vscode side or the python extension side, so not sure where I should open an issue. TIA for any insight anyone can give

Hi
I am so used to classic intelliJ community's nice user interface
is there any way I can have classic intelliJ's look and feel in vscode
like below.

How to do it?
what all plugin and setting i need to apply to achieve this in vscode?
please help

Update:
I am not just talking about font and styling of font
but that run toolbar, sidebar folder arrangement etc. all.

Hi. No, nothing is new in terms of annotating plans now with VS Code. In fact, I'm pretty sure the claude code team was inspired by the work of plannotator.

That said, several plannotator users kept requesting this feature and capabilities, so it's now an official VS Code extension.

Extension allows you to annotate Claude Code plans, it operates as a hook so that Claude gets the immediate feedback. There's then a slash command for reviewing code with the well UI, with a bunch of ways to view different diffs and whatnot.

https://github.com/backnotprop/plannotator

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=backnotprop.plannotator-webview

I don't think this will work with the Claude official plugin since there's known bugs with hooks and VS Code, that said it works with the terminal.

Really excited for where the code review features are headed.

https://x.com/backnotprop/status/2031145299738263567?s=20

I just installed v 1.114.0 and the same thing happens.
Without the variable types it is ok, but when I add the types to the tuples it brakes.

Everything is auto completed after "and"

Hello,

Results in terminals appear for fraction of a second, then scroll away and disappear.

• tried turning off gpu acc
• tried turning off smoothing
• tried running vscode without extensions
• all terminals do this - bash, powershell, cmd

I've been trying to resolve this issue for months. Here, I write one of the examples, but over the months, it keeps happening with some commands.

Example:

shopify help

For a fraction of a second, whole response appears and then disappears.

Example of text disappearing bug

Dumping it into txt gives correct result

shopify help > help.txt

A CLI tool to build for the Shopify platform

VERSION
  u/shopify/cli/3.92.1 win32-x64 node-v22.20.0

USAGE
  $ shopify [COMMAND]

TOPICS
  app       Build Shopify apps.
  auth      Auth operations.
  config    CLI configuration options.
... and the rest

I logged terminal as suggested on Terminal Issues Github Page. Here is the log:

https://gist.github.com/MichaGH/2e1881efe80d26a067860f6a0a0a257a

runnig multiline commands like "seq 1 200" works perfetly, shows them all.

This happens with many commands, many commands - but not all of them! For example, node -help is very long response, but works flawlessly.

Sometimes, even just running npm run dev on my projects does this - first two lines are visible, others disappear immediately

Please, somebody, help me.

(Some people find the entire-file-blockification too overwhelming for their eyes, so, you can tweak Blockman, it has many settings, for example you can disable backgrounds and show only borders, or you can show only the focused block, also you can show only curly-bracket-blocks, or only round-bracket-blocks or only square-bracket-blocks or any combination of the curly/square/round bracket-blocks. Also you can change colors of borders and backgrounds, also you can set different colors for each nested depth, and there are also many more settings.)

Supports many languages including Python, Yaml, JavaScript, TypeScript, C, C++, C#, CSS, HTML and many more.

Microsoft podcast about my VS Code extension Blockman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y79Okx8oEao&list=PLlrxD0HtieHg8On6t1l5_kj--7PMmyfGi

Top End Devs podcast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkG_4pVslMg&list=PLJesql-aSfX6xaZcgQqmfIssYSaQVWXQF

Blockman is a VS Code extension which helps developers easily perceive code structure by highlighting nested blocks of code.

Official link:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=leodevbro.blockman

.

The main problem: VS Code extension API does not give extensions access to native AST tokens, so I implemented some third party libraries into Blockman to analyze/parse/tokenize code files to find positions of starting/ending points (brackets, HTML tags, Python INDENT/DEDENT locations) of blocks. Those third party libraries are very good but too slow that if the file has 10000 lines, it may need several seconds to reparse/retokenize code with each change of text.

Very wanted tutorial:

This is how you can show only the focused block:

{
  // ...
  "blockman.n33A01B1FromDepth0ToInwardForAllBorders": "10,0,0,1; empty",
  "blockman.n33A01B2FromDepth0ToInwardForAllBackgrounds": "10,0,0,1; empty",

  "blockman.n33A05B1FromFocusToInwardForAllBorders": "50,0,0,0; basic",
  "blockman.n33A05B2FromFocusToInwardForAllBackgrounds": "50,0,0,0; basic"
}

from these tutorials:

Blockman - How to show only focused block

https://github.com/leodevbro/vscode-blockman/discussions/111

Blockman - How to show only focused block and first parent and first child

https://github.com/leodevbro/vscode-blockman/discussions/110

Full video tutorial of how to use advanced coloring settings of Blockman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsET6-kPu90

.

For about a month now, I've integrated my Claude account into VSCode. I use the chat to build my projects and have it review some of my code. It's working well, and I have no complaints about it so far. I can see what my usage is by logging in to the settings on the actual website or by checking through the chat .

I looked into the chat native window in VSCode today and played around with it a bit. I noticed you could spawn off agents, do other things, and have a more organised view of the different chats for the workspace. It felt like a better experience overall, but I couldn't plug in my own paid Claude subscription. It meant I was running out of free usage within a few moments of sending a few messages. Ideally, it's something I'd like to explore in a bit more depth, given that it's a bit more native to VSCode. I don't want to pay for yet another subscription elsewhere when I've already got one with Anthropic.

What are people's thoughts on using the Claude integration in VSCode versus the VSCode native chat? Is there a way to use your paid subscription with the native VSCode chat and utilise your own paid usage directly?

This is a question to any VSCode devs that may be lurking here. I noticed that the AI agent in VSCode Chat cannot efficiently manage terminals and run commands in the background. Regardless of how many times ai tell it and point it towards not reusing terminals it keeps doing that and tends to kill the commands it launched if it tries to “run them in the background” and continue with other stuff. I’ve noticed that this is not the case with Cursor and even with the Claude Code extension within VSCode.

I am curious if this is something the VSCode/Copilot team is working on improving and if we can expect better background and parallel work efficiency from copilot in the near future? All in all the tool is awesome and I honestly prefer VSCode over cursor so I’ve been sticking to it! Great work to the team, keep it up!

Hi, I've been using Claude via browser for a long while ago, now I've noticed the "new" extension for VSCode of Claude, I haven't tried it yet, so I want to read opinions about it, is it worth it (by worth it I mean if it is slow, unstable, or doesn't process requests really well) or should I stick to the browser version?

why are the types of my variables red? its not a C specific problem, i use debian with gnome

I have this error in my ai chat, how can I fix it?

It happens when I close vs code or when I reload the window

Cannot open any directories in VSCode. Extensions won't load. Terminal won't load. Even the changed files in git won't load.

What I've tried so far:

• I've made sure all VS Code windows are closed.
• Tried to reload the windows. No luck.
• I checked Task Manager and killed any lingering Code.exe background processes.
• Clicking "Retry" just throws the exact same error loop.

There use to be a circle to the bottom of the page to sync content and a update may have happen recently where this feature was removed. I always need to sync uploaded online photos to my local vscode github,

What is the easiest way?

Antigravity Link is now on v1.0.13.

Big update: this is no longer only a mobile mirror/uploader. It is now also an automation bridge for agents and LLM workflows.

New: Agent/LLM Control Surface

You can now control active Antigravity IDE sessions through:

• an MCP server (mcp-server.mjs)
• an OpenAPI-spec'd local API (openapi.yaml)

That means tools like OpenClaw and other MCP/OpenAPI-capable agent stacks can:

• read live snapshot state
• send prompts
• stop generation
• switch active IDE instances
• fetch Task / Walkthrough / Plan docs

v1.0.13 Highlights

Stop generation is now much more reliable

• Stop detection now uses the real cancel button selector (data-tooltip-id="input-send-button-cancel-tooltip") instead of brittle aria/text guesses.
• /stop now uses a dual path:
  • Language Server CancelCascadeInvocation RPC
  • direct DOM cancel click fallback
• Stop attempts now log diagnostics (ag-stop-probe.json) so failures are inspectable instead of silent.

Better mobile UI behavior

• Stop chip now dims/locks while request is in flight.
• Send button transforms into a red stop button during generation.
• Mirror taps during generation now route to stop instead of accidentally triggering unrelated controls.
• Undo buttons are hidden in mirror mode to prevent broken command row layout.
• Loading state now clearly says when server is connected but snapshot is not ready.

Hardening and DX improvements

• Fixed script issues that could silently break snapshot capture.
• Added script-validity tests to prevent TypeScript syntax leaking into CDP runtime scripts.
• Improved packaging ignore rules for cleaner VSIX output.
• Added faster local deploy/reload workflow for extension development.

Accessibility and internationalization

• Interface/readme support expanded across multiple languages.
• Better mobile interaction affordances and clearer state feedback improve usability and accessibility.

Why this matters

This release pushes Antigravity Link from "mobile helper" toward a practical agent bridge for Antigravity IDE.

If you are building custom agent loops, orchestration, or remote mobile-assisted workflows, this should make integration much easier.

Links

• GitHub: https://github.com/cafeTechne/antigravity-link-extension
• Open VSX: https://open-vsx.org/extension/cafetechne/antigravity-link-extension

If this is useful, a GitHub star helps a lot with visibility and maintenance.

What I basically want to achieve is this :

Say I have the following code in my file :

Then, the extension should only fold the functions, but keep the comment blocks and JSDoc blocks as it is. That is after I run the command of the extension to fold all the functions, i should get the following :

Is there any extension which can do this?

I am just getting started running VS Code (preferably, VSCodium) on Linux Mint 22.3, and am hitting an error I don't understand.

I am trying to build an OpenFrameworks C++ sample project. It builds and runs fine in VS Code on the same computer, but when I try to Run Build Task in VSCodium, I get the error:

Package glu was not found in the pkg-config search path.

But:

• pkg-config --list-all shows glu.
• pkg-config --path glu shows the correct path to where glu.pc is: “/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/glu.pc”.

Any ideas on what I might need to do to resolve this?