ECA (Editor Code Assistant) Vscode is an AI-powered pair-programming client for VsCode. It connects to an external eca server process to provide interactive chat, code suggestions, context management and more.

For more details about ECA, features and configuration, check ECA server.

This extension will auto download eca and manage the process.

• eca.chat.addContextToSystemPrompt: Add context to system prompt in chat in a DWIM (do what I mean) manner.
• eca.chat.rewrite: Rewrite a piece of code given a prompt.

• eca.serverPath: Custom server path, if not set it will download latest server from https://github.com/editor-code-assistant/eca
• eca.serverArgs: Extra server args used when starting eca server.

Check troubleshooting docs section.

Make sure that you have the eca-webview submodule cloned. To download it, you can run:

git submodule update --init --recursive

npm run dev:gui

This will start Vite dev server on https://localhost:5173, so any changes will be updated on the vscode live.

then start vscode on debug mode, open this project in vscode and hit F5 (Debug), this should open a new vscode extension with this plugin running.

WARN: To run the task from VsCode, need to install the esbuild Problem Matchers extension.