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Configure VS Code AI extensions

Most supported VS Code AI extensions do not need client-side configuration. Install the host collector and enable local transcript and IDE-state capture.

Supported extensions

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GitHub Copilot for VS Code Copilot Chat workspace transcripts, extension state, helper process activity
Codex for VS Code Extension state and bundled Codex helper process activity
Claude Code for VS Code Extension state and bundled Claude helper process activity
Gemini Code Assist / Gemini CLI Companion Extension state
Kimi Code for VS Code Extension state and bundled Kimi helper process activity

Collector settings

Add these sources to collector.yaml and restart the collector:

sources:
  process:
    enabled: true
  transcript:
    enabled: true
  vscdb:
    enabled: true

process.enabled captures supported extension helper processes. transcript.enabled captures JSONL transcript feeds such as GitHub Copilot Chat. vscdb.enabled captures supported VS Code extension state from local SQLite stores.

No VS Code settings change is required. The collector auto-discovers the standard VS Code user-data paths for the user running the collector.

Per-user collectors

For workstation deployments, run the collector as the same OS user who runs VS Code. A service running as a different user will not see that user's VS Code data directory.

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