Manage your dispatch orchestration platform directly from VS Code.
Features
- Activity Bar: Dispatch icon opens the Dispatch Features landing screen in the main editor with task, agent, skill, feature, automation, and approval views in the sidebar
- Features: Discover Dispatch capabilities, see live status, review API endpoints, and launch configuration/use actions
- Tasks: Real-time task list grouped by status, click for detail panel
- Agents: View loaded agent definitions with models
- Dispatch Chat: Chat with Dispatch and change the chat planner model directly from the chat panel or
Switch Model - Skills: Browse skills grouped by User-Installed vs System-Created, install from skills.sh or GitHub, and enable/disable from the context menu
- Automation: View cron jobs, webhooks, and event triggers
- Approvals: Pending approvals with Approve/Reject actions + native VS Code notifications
- Status Bar: Running/queued task count, always visible
- Commands:
Feature Catalog,Create Task,Show Stats,Recall Memory,Memory Explorer - Task Detail Panel: Webview with status, events timeline, actions (cancel/retry/enqueue)
- Real-time Updates: SSE connection to daemon for live task state changes
Setup
- Start the dispatch daemon:
dispatch --start - Install this extension in VS Code
- The Dispatch icon appears in the activity bar
Configuration
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
dispatch.apiUrl |
http://localhost:7878 |
Dispatch daemon API URL |
dispatch.autoRefreshInterval |
5000 |
Auto-refresh interval (ms), 0 to disable |
dispatch.autoStartDaemon |
true |
If the daemon isn't responding when the extension activates, run dispatch --start automatically (requires the dispatch CLI on your PATH). |