See your current branch's feature state — right inside VS Code — from H1VE, the governance & memory layer for teams building with AI.
As your team ships with AI (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot), context and decisions drift. H1VE keeps every feature aligned; this extension surfaces the branch's feature at a glance in the sidebar: stage, blockers, sign-offs, and the spec — no context switch to the dashboard.
Companion to the CLI h1ve and the
MCP server.
→ h1ve.org · app.h1ve.org
What you can do (v0.3 — the extension goes active)
Beyond seeing the branch feature, the extension now lets you act without leaving the editor:
- Command-center — click the status-bar item for a quick pick of the current stage's actions.
- Move stage / Start-or-resume a feature / Log a blocker / Open PR — from the palette or the board.
- Board view — every card grouped by stage, with badges ⚠ (blocker) · ⛓ (blocked by a dependency) · 📎 (attachment).
- Copy feature context for AI — one click puts the stage, SPEC, blockers, attachments and the relevant project memory on the clipboard, ready to paste into any AI chat.
- Recall project memory — pull only the relevant decisions/gotchas by term or selection.
- Notifications — a toast when your card advances, CI fails, a sign-off lands, or a blocker changes.
- Sign in — no terminal — "Sign in" runs the whole login inside the editor (loopback + browser + code exchange); the status bar shows connected as you.
- Connect the AI agent — a button registers the H1VE MCP so Claude Code / Cursor reads your board. A Getting Started walkthrough guides the first run.
- AI bridge (VS Code ≥ 1.95) — the Copilot agent reads your H1VE board on its own via Language Model Tools (
#h1veCurrentFeature·#h1veRecall·#h1veBoard), and@h1veanswers in the native chat (/status·/recall <term>·/board). Read-only — the AI reads; it never moves cards. - Publish SPEC/DONE to the card — a CodeLens at the top of
specs/SPEC-*.md/DONE-*.mdpublishes the file to the branch's card (kills the "wrote the file, forgot to publish" gap). - Check spec drift — surfaces anti-drift divergences (spec vs foundation) in the Problems panel, on demand.
Setup
Already using the CLI? If you've run h1ve login in a terminal, the extension uses that credential
automatically — zero paste, nothing to configure. Just open the H1VE panel (the hive icon in the
activity bar) on a feature branch.
Otherwise, the panel shows a "Connect to H1VE" welcome with a button. Or, manually:
- API key: run the command "H1VE: Set API Key" — stored in the VS Code SecretStorage, never in
settings. Use a PAT (
nf_pat_…fromapp.h1ve.org/api-tokens). h1ve.apiUrl(User/Machine settings — scopemachine, defaulthttps://app.h1ve.org): on purpose it is not overridable by a repo's.vscode/settings.json, so a repository can't redirect where your API key is sent (OP-12).
The "Branch feature" tree refreshes every h1ve.refreshIntervalSeconds (30s default), on config change,
and via "H1VE: Refresh".
Commands
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
H1VE: Set API Key |
Store / clear the API key in SecretStorage |
H1VE: Refresh |
Reload the branch's feature state |
H1VE: Open Spec |
Open the feature's spec in a markdown editor |
The extension resolves the feature from your current git branch (the branch_slug recorded by h1ve start).
It's read-only — to act on features (start, move, spec, done), use the CLI/MCP.
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