The duck never answers your bug. It only asks the questions that make you find it.
- Click the
🦆in the status bar (orCtrl+Alt+Q/Cmd+Alt+Q) to summon the duck. - Select code → right-click → Quack: Explain This to the Duck.
- The duck reads your selection, the active file's real errors, and the language — and asks sharper questions for it. Everything stays on your machine: no network, no telemetry.
Five personalities (quack.mode): socratic, senior, savage, zen, chaos.
Part of the quack monorepo — same engine and question dataset as the CLI: npx quack.