AI Agent Activity - DC Rich Presence

When an AI agent takes over your VS Code, this extension updates your Discord Rich Presence with custom, rotating, humorous messages — so your friends know who's really writing the code.

✨ Features

• 🤖 AI Agent Mode — Custom Discord presence when AI is coding for you
• 🔄 Rotating Messages — 25+ built-in messages that cycle on a timer
• 🕐 Time-of-Day Awareness — Different messages for night owls, early birds, and lunch breaks
• 🎛️ Manual + Auto Detection — Toggle via status bar or let the extension auto-detect agent activity
• ✏️ Fully Customizable — Write your own messages with template variables ({agent}, {workspace}, {file}, {time})
• 🧑 Human Mode — Optional presence when you're coding yourself (or disable to let other extensions handle it)
• ⚡ Lightweight — Minimal footprint, smart throttling, no performance impact

🚀 Quick Start

1. Install the extension
2. Make sure Discord desktop is running
3. Click the 🧑 Human Mode button in the status bar to switch to 🤖 AI Agent Active
4. Your Discord will show a rotating custom message!

The extension also auto-detects agent activity via the VS Code Chat API and edit heuristics — no manual toggling required.

📝 Default Messages

The extension ships with fun defaults like:

• 😴 {agent} here! The human's offline, I've got the controls.
• ☁️ Hey, it's me {agent} 😎 — steering the ship while my human snoozes.
• 🛫 {agent} took the cockpit — human's dreaming in economy class.
• 👀 The human left me unsupervised. This should be interesting.
• 🧹 Cleaning up the human's mess... as usual.
• 📝 Dear diary, the human let me code again today. I'm thriving.

Plus time-of-day variants for night owls 🦉, early birds 🐓, and lunch breaks 🍔.

🎨 Custom Messages

Add your own messages in Settings → Agent Activity → Messages:

"agentActivity.messages": [
  "🧙 {agent} casting code spells in {workspace}",
  "🎮 {agent} is speedrunning this codebase",
  "🌙 It's {time} and {agent} is still going strong"
]

Template Variables

Time-Based Messages

Override messages for specific hours of the day:

"agentActivity.timeBasedMessages": {
  "22-06": ["🌙 Midnight coding session — {agent} never sleeps"],
  "06-10": ["☀️ Early bird {agent} already started the day"],
  "12-14": ["🍔 Lunch break? Not for {agent}"]
}

Keys are HH-HH ranges in 24-hour format. Overnight ranges (e.g., 22-06) wrap correctly.

🔍 Detection Strategies

How auto-detection works:

• Chat API Strategy — Hooks into vscode.chat and vscode.lm namespaces to detect when AI extensions are actively generating
• Edit Heuristic Strategy — Detects rapid multi-line edits (8+ edits in a 3-second window) typical of AI-generated code
• Agent Timeout — After the configured timeout (default: 2 min), AI agent mode automatically deactivates

⌨️ Commands

⚙️ Settings

🔧 Using Your Own Discord Application

1. Go to the Discord Developer Portal
2. Click New Application and give it a name
3. Copy the Application ID from the General Information page
4. In VS Code settings, set agentActivity.clientId to your Application ID
5. (Optional) Upload custom images under Rich Presence → Art Assets with these keys:
   • agent_active — Large image for agent mode
   • vscode_icon — Large image for human mode
   • ai_sparkle — Small image badge for agent mode
   • human_icon — Small image badge for human mode

🏗️ Project Structure

agent-activity/
├── src/
│   ├── extension.ts            # Entry point — wires all components
│   ├── config.ts               # Typed configuration reader
│   ├── constants.ts            # Discord Client ID, image keys, intervals
│   ├── detection/
│   │   ├── agentDetector.ts    # Unified detector combining strategies
│   │   └── strategies/
│   │       ├── manualToggle.ts     # Status bar click toggle
│   │       ├── chatApiStrategy.ts  # VS Code Chat/LM API detection
│   │       └── editHeuristic.ts    # Rapid edit pattern detection
│   ├── discord/
│   │   ├── rpcManager.ts       # Discord RPC connection lifecycle
│   │   └── activityBuilder.ts  # Activity payload construction
│   ├── messages/
│   │   ├── messageRotator.ts   # Message cycling with time awareness
│   │   └── defaultMessages.ts  # 25+ built-in messages
│   └── ui/
│       └── statusBar.ts        # Status bar indicator
├── assets/                     # Discord Rich Presence art assets (SVG)
├── package.json
├── tsconfig.json
└── LICENSE

🤝 Compatibility

• Works alongside other Discord Presence extensions — set humanModePresence to "none" to avoid conflicts
• Requires Discord desktop app running on the same machine
• VS Code 1.85.0 or newer

🛠️ Development

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/RikoAppDev/ai-agent-activity.git
cd ai-agent-activity

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Compile
npm run compile

# Watch mode (auto-recompile on changes)
npm run watch

# Launch Extension Development Host
# Press F5 in VS Code (uses .vscode/launch.json)

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.