MentorVerse — Learning Mentors

MentorVerse is a VS Code extension that gives you a team of senior specialist AI mentors who teach you interactively — from basic → intermediate → advanced — across DSA, programming languages, DevOps/containers, cloud, and networking. It runs on your existing GitHub Copilot subscription via the VS Code Language Model API (no API keys, no extra cost).

Meet the mentors

Ask Ada anything; she pulls in the right specialist on demand.

Features (rolling out by phase)

• Multi-persona mentor chat with a coordinating lead mentor.
• Four learning tracks: DSA + Programming, DevOps (Docker/K8s), Cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP), Networking.
• Leveled curriculum (basic → advanced) with on-demand, cached lessons.
• Hands-on local code playground (Python / JavaScript / C#) with auto-graded challenges.
• Hands-on SQL playground (Node's built-in SQLite) with a free-play scratchpad and auto-graded query challenges that compare your result set to a reference.
• Hands-on stats/ML coding challenges (implement mean, variance, distance, cosine similarity, accuracy, gini, entropy… from scratch in Python; numpy/pandas allowed) and an interactive Prompt Lab to experiment with LLM techniques (zero/few-shot, system prompts, chain-of-thought, mini-RAG) using your Copilot model.
• Endless practice: Grace generates fresh challenges on demand, auto-verified by running her reference solution against the tests before they're shown; verified ones are saved.
• Online playground launchers for Docker/Kubernetes (Killercoda / Play-with-Docker).
• Gamification: XP, levels, streaks, badges, and a progress dashboard.
• Read-aloud (text-to-speech): listen to lessons and mentor replies via the built-in Web Speech API — with a voice/speed/pitch settings panel and an optional auto-read toggle (free, offline, no keys).
• "Explain simply / real-world analogy" mode and struggle detection.

Develop & run

npm install
npm run build          # one-shot build (host + webview)
npm run watch          # rebuild on change

Then press F5 in VS Code to launch the Extension Development Host, and run the command “MentorVerse: Open Mentor Hub” from the Command Palette (or click 🎓 MentorVerse in the status bar).

Install the packaged build

npm run package    # produces mentorverse.vsix
code --install-extension mentorverse.vsix --force

Reload VS Code, then open the hub from the Command Palette or status bar. The mentors use your GitHub Copilot subscription via the VS Code Language Model API — the first request will ask you to allow model access.

Configuration (Settings → "MentorVerse")

• mentorverse.preferredModelFamily — Copilot model family the mentors request (default gpt-4o).
• mentorverse.defaultLanguage — default code language for the playground (python / javascript / csharp).
• mentorverse.dailyGoalXp — daily XP goal for streaks (default 100).
• mentorverse.disabledMentors — list of mentor IDs to turn off (hidden from chat & routing). The lead mentor ada is always on. IDs: grace, archie, kai, nova, cody, flo, alan, lex. Example: "mentorverse.disabledMentors": ["cody", "nova"].
• mentorverse.hideDisabledMentorTracks — when true, a disabled mentor's learning track and challenges are also hidden (not just chat). Changes apply live (no reload needed).

Tech

• TypeScript + esbuild (extension host & webview bundles)
• React webview UI
• VS Code Language Model API (Copilot) for the mentors
• Local JSON persistence in the extension's global storage

Status: under active development. See plan.md (session) for the phased roadmap.

Created by Vishal Agarwal. Licensed under the MIT License (see the LICENSE file).