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New
- 🚨 Incident Studio foundation — shipped the core AI Incident Studio experience with lifecycle-aware payload contracts, graph-backed action handling, protocol fixtures, support panels for memory/resume/telemetry/prompt policy, and end-to-end regression coverage.
- 🧭 System graph + Architecture Lens baseline — added the workspace system graph indexer, deterministic blast-radius scoring, Incident Studio Architecture Lens, editor CodeLens surface, and inline architecture warnings for supported source files.
- 🔁 Release gate and rollback baseline — added wave-2 stop-gate automation, release gate manifest/KPI wiring, verify-first policy enforcement, hard-gate telemetry, and verify-fail auto-rollback evidence plumbing.
- 🧰 Setup and workspace operations upgrade — replaced the old setup panel with the new setup experience, added workspace share bundle import/export flows in the dashboard, restored module browser responsiveness, and expanded workspace/project command coverage.
- 🩺 Doctor and telemetry surfaces — added doctor telemetry refresh views and richer project context/log reporting for release gating and runtime observability.
- 🧪 Deep regression coverage — added contract, flow, graph, telemetry, release-gate, workspace-share, and A08-specific tests across the extension and webview layers.
Changed
- 🧠 AI context pipeline hardening — introduced a formal AI context contract and resolver, expanded project-context extraction, refreshed system prompt/prompt message shaping, and aligned AI/debug/chat flows on the same context-rich path.
- 🖥️ UI and webview modernization — refreshed large parts of the dashboard, Actions, setup, project creation, and incident surfaces to support the new Workspai workflows and responsive layouts.
- 🧩 Command/provider/schema alignment — updated command handlers, config-file completion/hover support, schemas, tree views, wizards, and extension activation wiring so the new surfaces work coherently in-editor and in-webview.
- 📦 Dependency security refresh — lockfile dependencies were refreshed through npm audit fix, clearing current production dependency findings for the release line.
Fix
- 🔒 Prompt and mutation safety — tightened prompt sanitization, adversarial-input guards, verify-readiness enforcement, and unknown-scope blocking so risky actions degrade safely.
- 🔄 Workspace flow stability — fixed workspace detection, project switching, sync cache invalidation, partial-failure normalization, webview readiness races, and module browser responsiveness.
- 🧩 Architecture evidence fragmentation — impact, predictive, and release-gate signals are now presented as one coherent architecture review surface instead of several loosely related cards.
- 🛡️ Production dependency audit findings — runtime npm audit findings are resolved for the current shipped dependency tree; only upstream dev-tooling issues without an available fix remain.
New
- ✦ AI action surface expansion — added AI flow commands to the extension command palette and menus: workspai.aiQuickActions, workspai.aiOrchestrate, workspai.aiFixPreviewLite, workspai.aiChangeImpactLite, workspai.aiTerminalBridge, workspai.aiWorkspaceMemoryWizard, and workspai.aiRecipePacks.
- 📊 Telemetry commands + onboarding experiment analytics — new commands workspai.showTelemetrySummary, workspai.resetTelemetry, workspai.showAIFeatureOnboarding, and workspai.showOnboardingExperimentStats with workspace-scoped summaries and experiment CTR analysis.
- 🧭 AI onboarding tour — in-product AI onboarding messages with follow-up toast variants and command telemetry events for onboarding flows.
Changed
- 🧱 Sidebar and webview quick-action alignment — WORKSPACES / PROJECTS inline action ordering now matches the expanded AI flow model; Actions webview now exposes AI Flows, telemetry, and onboarding shortcuts.
- 🧠 Telemetry instrumentation coverage — both @workspai chat participant and AI modal now emit structured success/error/cancel outcome telemetry with context-safe guards.
- 🎛️ Project context insights panel — new workspace telemetry and onboarding experiment summary views in projectContextAndLogs with copyable quick summaries.
Fix
- 🩺 Doctor network safety — version metadata fetch now enforces timeout, redirect bounds, and same-host redirect checks to reduce hangs and unsafe redirect behavior.
- 🚀 Dev server port probing resilience — project start flow now uses bounded port scan attempts with warning fallback instead of unbounded recursive probing.
- 📁 Workspace registry initialization race — config directory creation is now synchronous at startup to avoid first-run path timing issues.
New
- 🤖 @workspai Chat Participant — register @workspai in the VS Code Chat panel with two slash commands: /ask (full-context Q&A scoped to the active project) and /debug (structured debug flow: root cause + fix + prevention). Reuses the same prepareAIConversation → streamAIResponse pipeline as the Workspai modal for identical AI quality.
- ✦ AI Create presets — the AI Create modal now ships with categorised quick-fill prompt options (SaaS & commerce, core backend, microservices, data & ML, internal tools). Smart scoring surfaces the most relevant presets based on partial user input.
- 📊 "Which backend next?" poll — in-sidebar quick poll lets users vote for the next supported framework (Django / Express / Spring); result is acknowledged inline.
- 🔧 Workspace bootstrap, setup, init, policy, cache, mirror commands — new workspai.workspaceBootstrap, workspai.workspaceSetup, workspai.workspaceInit, workspai.workspacePolicyShow/Set, workspai.cacheStatus/Clear/Prune/Repair, workspai.mirrorStatus/Sync/Verify/Rotate, and workspai.checkForUpdates commands registered and palette-accessible.
- 🧪 WorkspaceMemoryService unit tests — new src/test/workspaceMemoryService.test.ts covering read/write, sanitisation, timestamp validation, and concurrent-access paths.
Changed
- 🧠 Workspace memory hardening — WorkspaceMemoryService now validates and sanitises all context, conventions, decisions, and lastUpdated fields on every read, auto-corrects corrupt entries, and writes back only the cleaned structure.
- ⚡ Live module list in AI context — aiService now fetches the available module catalogue directly from the CLI (rapidkit modules list --json-schema 1) with a 60-second in-process TTL cache, so AI responses reference the real current module set rather than a static snapshot.
- 🔁 Idempotent workspace creation — createWorkspace now detects partial directories (directory exists, no .rapidkit-workspace marker) and offers a "Replace (delete & recreate)" prompt; if the workspace marker already exists the CLI call is skipped entirely for a silent success.
- 🎨 Brand icons updated — workspai.png and workspai.svg updated to current Workspai identity; stale rapidkits.svg removed.
Fix
- 🛡️ AI module slug validation — module slugs returned by AI are validated against the live module list and the vendor/category/slug regex before being applied, preventing hallucinated module names from reaching the CLI.
- 📐 AI project context enrichment — context payload now includes python_version, rapidkit_cli_version, rapidkit_core_version, installed_modules, workspace_health, runtime, and engine fields so the model has complete environment awareness.
Changed
- 🧭 Workspai positioning sync across the extension README, Marketplace description, and webview header so public-facing messaging consistently uses the canonical product line: "The AI workspace for backend teams"
- 🐹 Go AI guidance in aiService now explains the current Go support boundary more clearly: supported kits are gofiber.standard and gogin.standard, and Go projects should be extended with native Go packages and internal adapters rather than RapidKit marketplace modules
- 🏷️ Go kit metadata cleanup — removed misleading modular tags from Go/Fiber and Go/Gin kit descriptors
Fix
- 🧠 Workspace memory action icon restored — rapidkit.editWorkspaceMemory now uses a valid codicon so the inline edit-memory action renders visibly in the WORKSPACES sidebar instead of leaving only an empty clickable area
- 🪟 Platform-safe npm wrapper execution — buildRapidkitCommand() now forces package resolution through npx --yes --package rapidkit rapidkit ..., preventing local launcher shadowing from the current working directory
- 🐹 Go framework detection — workspaceDetector now detects gofiber.standard and gogin.standard from real go.mod dependencies instead of RapidKit-specific package strings, with regression tests added for both frameworks
- 🩺 rapidkit-core verification reliability — setup panel checks now use pip show / pipx list based verification paths that are more stable across Windows and Linux environments
- 🎼 Poetry verification robustness — setup panel now probes real Poetry executable candidates only when they actually exist, reducing noisy or misleading verification failures
New
- 🤖 AI model selector in the AI modal header — users can choose any Copilot-registered language model (Claude, GPT, Gemini, etc.) from a compact inline dropdown before sending a query. Premium users see their full model list; free-tier users see what's available to them.
- 🧠 Thinking indicator while the AI context-scan phase runs — animated bouncing dots replace the blank waiting state so users have clear feedback before the first token arrives.
- 📝 MarkdownRenderer component (webview-ui/src/components/MarkdownRenderer.tsx) — lightweight zero-dependency markdown renderer for AI responses supporting headings, bold/italic, inline code, fenced code blocks, ordered/unordered lists, and HR rules.
Changed
- ⚡ Real-time AI streaming — fixed the "all at once" delivery problem. Extension host now flushes chunk batches every 50 ms via setInterval, breaking VS Code IPC batching that was holding tokens until stream completion.
- 🎨 Streaming render path — MarkdownRenderer no longer runs parseBlocks on every animation frame during streaming. Raw text is displayed instantly during the stream; a single parse pass runs after completion for formatted output.
- 🗂️ Quick-prompt chips hidden while streaming/thinking to reduce visual noise.
- 🔧 collapseAll tree view switched to native showCollapseAll: true on the rapidkitProjects view contribution — removes the invalid workbench.actions.treeView.rapidkitProjects.collapseAll menu entry warning.
Fix
- 🐛 Menu item warning — workbench.actions.treeView.rapidkitProjects.collapseAll was referenced in menus but not registered in commands; resolved by using VS Code's built-in showCollapseAll view property.
New
- 🧠 Deep AI project context in aiService for FastAPI/NestJS/Go workspaces with richer framework and file-signal extraction before generation and debugging.
- ✅ New AI regression coverage with dedicated tests for alias/model handling and AI debugger command flow.
Changed
- 🤖 Model selection hardening for GitHub Models/Copilot chat models, including robust alias resolution and safer fallback ordering.
- 🧵 Workspace memory I/O migrated to async flow to avoid blocking extension interactions.
- 🎛️ AI interaction consistency by routing legacy debug/brain entry points through the shared Workspai AI modal pipeline.
Fix
- 🛡️ Prompt budget safeguards to prevent oversized AI prompts and reduce timeout/failure risk on large repositories.
- 🧩 Module slug typo auto-correction with conservative matching to reduce failed module operations from minor naming mistakes.
- 🔁 Webview AI request lifecycle stability with stronger request correlation/cancel behavior across panel and modal flows.
Other
- WORKSPACES sidebar — two-phase rendering (workspaceExplorer) — getChildren() previously blocked on three per-workspace async ops: versionService.getVersionInfo() (subprocess + pip network call, 5 s timeout), getBootstrapProfile() (disk read), and _countInstalledModules() (recursive registry.json scan). Items now render instantly from cache; metadata (version badge, profile, module count) loads in background via _scheduleBackgroundMetadataLoad and fills in without user action.
- PROJECTS sidebar — two-phase rendering (projectExplorer) — getChildren() now returns items immediately from this.projects cache and schedules _scheduleProjectLoad() in background; loadProjects() uses Promise.all for parallel pathExists checks per project instead of a sequential if/else chain.
- AVAILABLE MODULES — two-phase rendering (moduleExplorer) — getChildren() immediately returns a loading~spin spinner item and fires _scheduleBackgroundCatalogLoad() instead of await-ing _ensureCatalogLoaded() (which ran a subprocess on cache miss). Catalog fills in when background load completes.
- Extension activation — workspaceDetector.detectRapidKitProjects() is no longer await-ed at activation; fires in background with .catch() — extension activates without blocking on workspace detection.
- coreVersionService TTL — version cache TTL extended from 5 min → 30 min. Python package version changes rarely; the subprocess version check runs far less often.
- examplesService timeout — axios request timeout reduced from 10 s → 5 s.
Fix
- AVAILABLE MODULES empty state — getChildren() now returns [] when no project is selected, allowing the VS Code viewsWelcome rich empty state to show (icon + heading + description + button) instead of a bare placeholder tree item.
- Removed fragile setTimeout for doctor refresh — two setTimeout(5000) / setTimeout(8000) calls after doctor re-run and autofix have been removed. The file watcher on doctor-last-run.json already handles refresh automatically.
- HeroAction.tsx badge alignment — $(sparkle) icon inside .hero-badge span now aligns inline with text (inline-flex items-center gap-1 / display: inline-flex).
- Dead code removed — _ensureCatalogLoaded() in moduleExplorer deleted; it was no longer called after two-phase refactor.
Changed
- package.json — viewsWelcome for rapidkitModules updated with icon $(package), heading, description, and an "Open Projects" link button (shown when !rapidkit:projectSelected).
- package.json — concurrently added to devDependencies (was used in dev script but missing from declared deps).
New
- ✦ AI Debug Actions (Code Actions) — ✦ Debug with Workspai AI and ✦ Explain error with AI quick-fix actions appear in the editor lightbulb for Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, and Go files that have diagnostics or a text selection; opens the AI modal with the error/selection pre-filled in Debug mode
- ✦ Doctor Fix with AI — each issue in the Workspace Health sidebar panel now has a ✨ inline button; clicking it opens the AI modal with the full issue context pre-filled, ready for analysis
- ✦ AI Module Suggestions — the Create Project modal now has a "Suggest modules with AI" button that recommends the top modules for your chosen framework and project description
- Minimizable AI Create modal — a − minimize button appears during thinking and creating steps; the modal collapses to a floating pill in the bottom-left corner so the dashboard stays usable; auto-restores when creation completes
Changed
- Quick Actions sidebar — consolidated to a single ✦ AI Assistant button ($(sparkle) icon) that opens the AI modal; redundant "Workspace Brain" button removed
- rapidkit.debugWithAI command — now opens the main Workspai panel AI modal instead of a separate HTML tab; context (editor selection or diagnostics) is passed as prefillQuestion
- rapidkit.workspaceBrain command — now focuses the main Workspai panel instead of opening a separate HTML tab
- Doctor Fix with AI — removed scratch-doc workaround; issue text is now passed directly as prefillQuestion to the AI modal
Fix
- AIModal.tsx — added context to useEffect dependency array so that prefillQuestion is correctly applied even when the modal is already mounted with a previous context
New
- ✦ AI actions on workspace cards — each workspace in the Recent Workspaces list now has a ✦ button (visible on hover) that opens the AI modal pre-loaded with that workspace's context
- ✦ AI actions on module cards — each module card in the Module Browser now has a ✦ button that opens the AI modal with the module's context (Module Advisor)
- aiForWorkspace / aiForModule webview messages handled in WelcomePanel — routes to showAIModal() with correct context type
Fix
- Critical: command 'rapidkit.workspaceSelected' already exists — removed duplicate registerCommand call from ProjectExplorer constructor; command is now registered only once in extension.ts
- projectExplorer.setWorkspace() is now correctly called when rapidkit.workspaceSelected fires (previously only doctorEvidenceExplorer.refresh() was called)
New
- 🩺 Doctor Evidence Viewer (DoctorEvidenceProvider tree view)
- 📦 Module install modal from Available Modules sidebar
Changed
- 🧩 WelcomePanel gains setExtensionContext() static method so sidebar components can open the panel without passing context
- 🔄 Initial workspace path sync: after workspaceExplorer.refresh() on activation, health panel is immediately seeded with the auto-selected workspace
New
- 🧩 Modular command registration architecture
- 🧪 Cross-platform command contract coverage
Changed
- 🪟 Create Workspace modal UX (tool-aware flow)
- ⚡ Workspace sidebar loading performance
- 🖥️ Terminal execution + platform abstraction
Fix
- 🩺 Doctor workspace path output clarity
- 🧭 Setup and requirement checks consistency
New
- 🧭 Workspace-profile aware command reference in Welcome page
- 👁️ Persistent Setup Status visibility control
- 🏷️ Workspace profile tags across UI surfaces
Changed
- 🎨 Quick Actions theme adaptation
- 🌐 Example workspaces behavior
- 🧠 Workspace vs project state handling in modules UI
Fix
- 🐛 Example cards link/clone regressions
- 🐛 Incorrect state source for profile-based UX
- 🧪 Drift protection enhancements
New
- 🐹 Go Framework Support in Sidebar Quick Actions
- 🪟 Workspace Button Opens Welcome Modal
- 🚫 Modules Disabled for Go Projects
Fix
- 🔧 Removed @latest from All npx Calls
- 🔧 Go Project Init Detection
- 🔧 openWorkspaceModal Wrong State
Changed
- 🎨 Framework Button Sizing — Icons reduced to 16px, min-height 44px, padding 5px 2px, label font 9.5px
- 🧭 WorkspaceStatus Type — Added projectType?: 'fastapi' | 'nestjs' | 'go'
- 🧭 Project Type Propagation — updateWithProject sends projectType; _detectProjectTypeStatic shared static helper
New
- 🪟 In-App Module Details Modal
- 🔄 Post-Install Workspace Status Refresh
Changed
- 🧭 CLI Binary Resolution Reliability
- 📡 Module Details Data Source
- 🎨 Webview UI Polish
New
- 🌐 Dynamic Example Workspaces - Load example workspaces from GitHub repository
- 🎨 Dynamic Kit Selection - Enhanced project creation with kit dropdown
- 📦 Full Workspace Export/Import - Complete backup and restore functionality
- 🆕 New Services - Core infrastructure services added
Changed
- ✨ UX Improvements - Better visual hierarchy and usability
- 🎯 Project Creation Flow - Streamlined workflow
- 📋 Workspace Context - Fixed workspace selection bug
Internal
- New Dependencies:
- Package Updates:
- Code Changes:
Removed
- ❌ Config-Only Export/Import - Simplified to Full Archive only
New
- 🚀 Project Actions Panel - Unified action panel in Welcome Page with 6 lifecycle buttons
- ⬆️ Workspace Upgrade Button - Smart upgrade detection for rapidkit-core
- 🎯 Smart Browser Button - Context-aware browser opening
- 📡 Running Port Detection - Intelligent port tracking
Improved
- 🎨 Enhanced Sidebar Icons - Better visual feedback for running projects
- 🔄 State Synchronization - Real-time UI updates
- 💅 Disabled Button Styling - Professional disabled state
Internal
- New Component: ProjectActions.tsx - Unified action panel with conditional rendering
- Type Updates: Added runningPort?: number to WorkspaceStatus interface
- Extension Integration: Import runningServers Map in welcomePanel.ts
- Port Extraction: Regex-based port detection from terminal names
- CSS Enhancements: Disabled button states and hover effect improvements
New
- 🎭 Modal System - Comprehensive modal-based workflows for core actions
- ⚡ Requirement Cache - Smart caching system for installation prerequisites
- 📱 Responsive Design - Mobile-friendly and adaptive layouts
Improved
- 🎨 Updated Screenshots - All extension gallery images refreshed
- 🔧 Enhanced Commands - Better user experience for core operations
- 🎯 UI/UX Polish - Refined user interface components
- 🐍 Python/Poetry Integration - More robust environment detection
Changed
- 🏗️ Architecture - Modernized component structure
Internal
- 📦 New Files
- 🔄 Modified Files
Other
- ⚡ Faster Workspace Creation - 30-50% speed improvement
New
- 🔄 Dynamic Version Display - Welcome page now shows extension version dynamically
- 📊 Project Statistics - Enhanced workspace tracking with detailed project counts
Improved
- 🎨 Redesigned Workspace Cards - Completely revamped workspace list UI
- 🔍 Enhanced Project Detection - More accurate workspace scanning
Changed
- 📐 Workspace Data Structure - Updated type definitions
Internal
- Refactored workspace card components with new class naming (ws-* prefix)
- Added VS Code theme-aware color utility classes
- Improved TypeScript type safety for workspace data
- Code formatting improvements (consistent indentation)
New
- 🏥 Workspace Health Check - Quick diagnostics for workspaces
- 🎯 Standalone Setup Status Panel - Dedicated setup verification
Improved
- 🎨 Setup UI/UX - Enhanced visual design
- 🔧 Welcome Panel - Streamlined quick actions
Changed
- 📋 Setup Status Architecture - Separated from Welcome panel
Internal
- Created new SetupPanel class for standalone setup management
- Added rapidkit.openSetup command
- Added rapidkit.checkWorkspaceHealth command
- Enhanced workspace context menu with health check option
- Improved terminal integration for diagnostic commands
New
- 📋 Copy install commands on Setup Wizard and Module cards (single-click copy of rapidkit add module <slug> and relevant install commands)
- 🖥️ Manual install button with terminal-style icon for module cards
Fix
- 🛠️ Setup Status stuck on "Checking..." — removed interval-based polling and added debounced updates to avoid continuous rechecks and UI flicker
- 🔍 npm vs pipx detection — improved detection logic to distinguish npm CLI from pipx-installed RapidKit to prevent false positives
- 📋 Copy-to-clipboard UX — unified copy button behavior and added visual feedback for modules and install actions
Changed
- 🧩 Module Browser: added copy-to-clipboard for module install commands; improved actions layout and consistent button styling
- 🏷️ Header shows current extension version alongside update status (e.g., v0.6.1 — Up to date)
New
- 🎯 Interactive Module Browser - Complete module management system
- 🔧 Intelligent Setup Wizard - Pre-flight validation system
- 📦 Package Manager Selection - Multi-method installation
- 📚 Enhanced Documentation
Improved
- Python environment detection now uses 8 different methods
- Auto-closing progress notifications (800ms)
- Module state synchronization across all UI components
- Better error messages with actionable guidance
- Workspace creation properly blocks on missing prerequisites
- Installation method cards with visual feedback
Fix
- 🔧 NPM Package Caching Issue - Always use latest rapidkit npm package
- 🩺 Doctor Command Accuracy - Fixed false positive "All checks passed"
- 💬 Notification Polish - All notifications now have "OK" button
New
- 📦 Standalone Project Mode - Create projects without workspace
- 📋 Command Reference - Added to Welcome Page
- 📂 Recent Workspaces - Dynamic list in Welcome Page
- ⚡ Workspace Explorer Enhancements
Changed
- Updated all CLI invocations to use npx --yes rapidkit@latest instead of npx rapidkit
- Improved reliability of workspace and project creation commands
- Welcome Page icons updated for professionalism:
- Refresh icons changed from 🔄 to ↻ (minimal and clear)
- Welcome Panel now auto-refreshes after workspace/project creation
- Stored extension context globally for cross-file access
- Enhanced tooltips in workspace explorer with more details
New
- 🔍 Comprehensive Python Detection - 8-method detection for rapidkit-core package
- 🧙 Interactive Setup Wizard - Integrated into Welcome page
- 📋 Comprehensive Doctor Command - Enhanced system diagnostics
- 🎯 New checkSystem Command - Quick system status check
- 📚 Extensive Documentation - 5 new comprehensive guides
Changed
- 🧹 Removed auto-create default workspace - User must manually create workspace now
- 🎨 Redesigned Actions Panel - More compact button layout
- 📖 Welcome Page Styling - Responsive and compact design
Fix
- 🐛 pyenv Python detection - Now properly detects rapidkit-core in pyenv versions
- 🐛 Workspace already exists handling - Returns existing workspace instead of error
- 🐛 Extension activation flow - Removed async initialization race conditions
Other
- src/commands/checkSystem.ts — Quick system status check
- src/utils/errorParser.ts — Error parsing and suggestions
- docs/PYTHON_DETECTION_METHODS.md — Detection methods documentation
- docs/SETUP_WIZARD_UPDATE.md — Setup wizard implementation guide
- docs/WIZARD_TESTING.md — Comprehensive test cases
- docs/WIZARD_VISUAL_GUIDE.md — UI/UX documentation
- docs/WORKSPACE_COMPARISON.md — Workspace structure reference
- releases/RELEASE_NOTES_v0.5.1.md — Release notes
- src/commands/doctor.ts — Added version checking and npm detection
- src/utils/pythonChecker.ts — Added 8-method detection (4 more methods)
- src/ui/panels/welcomePanel.ts — Complete wizard integration
- src/ui/webviews/actionsWebviewProvider.ts — 3-column layout
- src/extension.ts — Removed auto-workspace, added checkSystem command
- src/core/workspaceManager.ts — Better duplicate handling
- package.json — Updated to v0.5.1
- README.md — Updated for new features
- CHANGELOG.md — This entry
- RELEASE_NOTES.md — Updated latest release
New
- 📋 Shared Workspace Registry - Cross-tool workspace discovery with npm package
Changed
- 🏷️ Unified Workspace Signature - Changed from RAPIDKIT_VSCODE_WORKSPACE to RAPIDKIT_WORKSPACE
- 🔍 Enhanced Workspace Detection - Multi-layer workspace discovery
- 🎯 Project Selection UX - Visual indicators for selected project
Fix
- ✅ Workspace Creation - Removed unnecessary Python validation
- ✅ Module Addition - Robust workspace detection
- ✅ Attribution Consistency - All workspace markers use correct constants
Other
- 📝 Added workspace registry documentation to README
- 📝 Documented cross-tool compatibility workflow
- 📝 Added examples for npm/Extension interoperability
- 🐍 Python Core Bridge - Direct integration with rapidkit-core Python engine
- 🔗 Cross-platform Exec Utilities - Stable command execution
- 🎯 Project Context Tracking - Enhanced project/workspace awareness
- 📦 Bridge-Aware Doctor Command - System diagnostics include Python engine
Changed
- 🔄 All commands delegate to Python Core - Extension is now a smart UX bridge
- 🔄 Workspace Detection Enhanced
- 🔄 Module Explorer Refactored - Using Python bridge
- 🔄 Aligned with rapidkit-npm v0.15.1
Fix
- 🐛 Workspace context lost when quick-switching between projects
- 🐛 Module commands failing due to missing project context
- 🐛 Cross-platform Python inconsistencies (hardcoded python3 paths)
- 🐛 Process cleanup on command timeout
Other
- src/core/bridge/pythonRapidkit.ts — Python bridge with Scenario A/B/C resolution
- src/utils/exec.ts — Cross-platform command execution wrapper
- src/core/selectedProject.ts — Project context management
- src/core/rapidkitCLI.ts — Bridge integration
- src/commands/{addModule,createProject,createWorkspace,doctor}.ts — Bridge delegation
- src/core/{workspaceDetector,workspaceManager}.ts — Enhanced detection
- src/ui/treeviews/moduleExplorer.ts — Python bridge backend
- src/utils/constants.ts — Marker alignment
Fix
- 🐛 Missing workspace directory handling - Fixed crash when selected workspace no longer exists
Changed
- 📦 Updated dependencies - Updated 11 packages to latest stable versions
- 🔄 Compatibility - Synced with rapidkit-npm v0.14.2
New
- 🐍 Smart Poetry virtualenv detection - Extension now detects Poetry virtualenvs in cache
- 🔔 Update notification system - Automatic checks for rapidkit npm package updates
- 📦 Enhanced Doctor command - Better Poetry detection in system check
Changed
- 🧹 Removed redundant activationEvents - Cleaned up package.json
Fix
- 🐛 Poetry cache virtualenv support - FastAPI projects no longer show false initialization warnings
New
- 🖼️ rapidkit.svg - Official RapidKit brand icon in SVG format
- 🎨 ACTIONS WebviewView - Completely redesigned sidebar with professional buttons
- ⚡ Project Quick Actions - 5 inline action buttons on each project in PROJECTS panel
- 📂 Project File Tree - Expand project to see key files
Changed
- 🎨 Welcome Panel SVG Logo - Upgraded from PNG to SVG for better quality
- 📝 Better Description - Updated marketplace description to match website
- 🎨 Improved Project Icons - Framework-specific icons and colors
- 📖 README Sync - Aligned with npm package documentation
Fix
- 🐛 Remove annoying workspace switch - Clicking project no longer switches VS Code workspace
- 🐛 rapidkitTemplates error - Removed orphan TreeView registration
Other
- VS Code 1.100+ (updated from 1.85)
New
- 🩺 RapidKit npm check in Doctor - System check now verifies npx rapidkit --version
Changed
- 🔄 Dynamic version markers - Marker files now use extension version from package.json
Fix
- 🐛 TypeScript error - Added 'preview' to RapidKitModule.status type
- 📝 CHANGELOG links - Updated version links to include all releases (0.4.0-0.4.3)
New
- 🧩 Enhanced Module Explorer - Complete module catalog with 27 modules across 12 categories
Changed
- 🎨 UI/UX Improvements
- 📢 Enhanced Notifications - Added action buttons for better workflow
- 📝 Welcome Page - Updated version reference to v0.4.x for consistency
Fix
- Doctor command async/await handling for notification action buttons
- Terminal integration for post-creation workflows
New
- 🪵 Logging Commands - New command palette options for log management
- Logger Enhancements
Changed
- 📺 Marketplace Presentation
Changed
- 📝 Updated notification messages for rapidkit npm v0.12.3 smart CLI delegation
- 📚 New README - Completely rewritten for clarity and quick reference
Other
- 📁 Moved all release notes to releases/ folder for cleaner root
- Created main RELEASE_NOTES.md with links to history
- Removed .vsix files from git tracking
- Added preview and qna fields to package.json for marketplace
Changed
- 🔄 Complete architecture overhaul - Migrated from Python-based CLI to npm package
- 📦 Smart Location Detection - Intelligent workspace and project location management
- 🎯 Simplified wizards
- ⚡ Updated commands
- 🎨 Button-Style Actions UI - Professional action buttons in sidebar
- 🔧 Type system updates
- ✅ Enhanced Workspace Validation - No more annoying confirmation dialogs
Removed
- ❌ Python CLI dependencies: No longer depends on Python RapidKit CLI
- ❌ Generate Demo feature: Removed (unnecessary with only 2 templates)
- ❌ Demo workspace mode: Workspaces are now standard npm package workspaces
- ❌ Kit selection: Templates are managed by npm package
- ❌ Module wizard step: Module installation moved to post-creation workflow
- ❌ Poetry integration: Not needed anymore
- ❌ Annoying confirmation dialogs: "Add it anyway?" removed
New
- ✨ npm package integration: Full integration with rapidkit npm package (v0.12.1+)
- ✨ Smart location choice: Default workspace vs Custom location with intelligent detection
- ✨ Marker file system: .rapidkit-workspace files for custom location recognition
- ✨ Auto-registration: Workspaces automatically appear in list after creation
- ✨ Direct framework commands: Separate commands for FastAPI and NestJS
- ✨ Better error handling: Contextual help links to documentation
- ✨ Improved progress reporting: More accurate progress indicators
- ✨ Verification steps: Automatic project/workspace verification after creation
- ✨ Parent directory creation: fs.ensureDir() before all CLI calls to prevent ENOENT errors
Fix
- 🐛 Fixed interactive prompts blocking: Added --yes flag to all CLI commands
- 🐛 Fixed custom location not showing in list: Auto-registration after project creation
- 🐛 Fixed workspace validation: Enhanced to accept npm CLI created workspaces
- 🐛 Fixed directory creation errors: Parent directories created before CLI execution
- 🐛 Fixed import order conflict: Moved path import inside function to avoid variable shadowing
Other
- 🎯 Simpler: No Python/Poetry installation required
- ⚡ 5-6x Faster: Direct npm execution vs Python environment setup
- 🔄 Consistent: Single source of truth (npm package) for templates
- 🐛 Fewer bugs: Less complexity = fewer edge cases
- 📦 Smaller: Removed bundled templates (managed by npm package)
- 🎨 Better UX: Smart defaults, no annoying dialogs, professional UI
Other
- For Users: Extension now requires Node.js/npm (already available in VS Code)
- For Developers: Python RapidKit CLI no longer needed for development
- Workspaces: Existing workspaces continue to work, new API for creation
- Templates: Managed by npm package, always up-to-date
- Custom Locations: Now fully supported with marker files
Other
- Updated RapidKitCLI class with new methods:
- Enhanced WorkspaceManager.isRapidKitWorkspace() to check both .rapidkit/ and marker files
- Refactored all command handlers to use new CLI API
- Updated TypeScript types to match new simplified workflow
- Removed legacy Python CLI integration code
- Added marker file creation for custom locations
Changed
- 🌐 Updated domain references - Migrated all URLs from rapidkit.top to getrapidkit.com
- ⚡ Enhanced development workflow - Added comprehensive developer tools
- 📦 Updated dependencies - Upgraded to latest stable versions
Fix
- 🔒 Security improvements - Fixed npm audit vulnerabilities
- 🐛 Code quality fixes - Cleaned up ESLint warnings
Other
- 📚 Updated all documentation links to point to getrapidkit.com
- 📧 Updated support email to support@getrapidkit.com
- 🔗 Updated schema references to use new domain
Fix
- 🐛 Fixed code quality warnings - Addressed 9 ESLint warnings related to unused error variables
Changed
- Modified test infrastructure to disable Vitest tests until VS Code mocking is properly configured
- Updated npm test script to focus on compilation and linting verification
- Updated vitest.config.ts to exclude test files requiring VS Code API
Fix
- 🐛 CRITICAL FIX: Fixed Generate Demo Project hanging issue - The command was using stdio: 'pipe' which prevented output from being shown to users, making it appear frozen
- Fixed Generate Demo Project button to work correctly with demo workspaces
- Fixed command to automatically detect and use generate-demo.js script in demo workspaces
- Added automatic workspace context retrieval when Generate Demo button is clicked
- Demo workspaces now properly generate projects without requiring folder selection
Changed
- Improved generateDemoCommand to accept workspace parameter and retrieve selected workspace from context
- Added progress interval tracking during demo project generation
- Added rapidkit.getSelectedWorkspace command to ProjectExplorer for getting current workspace
- Enhanced demo workspace detection logic to check for generate-demo.js file
Changed
- ⚡ Bundle Optimization: Reduced extension bundle size by 55% (464KB → 209KB)
- Enabled aggressive tree-shaking to remove unused code
- Removed console.log statements and debugger calls in production builds
- Removed legal comments from bundled output
- Improved extension load time and performance
Fix
- Fixed production mode detection in esbuild configuration (now supports both --production flag and NODE_ENV=production)
Fix
- Fixed NestJS projects not appearing in Projects view
- Project explorer now correctly detects both FastAPI (pyproject.toml) and NestJS (package.json) projects
Changed
- Simplified kit selection to show only standard kit for both frameworks
- Removed incomplete kits (advanced, ddd) from project creation wizard until they are fully ready
Fix
- 🔥 CRITICAL FIX: Fixed commands not being registered when installed from VSIX package
- Fixed missing runtime dependencies in packaged extension causing activation failures
- Fixed "command 'rapidkit.createWorkspace' not found" errors
- Fixed "command 'rapidkit.addWorkspace' not found" errors
- Fixed "command 'rapidkit.refreshWorkspaces' not found" errors
- Updated .vscodeignore to include all necessary node_modules dependencies
- All buttons and commands now work correctly in installed VSIX
Changed
- Improved dependency packaging to ensure runtime libraries are available
- Updated build configuration to prevent pruning of required dependencies
- Updated Vitest to v4.0.7 to align with @vitest/coverage-v8 peer requirements
Fix
- 🔧 Fixed workspace and project selection context keys not being set properly
- Fixed buttons in workspace explorer not becoming enabled after selecting workspace
- Fixed project creation button not working in Projects view
- Fixed context menu items not appearing due to context key timing issues
- Improved async handling of context key updates to ensure proper UI state
New
- 🎉 Initial pre-release version
- Workspace creation wizard with interactive prompts
- Project generation for FastAPI and NestJS frameworks
- Module browser with 100+ modules organized by category
- Template preview with syntax highlighting
- Project explorer tree view
- Module explorer tree view
- Template explorer tree view
- Workspace explorer tree view
- Status bar integration with real-time updates
- System doctor for checking requirements (Python, Node.js, Poetry, Git)
- IntelliSense providers:
- Code snippets:
- JSON schema validation:
- Commands:
- Keyboard shortcuts:
- Welcome webview panel with quick actions
- Template preview webview panel
- File watchers for auto-refresh on changes
- Configuration options:
- Context menu integration
- Activity bar integration with RapidKit icon
- Output channel for detailed logging
- Demo mode for quick workspace creation
- Package manager selection for NestJS projects (npm, yarn, pnpm)
Fix
- NestJS project creation package manager parameter handling
- Extension activation on startup
- Command registration order for reliable button functionality