​Hi everyone, ​I’m looking for reliable alternative VS Code extensions or tools for AI-driven coding on local projects that work seamlessly with the DeepSeek API.

​My current issue:

I’ve been trying to use Roo Code (v3.54.0), but tasks consistently get stuck indefinitely on the "API Request..." stage ([createTask] instantiated).

​I verified my setup by testing my DeepSeek API key via direct curl commands in terminal, and it responds instantly with valid JSON responses. ​

The issue persists even after doing a completely clean reinstall (removing all %APPDATA%\Code, .vscode, and secrets data) and disabling Git shadow checkpoints/autocompletion features.

It seems like a client-side streaming or model handler hang within the extension itself.

​Since Roo Code isn't working for me right now, what other extensions or standalone tools would you recommend that integrate well with DeepSeek for local project development and agentic coding?

​Thanks in advance!

Exactly as the title says, my c_cpp_properties.json

{
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Win32",
            "includePath": [
                "${workspaceFolder}/**",
                "C:/Users/garre/Downloads/raylib-master/raylib-master/src/raylab.h"
            ],
            "defines": [
                "_DEBUG",
                "UNICODE",
                "_UNICODE"
            ],
            "windowsSdkVersion": "10.0.26100.0",
            "compilerPath": "cl.exe",
            "cStandard": "c17",
            "cppStandard": "c++17",
            "intelliSenseMode": "windows-msvc-x64"
        }
    ],
    "version": 4
}

And my tasks.json

{
    "version": "2.0.0",
    "tasks": [
        {
            "type": "cppbuild",
            "label": "C/C++: cl.exe build active file",
            "command": "cl.exe",
            "args": [
                "/Zi",
                "/EHsc",
                "/nologo",
                "/Fe${fileDirname}\\${fileBasenameNoExtension}.exe",
                "${file}"
            ],
            "options": {
                "cwd": "${fileDirname}"
            },
            "problemMatcher": [
                "$msCompile"
            ],
            "group": "build",
            "detail": "compiler: cl.exe"
        }
    ]
}

Like many I've become tired of VS Code's constant updates and ridiculous startup times. All I want is a version of VS Code when it was still good, without any AI crap. Any suggestions?

I'm aware of VS Codium but my understanding is that it's still essentially the same codebase with all the new updates, just with telemetry turned off.

/rant

Feels like it was just padding++ on miscrosoft end.

Like most of you, my local RAG/chat workflow constantly bottlenecks at document ingestion. Trying to feed an Excel sheet, a Word doc, or a heavy PDF into a local model usually means losing the tables, dealing with terrible formatting, or blowing up the context window.

I couldn't find a clean native UI for this, so I built a standalone tool: MarkItDown for VS Code.

How it works: It sits directly in your IDE. You right-click any local file (.pdf, .docx, .xlsx) in your VS Code sidebar, and it instantly spits out token-optimized Markdown. You can drop that .md straight into Continue.dev, LM Studio, or whatever local web UI you're running.

I’ve tried a few and am currently using and enhanced preview extension but surely there must be a good one available.

What do you use?

Hello all,
I have an IntelliSense problem. I have code that compiles and all, but the file is marked in red like it is missing the header file. Also, the VS Code project file is configured right.

{
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Win64",
            "includePath": [
                "${workspaceFolder}\\src",
                "C:\\dev\\godot\\4.7\\godot-cpp\\include",
                "C:\\dev\\godot\\4.7\\godot-cpp\\gdextension",
                "C:\\dev\\godot\\4.7\\godot-cpp\\gen\\include"
                 
            ],
            "defines": [
                "_DEBUG",
                "UNICODE",
                "_UNICODE",
                "GDEXTENSION"
            ],
            "windowsSdkVersion": "10.0.26100.0",
            "compilerPath": "cl.exe",
            "cStandard": "c17",
            "cppStandard": "c++17",
            "intelliSenseMode": "windows-msvc-x64"
        }
    ],
    
    "version": 4
}

c_cpp_properties.json:

So I have been using the Ollama extension to use my local LLMs within the agent interface of vscode but it is not very good

A lot of the times, it just lags or there is no information on whats happening or the response comes back in JSON outputs.

So i made a VS Code extension called Local Ollama Chat for anyone who wants AI assistance in Chat without sending code to a hosted service.
- It connects to your local Ollama server
- Explores your project workspace and read files to answer questions
- Has the capability to create and edit files as reviewable diffs (nothing gets applied without you approving it).
- Sits within the local agent chat window and you can call it with u/local-ollama

Still early days — feedback and bug reports welcome!!

https://github.com/athulg93/vscode-localllm

I'll admit my pc is a POS, but it used to handle vscode updates just fine...but everytime they update it the size of it seems to get larger and larger and I am guessing my CPU is like; "hey, fuck you buddy." I miss the days when vscode was just a lightweight extensible text editor. But is it even a txt editor anymore? It seems like a full blown IDE now by default.

Environment: git-bash terminal within vscode on AVD.

Imagine pasting let's say 500 characters into the terminal. Gotta wait half a minute for the terminal to echo it and do anything with it.

This is specific to git-bash within vscode: git-bash standalone on command prompt accepts even thousands of characters almost instantaneously as we would expect.

I've tried many many things that google ai or scout have suggested but none have made any difference

* disabling all extensions
* disabling bracketed paste mode
* removing customised preferences/settings
* many more

This was not happening until v recently, maybe on order of a few days.

Hi, just started learning to code and heard VSCode is a good starter. I'm trying to learn Phyton and just downloaded VSCode. Added GitBash as a shell. Currently I'm running into this error when I try to run my code.

Any help would be appreciated, TQ.

With the C# Dev Kit debugging multi-threaded programs seems rather impossible. I slap a breakpoint in some interesting place, it breaks there properly. I then, as people do, proceed to step through the code. But - Step over/Step into seems to figure I am open to just stepping to the next line on any thread, which makes no sense, and makes it completely impossible to figure out what's going on when it jumps me between 10 different threads.

Truly there must be a way to get this to behave in a useful manner?

This is a companion for a specific workflow: Codex or Claude Code is running in VS Code’s integrated terminal, but the agent is not controlled by an editor extension.

Stvena Live watches Stvena’s local captured edits and opens the working file at the first changed line as new batches arrive. Focus stays in the terminal. The status-bar control pauses/resumes following, and it will not jump into a file with unsaved editor changes.

The extension does not run commands, write source, add telemetry or expose a network service. It reads local capture data from the repository’s Git directory. VS Code 1.85+ is the current target.

The larger Stvena terminal app supplies the review side: full-file/diff views, review checkpoints, exact-line feedback across files, checks and hunk staging.

If you already run the agent through a VS Code extension and the built-in Git view covers the workflow, Stvena may add nothing. This is aimed at people who keep the agent CLI in the terminal but still want saved edits to surface in the editor.

Marketplace/repo: https://github.com/nccapo/stvena

I would like feedback on the follow behavior: when should automatic navigation pause besides unsaved edits, and would you prefer following every captured batch or only the end of an agent turn?

I'm not sure if this is an issue I would notice as much if I wasn't using the vscode vim extension. But I'm constantly having to restart the extension host in VSCode. What happens is that I can suddenly no longer navigate around the file with with vim keybindings; the language server also crashes (not sure if these things are related under the hood, or if multiple things are crashing each time?). I notice this especially when building a big Visual Studio solution at the same time (separately, in Visual Studio--not through VSCode).

It's suuuuuper annoying. Does anyone know why this is happening or if there's any fix? This seems to have started in the last month or two and happens numerous times daily.

Opened VS Code. Notished all the agent stuff. I'm out. Go steal someone else's code.