🧠 Smarter Context Integration for Extensions

[AronSoto]

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🚀 What if we could make editor integrations smarter and more intuitive?

Currently, fetching file or terminal context often requires manual input (like #file) or custom implementations. Imagine an API feature or framework that automatically provides seamless access to editor context with minimal configuration.

• How could we design a developer-friendly solution for this?
• What challenges do you foresee in implementing this across various IDEs?
• Let’s brainstorm ways to make context handling in extensions smarter and more efficient!

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[Jailym]

A developer-friendly solution could be a standardized API that IDEs can implement, offering consistent access to file and terminal context without manual input. It should include features like auto-detection of active files, terminal sessions, and user-defined configurations. Challenges include ensuring compatibility across different IDEs, dealing with varying levels of extensibility, and managing performance overhead. Security concerns, like limiting unauthorized access to context data, would also need to be addressed.

Using an open-source approach for API development could encourage collaboration between IDE creators and the community, making the integration process smoother.