Kraft for VS Code

The Kraft extension shows the board in the sidebar and lets you clear what Kraft is waiting on you for from the editor: approve or reject a gate, review a work item's branch, and edit Kraft's YAML config files with errors flagged as you type.

Install

Install Kraft (publisher kraft-sdlc) from the VS Code Marketplace, or from Open VSX, the registry VSCodium and Cursor install from. Or search for kraft-sdlc.kraft in the Extensions view.

Every release also attaches the extension as kraft-<version>.vsix. To install one by hand, download it from the GitHub release and run:

code --install-extension kraft-<version>.vsix

The extension needs a running Kraft on the same machine:

kraft admin start

For completion and instant structure checks in config files, also install Red Hat YAML. The extension offers it once if it is missing.

Clear a gate

When a gate opens, VS Code shows a notification with Open, Approve and Reject. Open shows the gate's document in a tab; approve and reject are also in that tab's title bar and on the item in the sidebar.

Review a branch

Run Review Changes on an item, or from a gate document's title bar, to open its branch in the multi-file diff editor. Findings from the review agents show on the lines they name, as a colored bar with the message beside the line, and in the Problems panel. Add a comment on any line, then run Submit Review: your comments go to the agent as one note, as a reject at a gate or as a steer on a paused item. Approving instead asks before it discards your comments.

Edit config files

Files under $KRAFT_HOME/templates (policy.yaml, harnesses.yaml, chains/*.yaml and the rest) get completion from Kraft's JSON Schemas, and the running Kraft checks each edit and flags the line at fault. On a chain file, Show resolved chain previews the chain after inheritance. On save, the extension offers to reload Kraft, or to restart it for files Kraft reads only at startup.

Settings

If Kraft's version does not match the extension's, the extension turns read-only: the board still updates and every action is disabled until you update one of them.