OpenClaw VS Code Extension

AI coding assistant for VS Code, powered by OpenClaw.

Features

• 💬 Chat with AI - Sidebar and popup panel chat interface
• 🔄 Diff Preview & Apply - Visual preview and apply code changes
• 🎯 Session-level Model Switching - Per-session model override, multi-window independent
• 🔌 Real-time Connection Status - Live WebSocket connection indicator
• 📨 Message Queue - Send messages while AI is responding, auto-queued
• 🔧 Tool Call Display - Real-time tool invocation feedback via auto-refresh polling
• 💡 Friendly Error Messages - Smart error classification with actionable suggestions
• 🎯 Skills & Workflows - Auto-detect and use project skills
• 📎 File & Image Attachments - Attach code files and images to your messages
• 🖼️ Image Paste & Vision - Paste images from clipboard, auto-sent as multimodal vision attachments
• 📁 Drag & Drop Files - Drag files from Explorer, file tree, or editor tabs
• 🔄 Dynamic Model List - Real-time model catalog via Gateway RPC
• 🔄 Multi-window Support - Up to 5 parallel chat sessions with independent history
• 🌍 Multi-language - Full i18n for UI and AI responses (zh-CN, en, ja, ko)
• 🪟 Windows & WSL Support - Enhanced Windows/WSL compatibility with auto-fallback

What’s New in v0.2.24

🖼️ Image Multimodal Vision

• Native vision transport — Pasted/dropped images are sent as base64 attachments via Gateway’s chat.send, injected into the LLM’s multimodal image content block
• Auto disk image conversion — Image files (.png/.jpg/.jpeg/.gif/.webp/.bmp/.svg) referenced via attachment button or drag-drop are auto-read from disk and converted to base64 attachments
• Text deduplication — Image paths already converted to attachments are removed from message text

🔄 Dynamic Model List via RPC

• RPC-first — Model list fetched via Gateway RPC models.list + sessions.list, reflecting runtime model catalog
• Config file fallback — Falls back to local config files if RPC fails
• Fuzzy matching — Current model always appears in the list

Installation

From GitHub Releases (Recommended)

1. Download the latest .vsix from Releases
2. Open VS Code
3. Press Ctrl+Shift+P → “Extensions: Install from VSIX…”
4. Select the downloaded file

From Open VSX

1. Open VS Code / VSCodium
2. Go to Extensions (Ctrl+Shift+X)
3. Search for “OpenClaw”
4. Click Install

Requirements

• OpenClaw must be installed and running
• Gateway should be accessible at http://localhost:18789 (default)

Windows Users

If you encounter “Cannot find openclaw” error:

1. Find your OpenClaw path:

   where openclaw
   

2. Configure in VS Code Settings (Ctrl+,):

   • Search for “OpenClaw: Openclaw Path”
   • Enter the path, e.g.: