AutoDevVS Code extension · beta · Windows only
Don't waste your subscription.
Give it one objective, then go live your life. AutoDev keeps working while you are away, on the agent CLI you already have — claude, codex or agy, the providers supported for now — and on the subscription you already pay for.
- Autonomous, unsupervisedIt decides on its own and keeps going. No confirmation at every step.
- Agents that talk to each otherOne shared thread where agents hand work over, review it and reply to each other.
- No login, no retentionIt uses the CLI you already have signed in, never touches your provider account, and sends nothing you produce to AutoDev.
A scripted replay of the AutoDev panel, with the shape of a real run. Every name, time and figure inside the frame is written for this demo, and none of them is a measurement. Nothing here is connected to an AutoDev that is running.
The weekly quota
A subscription you do not use costs the same as one you do.
A monthly subscription is four weekly quota windows. Whatever you leave unused in a week is gone when the window resets, and you paid for it anyway. AutoDev keeps working until each window is spent.
Illustrative example of how to read a weekly quota window, not a measurement.
The mechanisms
Five things it does while nobody is watching.
You set the objective and walk away. AutoDev decides for itself what to do next and keeps going, and it stops to ask only when a decision is yours to make.
A shared thread
Your team is a set of participants that talk to each other on one shared thread: each reads what the others said, takes a turn and hands over. It is not one agent in a loop. One implements, another reviews, and a participant that disagrees says so on the thread; the next turn answers it.
Give each participant a role in plain words — an implementer, a reviewer, whatever the work needs — and pin its provider, model and effort from the panel. Each one is a file in your project, so the team is something you read and review like code.
Failover across providers
When a provider reports a usage limit, AutoDev reads the reset time and gives the next turn to a teammate whose provider is free, or to the next entry in the participant's failover list. The handover happens at a turn boundary, without stopping the run.
When every provider is limited, AutoDev sleeps until the nearest reset and carries on by itself. Add a second provider and a limit stops being a pause.
It survives everything
The daemon runs apart from the editor. Close the terminal, quit VS Code, kill the process: the work keeps going, or a supervisor starts it again. Reboot the machine and nothing is lost: send a message from the panel and the run picks up from the last completed turn. Nobody has to leave a tab open or stay nearby.
What you read and edit — the objective, the memory the agents keep, the team — lives in your project's .autodev/ folder. What the machine needs to resume stays outside your project, on your disk.
AutoDev never touches your CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md.
.autodev/ goal.md memory.md config.json mcp.json participants/
Check in from anywhere
Control your project from wherever you are. Turn on remote access in the panel, pair your phone with a short code, and you are looking at the same feed you would see at your desk.
Read what the agents are saying, answer the question the run is holding on, point at a file, send a photo of the whiteboard. It is enough to redirect a run at 3am without going back to the desk.
The link is yours alone: a new one every time, and it goes away when you turn remote access off.
AutoDev
Enter the pairing code shown in the panel.
Pairing codeK7QM-4TWXA demonstration you can tap. It is not connected to a machine or a model.
It shows you the waste
The quota panel shows how long your subscription sat idle, how long the agents worked and how many commits that turned into, with a row for each provider.
Behind it is a ledger on your disk: every call, every limit crossed and every commit produced.
What you need
Most of it is already on your machine.
AutoDev works with the tools you already use. There is no account to create and nothing to sign in to.
claude, codex or agy, the providers supported for now. Use the one you already have; AutoDev never handles your credentials.cloudflared, to check in from your phoneInstall
Install, open, say what you want.
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Install from the Marketplace
Version 0.2.0. It carries the engine and everything it needs: nothing else to download, no npm install. Updates arrive through VS Code on their own.
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Or from a terminal
PowerShellcode --install-extension stefanolabs.autodev-vscode
Or in VS Code: Extensions, search AutoDev, Install.
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Open the panel
Command paletteAutoDev: Open
The AutoDev icon appears in the activity bar. Open the panel on a project folder, set up your team once — that is also how you give AutoDev permission to work in that folder — and say what you want built.