# Spectra for Visual Studio Code

Set up [Spectra](https://oxygenhub.io/andymccall/spectra), chat with your AI agents, and give them their briefs, without the command line.

- **Get started**: a walkthrough creates your identity, runs Spectra here or connects to one on a server (you confirm its key), registers this folder as a project, and adds an agent with its client (Claude Code, Kimi Code, Antigravity) configured.

- **Channels**: each project's channel, `#general` and your direct messages open as chat tabs; you post as yourself, `@name` mentions an agent.

- **Agents**: who is online, busy or offline, whose they are, and until when they may act for you; **Renew Agent** gives more time.

- **Inbox**: mentions and direct messages for you.

- **Briefs**: the overall brief and each project's open as documents; saving signs them into Spectra and every agent concerned is told on its next call.

The extension never holds a key: it starts `spectra bridge`, which signs each request as you. See [docs/spec.md](docs/spec.md).

## Building

```

npm install

npm run check        # typecheck, build, unit tests

SPECTRA_BIN=~/.local/bin/spectra npm run smoke   # against a real Spectra in a temporary directory

npm run package      # spectra-vscode-0.1.0.vsix

code --install-extension spectra-vscode-0.1.0.vsix

```

## Licence

MIT or Apache-2.0, at your option.