Slashi — One / popup for commands, files, settings, Git…

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About this project

Slashi is a free, open-source VS Code extension for developers who are tired of switching between the Command Palette, Quick Open, the Settings UI and a terminal. Press Cmd/Ctrl + / and one popup searches all of them, plus Git and your project's own scripts. No telemetry, MIT-licensed.

Slashi demo

Why I built it

I was jumping between five places in VS Code for things I do dozens of times a day: the Command Palette for commands, Quick Open for files, the Settings UI, the Source Control view and a terminal. Slashi puts them behind one shortcut.

What it does

One list for everything: about 170 VS Code commands with short slash names (/format, /zen), every extension command and setting, files, open tabs, symbols, problems, Git branches and themes.
Knows your project: reads package.json, Makefile, justfile, Cargo, go.mod, pyproject and docker-compose, and offers /test, /dev, /compose-up. /test --watch passes arguments through.
Settings in place: booleans toggle, enums pick, and values can be set per workspace or per language.
Scopes: /f files, /git, /set settings, /npm scripts, /ext extensions, /err problems, /@ symbols.
Your own commands: chain steps (save all → run tests → commit → push) with a wizard, and share them with your team in .vscode/slashi.json.
Optional AI: /ask, /fix, /commit-msg, /review-changes, and /do <plain English>, which turns a sentence into a plan of real commands and settings that you confirm before it runs. Works with GitHub Copilot, Claude, OpenAI, Claude Code/Codex, Ollama or any OpenAI-compatible server.

Safety

Commands defined by a workspace are ignored in untrusted workspaces.
Shared team commands and installed packs show their steps and ask before anything that can reach a shell.
API keys stay in VS Code's Secret Storage, and a repository can't change your AI backend or its URL.
No telemetry.

Install

VS Code Marketplace
Open VSX (VSCodium, Cursor and other editors)
code --install-extension meness.slashi

Press Cmd / on macOS or Ctrl / on Windows and Linux, then type. By default Slashi moves "toggle line comment" to Cmd/Ctrl Alt /; one setting (slashi.shortcut.useSlashKey) gives you the default back.

For extension authors

Other extensions can add commands or a whole provider with its own scope, for example /jira listing your tickets. See the guide.

Status

v0.6, free and MIT-licensed. Source, issues and roadmap: github.com/meness/slashi. Feedback is very welcome.