IDE extensions

Score & rewrite prompts without leaving your editor.

The same AI prompt enhancer that lives in your browser now ships as a native IDE extension. Select a prompt in VS Code or Cursor, fire one command, and get scores, clarifying questions and a rewrite — right where you write code.

Install for VS CodeInstall for CursorJetBrainssoon
  • Free & MIT-licensed
  • Classify + Optimize in one command
  • Secret-storage API key
  • Works with self-hosted API
Editor · quick start
sh
# VS Code: Marketplace
code --install-extension aipromptfixer.ai-prompt-fixer
 
# Cursor: Open VSX (default registry)
#   Extensions pane → search "AI Prompt Fixer" → Install
 
# Optional: point at the classify API
#   Settings → Extensions → AI Prompt Fixer
#   apf.classifierBaseUrl = "https://your-api.example.com"
#   Run "APF: Set Classifier API Key" to save the key
Three editors, one extension

Where it runs today.

Available

VS Code

Install from the Visual Studio Marketplace. Works on macOS, Linux and Windows with VS Code 1.85+.

Available

Cursor

Published to Open VSX, so Cursor users install it in one click from the Extensions pane. No VSIX gymnastics required.

Coming soon

JetBrains

IntelliJ, WebStorm, PyCharm, Android Studio and the rest of the JetBrains family — on the roadmap, same classify/optimize API under the hood.

How you actually use it

One command, four flows that match how you already work.

The IDE extension mirrors the browser experience: classify the prompt, optimise it, apply it. Without the context switch of opening ChatGPT.

Fix a prompt from the editor

Select text in any file — a prompt draft, a Markdown note, a template — right-click, pick “APF: Fix Selected Prompt”, and choose Replace, Insert below, Copy or Open in sidebar.

Command Palette flow

Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+P → APF shows every command. Open the Prompt Fixer tool window, set your API key, or fix the current selection in one keystroke.

Webview sidebar

The activity-bar panel hosts the same live coach you get in the browser: scores, tips, clarifying questions and a one-click apply.

Works with your own API

Point the extension at our hosted classify API, a self-hosted instance, or the local one you run in development — all via a single setting.

Commands

Everything in the palette.

Three commands cover the whole extension. Two are one-off, the third is the one you will keep coming back to.

Command

APF: Fix Selected Prompt

Classifies and optimises the current selection, line or clipboard, then offers Replace / Insert below / Copy / Open in sidebar.

APF: Open Prompt Fixer

Focuses the Prompt Fixer panel so you can paste, iterate and apply rewrites.

APF: Set Classifier API Key

Stores the x-api-key in secure storage (per machine). Submit an empty value to clear it.

Settings

Two knobs. Sane defaults.

apf.classifierBaseUrl

Base URL of the classify API. /classify and /optimize are appended.

default: http://127.0.0.1:3001

apf.platform

Optional tag sent with each request: chatgpt, claude, gemini, perplexity, copilot or unknown.

default: unknown

API keys

Saved in the editor secret storage (per machine). Clear them by running the Set API Key command with an empty value.

Same privacy story as the browser extension

The IDE extension sends only the prompt you explicitly select to the classify API. Prompt text is processed in-memory and never persisted. API keys live in the editor secret storage — never in your repo, never in settings.json.

Read the full privacy policy
IDE FAQ

Install & integration questions.

Yes. It is MIT-licensed and free on the Visual Studio Marketplace and Open VSX. You only pay for the classify API if you self-host a paid model provider.
Yes. Point apf.classifierBaseUrl at our hosted classify API and you are done. If you run the classifier locally for development, point it at http://127.0.0.1:3001 instead.
No. Prompt text is sent to the classify API for scoring and rewriting, then discarded. Your API key is kept in the editor secret storage, which is the same secure keychain used by GitHub and other first-party extensions.
The scaffolding is in place — Kotlin + Gradle, same classify/optimize contract as the VS Code extension. We will announce a beta as soon as the tool window and context action are signed and published.
Yes. The extension is published to Open VSX, which is the registry Cursor uses by default, so installation is one click from the Extensions pane.
Install in under 30 seconds

Ship better prompts without leaving your editor.

Prefer the browser? The Chrome, Edge and Firefox add-ons still cover every major AI chat tool.

Install for VS CodeInstall for CursorJetBrainssoon
or
Add to ChromeAdd to EdgeAdd to Firefox