A quick note on where Aspect Code is headed.
After spending time with the VS Code extension, I've decided to step back from it and move in a different direction: a CLI-first tool centered on AGENTS.md. This is a meaningful shift, but the right one.
The extension added a lot of surface area — integration complexity, editor-specific constraints, UI concerns — without moving the core research forward. What I actually care about is iterative context refinement: the idea that the context you give an agent should improve over time based on observed outcomes, not be static configuration you set once and forget.
That research is better served by a CLI. It's simpler to distribute, easier to iterate on, and fits naturally with how modern AI coding tools actually work — through files like AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md rather than a sidebar panel. Meeting agents where they already read context is a cleaner model.
The VS Code extension isn't gone forever. But removing that constraint right now opens more room to experiment and move faster on the things that matter. More on what that looks like soon.