KnoxCoder

KnoxCoder is a code editor based on Visual Studio Code open source.

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Knox

Knox (sidebar chat, agent, Memory Brain, checkpoints) is a system extension (vscode.knox), the same class as Git. Linux and Windows CI package it with packageNativeLocalExtensionsStream (host dist/, webview gui/, platform sqlite). macOS uses ./build_dmg.sh (no GitHub Actions macOS job). It is in the editor on first launch — no Open VSX install.

• Disable: Extensions view → Knox → Disable. It cannot be uninstalled.
• Do not install knoxchat.knoxchat from the marketplace in KnoxCoder. That id is hidden, blocked from install, and disabled if a leftover user copy is present.
• Vanilla VS Code / Open VSX: this fork does not publish Knox as a store VSIX. Marketplace Knox stays in the separate kc product tree (Knox 1.4.6) for vanilla VS Code only.

Command, view, and setting IDs stay knoxchat.* so existing keybindings and settings.json keep working.

Note — global data directory is ~/.knoxcoder, not ~/.knox. Knox in KnoxCoder stores its global config (config.yaml, sharedConfig.json, .env, .knoxignore, .knoxrules), Memory Brain (memory/), sessions, checkpoints, rules, prompts, skills, logs, and job output under ~/.knoxcoder so it never collides with the external Knox marketplace extension (knoxchat.knoxchat), which keeps using ~/.knox. There is no fallback to or migration from ~/.knox; copy files over manually if you want to reuse them. KNOX_GLOBAL_DIR still overrides the location.

Documentation

• What is KnoxCoder
• Privacy
• Network
• Security / threat model
• Release / update
• How to Contribute

License

Copyright (c) KnoxStudio.

KnoxCoder is licensed under the GNU GPL-3.0. This repository includes Visual Studio Code source from Microsoft, which remains available under MIT.