Unofficial ChatGPT inside VSCode: ask, refactor, paste

What it does

The extension parks a ChatGPT chat panel inside VSCode. You can type questions, feed it selected code snippets, and insert answers back into your file. It also carries conversation context across follow-up questions, so you can nag the model repeatedly without losing the thread.

The interesting bit

The whole thing rides the unofficial ChatGPT API via a browser session token you paste from a cookie—no official API key, just a web-scraping workaround. That makes it feel more like a browser automation dressed up as an IDE feature.

Key highlights

• Sidebar chat with persistent conversation memory.
• Right-click commands to explain, refactor, find problems, or optimize selected code.
• Clickable code blocks in responses that drop directly into the active editor.
• Customizable prompt templates for the built-in context-menu commands.
• Built on the unofficial chatgpt-api package.

Caveats

• Authentication requires manually extracting a session token from browser cookies, which is brittle and unofficial.
• The README explicitly labels the extension as a proof of concept that may carry bugs or limitations.

Verdict

Worth a look if you want ChatGPT inside your editor and do not mind the cookie-jar authentication dance. If you need enterprise-grade stability or an official API, this is not your tool.