[feature request] Show attribution for uncommitted AI edits in VS Code?
#1,284 opened on May 6, 2026
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Hey, thanks for working on git-ai.
I tried the VS Code extension — committed AI attribution shows up nicely, but newly accepted AI edits don't have any attribution in the editor until they're committed. In an IDE, the pre-commit moment is exactly when I most want to see the original prompt that generated this code.
Suggested behavior:
- Committed lines → stable attribution from
refs/notes/ai(already works) - Uncommitted lines with checkpoint data → temporary attribution, e.g.
Claude Code · uncommitted - New lines without checkpoint data → unknown/untracked, not guessed
Important: I'm not asking git-ai to detect AI-written code heuristically. This would only surface attribution that git-ai already has in .git/ai/working_logs/ from checkpoints, including the associated prompt.
Maybe this could be exposed through a stable CLI surface, for example by letting git ai blame optionally include working-tree attribution when given the current file contents. That would let the VS Code extension and third-party editor integrations consume it consistently.