Implant – an extension to VS Code that exposes its APIs to coding agents

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I don't understand why Microsoft and JetBrains haven't already done this. I don't need an IDE for myself anymore, but I'd sure like my agents to be able to right-mouse-click and refactor a method deterministically

JetBrains actually HAS done this, and made a protocol out of it: https://www.jetbrains.com/acp/

BTW, a sister project for JetBrains IDEs: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/30019-mcp-steroid

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