I Built a VS Code Extension That Solves One of the Most Frustrating Problems in AI-Assisted Development

Rajat Jog — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 04:41:42 +0000

A few weeks ago I was debugging an auth issue with Claude Code. 45 minutes in, credits ran out mid-sentence. I switched to Gemini and had to explain everything from scratch — the codebase, the bug, what I'd already tried. It happened again the next day. And the day after that. At some point the frustration crossed a threshold and I just... built something.

Session Bridge AI is a free VS Code extension that keeps a running SESSION.md in your project as you work — automatically capturing your git diff, open files, and progress notes. When your AI tool dies, you press Ctrl+Alt+N, paste into the next tool, and continue exactly where you left off. No re-explaining. No lost context. Ten seconds and you're back in flow.

While building it I accidentally discovered that Claude Code writes detailed token usage logs to your local machine. So I built a token dashboard that reads those files and shows you exactly how much you're burning and what it's costing per project. When I loaded it on my own machine for the first time I saw 6.48 million tokens in 30 days. I had genuinely no idea. That dashboard is now part of the extension — free, no setup needed beyond having Claude Code installed.

It's at v0.5.1 now, works with Gemini (free), Claude, and OpenAI, and takes about 2 minutes to set up. The source is all on GitHub if you want to dig in or contribute. And if you're curious about what else I'm building, my website is here. Would genuinely love to know if this solves something you've been hitting too.

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I Built a VS Code Extension That Solves One of the Most Frustrating Problems in AI-Assisted Development