VS Code and Cursor Chat Session Functions

Jumpshell includes analysis utilities for chat history, edit sessions, and workspace storage correlation.

Primary implementation lives under src/pwsh/vscode.

Quick Start 

Import-Module .\Jumpshell.psd1 -Force

Get-VSCodeChatSessions -Path . | Select-Object -First 5 Title, MessageCount, LastModified
Get-VSCodeChatEditingSessions -Path . | Select-Object -First 5 SessionId, FileCount, OperationCount

Core Commands

Session discovery

  • Get-VSCodeChatSessions
  • Get-VSCodeChatSessionHistory

Editing correlation

  • Get-VSCodeChatEditingSessions
  • Get-VSCodeChatEditingFiles
  • Get-VSCodeChatEditingOperations
  • Find-VSCodeChatEditingSessionByMessage

Search and archive

  • Search-VsCodeChat
  • Copy-VsCodeChatSessions

Common Object Methods 

$session = Get-VSCodeChatSessions -Path . | Select-Object -First 1
$messages = $session.GetMessages()
$editSession = $session.GetEditingSession()

$messages[0].GetFileEdits()
$editSession.GetFiles()
$editSession.GetOperations()

Alias Compatibility

Jumpshell auto-creates -Ai- aliases for many -VSCodeChat- commands.

Examples:

  • Get-AiEditingSessions -> alias for Get-VSCodeChatEditingSessions
  • Search-AiSessions -> alias for Search-VsCodeChat
  • Search-Ai -> alias for Search-VsCodeChat

Typical Workflows

1. Find messages that changed files 

$session = Get-VSCodeChatSessions -Path . | Select-Object -First 1
$session.GetMessages() | ForEach-Object {
    $edits = $_.GetFileEdits()
    if ($edits) {
        [PSCustomObject]@{
            Request = ($_.Request.Substring(0, [Math]::Min(80, $_.Request.Length)))
            FilesChanged = $edits.FileCount
            Files = ($edits.FilesModified | ForEach-Object { Split-Path $_ -Leaf }) -join ', '
        }
    }
}

2. Search across sessions 

Search-VsCodeChat -Query "workspaceStorage" -Path .
Search-VsCodeChat -Query "Install-JumpshellMcp" -Path .
Search-VsCodeChat -Query "Get-VSCode.*" -Regex -Path .

3. Archive for analysis 

Copy-VsCodeChatSessions -Path . -DestinationPath .\chat-archive
Copy-VsCodeChatSessions -Path . -DestinationPath .\chat-archive -Normalize

Archive output includes:

  • _manifest.json
  • MANIFEST.md
  • copied chatSessions/ and chatEditingSessions/
  • optional normalized datasets from extract_copilot_chat_context.py

Storage Paths

Actual storage root depends on editor variant/profile.

Pattern:

  • %APPDATA%\<Editor>\User\workspaceStorage\{hash}\chatSessions\
  • %APPDATA%\<Editor>\User\workspaceStorage\{hash}\chatEditingSessions\

Common <Editor> values:

  • Code
  • Code - Insiders
  • Cursor
  • VSCodium

Resolve active location through:

  • Resolve-VscodeProfile
  • Get-VSCodeWorkspaceStorage