Patchloom for VS Code
This release aligns the extension with Patchloom CLI v0.6.0, the biggest CLI release to date: 41 PRs, 112 files changed, and 1,816 tests.
What's new in the CLI
11 AST tools for code-aware agents
The CLI's MCP server now exposes 43 tools (up from 32), with 11 new AST tools powered by tree-sitter:
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
ast_list |
List symbol definitions (functions, classes, structs) across 20 languages |
ast_read |
Read a specific symbol's source code by name |
ast_rename |
Rename identifiers across files (skips strings and comments) |
ast_validate |
Check syntax and report parse errors with line numbers |
ast_search |
Structural search using tree-sitter queries and code patterns |
ast_refs |
Find all references to a symbol, distinguishing definitions from uses |
ast_deps |
Extract import/dependency statements from source files |
ast_map |
Generate a ranked repository map using PageRank over the symbol graph |
ast_diff |
Structural diff showing added, removed, and modified symbols |
ast_impact |
Transitive impact analysis: trace dependents through the reference graph |
ast_replace |
Replace text only within a specific symbol's body |
Declarative MCP tool registry
The MCP server architecture was rebuilt around a declarative registry. Tool schemas are derived directly from Rust types via schemars, eliminating schema drift between CLI operations and MCP tools.
Performance improvements
spawn_blockingfor all sync I/O on Tokio's blocking thread pool, critical for HTTP/HTTPS transport under concurrent requests- Tree-sitter parse tree caching for repeated AST queries against the same file
- PageRank convergence using L1-norm (threshold 1e-6) instead of fixed iterations
Bug fixes
doc flattennow includes empty arrays and empty objects instead of silently dropping them- Transaction engine preserves idempotent delete semantics within a plan
search --jsonlwith zero matches returns exit code 3 consistentlyast_renamewith a no-op rename returns early instead of rewriting files identically- Git argument injection blocked across all commands that accept paths
- Concurrent-write warnings added to all MCP tool descriptions
Install or update the CLI
brew upgrade patchloom # Homebrew
cargo install patchloom # crates.ioOr run Patchloom: Update Patchloom from the VS Code command palette if using the managed installer.