Ack-AI

Acknowledge your AI-generated code before it hits production.

Ack-AI is a VS Code extension that enforces a "Human-in-the-Loop" workflow. It scans your source code for AI generation tags and highlights them with a warning until a human developer explicitly acknowledges ("acks") them.

Why Ack-AI?

AI coding assistants (Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude) are powerful, but they can introduce subtle bugs or security hallucinations. Ack-AI ensures that no AI-generated code remains in your codebase without a human explicitly "signing off" on it.

It turns the @ai-gen tag into a mandatory review checkpoint.

Features

• Real-time Monitoring: Instantly detects @ai-gen tags in your code.
• Visual Warning: Highlights unverified AI code with a Warning squiggly line.
• The "Ack" Workflow: The warning persists until you append ok to the tag.
• Context Aware: Highlights not just the comment, but the entire code block (function/class body) following it.
• File-level Tags: Add // @ai-gen at the top of a file to mark the entire file as AI-generated.
• Multi-language Support: Works with 25+ programming languages using language-appropriate comment syntax.

How it Works

1. The Warning State

When you paste or generate code with the tag @ai-gen, Ack-AI flags it immediately.

2. The Acknowledged State

To clear the warning, you must review the code and explicitly "Ack" it by adding ok to the tag.

Supported Languages

Ack-AI supports a wide range of programming languages:

C-style comments (/** */ and //)

• JavaScript (.js, .jsx, .mjs, .cjs)
• TypeScript (.ts, .tsx, .mts, .cts)
• PHP (.php)
• Java (.java)
• C/C++ (.c, .cpp, .h, .hpp)
• C# (.cs)
• Go (.go)
• Rust (.rs)
• Swift (.swift)
• Kotlin (.kt, .kts)
• Scala (.scala)
• Dart (.dart)
• Groovy (.groovy)
• Objective-C (.m, .mm)

Python docstrings (""" and ''') and hash comments (#)

• Python (.py)

Hash comments (#)

• Ruby (.rb)
• Shell/Bash (.sh, .bash, .zsh)
• Perl (.pl, .pm)
• R (.r, .R)
• YAML (.yml, .yaml)
• Dockerfile
• Makefile
• CoffeeScript (.coffee)
• PowerShell (.ps1)
• Elixir (.ex, .exs)

Configuration

No configuration needed! Just install and start reviewing.

• Trigger: @ai-gen
• Safe Keywords: ok (Case insensitive)
• Rejected Keywords: rejected, reject (marks code as explicitly rejected)

Installation

1. Open VS Code.
2. Press F1, type ext install, and search for Ack-AI.
3. Click Install.

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