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The FocusAnalyze extension brings your tasks into your editor, and lets an AI assistant working in that editor attach real notes to the real task.
not the Microsoft Marketplace, so install it from there. Manual .vsix installation works in both.
A Tasks tree, grouped by project and then by status. The statuses shown are your project's real columns, not a generic to-do/doing/done. Overdue and Today are pinned to the top; done tasks are grouped rather than hidden.
Task detail as a real editor tab — description, comments, mark as done — so you're not bounced to a browser to read what a task actually says.
Run FocusAnalyze: Sign In from the command palette. Your browser opens the same hosted sign-in page, and the extension picks up the session when you return.
This is separate from MCP access tokens — the extension has its own sign-in, and connecting one doesn't connect the other.
This is the part the extension exists for.
Run FocusAnalyze: Connect Claude Code to wire an AI assistant running in your editor to the FocusAnalyze MCP server. Once connected, the assistant can read your real tasks and write notes back to them while you work.
The convention is intentionally simple: just name the task. Say "add these notes to the auth refactor task" and the assistant resolves it and writes there. There's no active task to set, no session to register, no state to keep in sync — an earlier version had all of that, and it turned out to add bookkeeping without adding capability.
For a running notes or plan document that gets refined over a long conversation, the assistant updates one document in place rather than posting a new comment every turn.
One caveat worth knowing: those documents are last-write-wins. If two assistants in two editors write the same document on the same task at the same moment, the later write wins and there's no merge. It's fine for running notes, and the wrong tool for something that must never be lost.