Kulala meets (Visual Studio) Code

[gorillamoe]

Kulala for (Visual Studio) Code finally landed about a week ago.

Kulala started as a Neovim only plugin, but has since evolved into a full suite of API testing tools.

All Kulala tools are also using plain .http files, but we strive to be 100% Jetbrains http client compatible. That said we extended the Jetbrains functionality quite a bit, but combine everything that is a Kulala only feature in its own namespace.

We currently have a CLI (runner), Formatter (also CLI, can diff, format/fix, convert from/to Bruno/Postman/Swagger/http), the OG Neovim plugin, a pre-built Docker Image (which you could utilize to run .http tests in your CI), a GitHub Action, and a Desktop application that is still cooking.

There's also a Zed plugin, which is not maintained by us and still uses the v5 branch features of our tree-sitter and LSP, but should be soon upgraded to our new v6 branch core rewrite.

We have a toggle to enable basic compatibility mode for vscode rest-client and also support all the Jetbrains http client features (plus additional features).

It also comes with full tree-sitter syntax highlighting with injections and its own language server.

We support all curl flags (short and long name) and have full jqsupport for filtering response bodies.

Since we have extended scripting capabilities, there are literally no limit on what you can do.

We have examples for shelling out to keepassxc and 1password to fetch passwords, but that's just to give you a glimpse of what is possible.

The attached video is already a bit dated, since we refactored the whole UI, but it helps to have something visual 🥵

Screencast_From_2026-06-18_22-08-17.mp4

You may want to give it a whirl:

• https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mistweaverco.kulala
• https://open-vsx.org/extension/mistweaverco/kulala

Feedback would be highly appreciated 👍🏾

[gorillamoe]

A few hours ago, the standalone desktop app has also been released.

We got you covered for all these flavors now:

• Neovim
• vscode
• Desktop app
• CLI
• Zed (not by us, but based upon Kulala tools)