Zulip Chat Archive

Stream: PR reviews

Topic: aristotle task for command palette


Kim Morrison (Nov 11 2025 at 23:14):

feat: add Aristotle task for command palette #30842

I would like to start being able to conveniently use Aristotle! Could we please have a review/decision on this?

Oliver Nash (Nov 12 2025 at 09:39):

I'm in favour. I've used Aristotle a bit and found it useful and this would make me use it more.

Christian Merten (Nov 12 2025 at 10:10):

To me it seems odd to maintain a .vscode/tasks.json that invokes a third party tool, of which the interface is not under mathlibs control.
Maybe Harmonic would instead like to provide a VS code extension that makes the task in this PR available.

Yaël Dillies (Nov 12 2025 at 10:17):

I agree with Christian, although I would be okay with adding the task in the meantime

Eric Wieser (Nov 12 2025 at 10:53):

Or just (have Harmonic) add documentation to tell users to put this in the file which "Tasks: Open User Tasks" opens in VSCode

Kim Morrison (Nov 12 2025 at 11:07):

But then no one uses it...?

I really dislike doing any custom setup for my Lean installation, because it means I then have a feature than >90% of people will be missing.

(I do agree this argument doesn't completely apply here, as one has to sign up for an API key to make this work.)

Kim Morrison (Nov 12 2025 at 11:09):

My understanding is that Harmonic are intending to do more in this direction. I'd still like to have this in the meantime.

Anatole Dedecker (Nov 12 2025 at 11:11):

But should we be the ones maintaining it? To me it feels out of scope.

Kevin Buzzard (Nov 12 2025 at 19:04):

Kim Morrison said:

But then no one uses it...?

I really dislike doing any custom setup for my Lean installation, because it means I then have a feature than >90% of people will be missing.

(I do agree this argument doesn't completely apply here, as one has to sign up for an API key to make this work.)

I have claude code pro set up on my repos so I have a feature which >90% of people are missing, is this any different?

Nick_adfor (Nov 13 2025 at 08:10):

I've tried to prove by Aristotle but failed. In fact I do not have the ability to check how Aristotle works. I may think not all the coders can check how Aristotle works and develop it : (


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