groundcrew
No database / No cloud account / Markdown + YAML on disk
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A playground that mimics the real extension — click around, nothing here is a live VS Code instance.

Click any badge to set a status — live Frozen project column, horizontal checkpoint scroll Click a KPI to flash the rows behind it

Your ground crew for predictable delivery.

Local-first engineering management inside VS Code. Git-backed, zero-setup, total privacy.

Install in VS Code .vsix download
Free, forever, local

Zero setup. Three files.

Open a workspace, click the Runway icon, initialise an example workspace. Groundcrew parses YAML front matter and writes your edits back to the same Markdown, so Git stays the audit log.

Local Markdown front matter as the only source of truth Risk radar across owners, streams and quarters Bi-directional status updates written back to your files
projects/<name>/overview.md weeks/35 - 2026-08-24.md
---
type: project_overview
project_id: ACME-101
project_name: Acme Checkout Revamp
owner: Alice Chen
target_quarter: 2026-Q3
priority: High
---
| DONE | Discovery | link |
| IN_PROGRESS | Design Review | link |
| TODO | Tech Spec | |

Install it and open a workspace.

Install in VS Code .vsix download