BareMTL

BareMTL is a minimal, lightweight desktop code editor. It is a fork of Code - OSS with all AI features and most extra features removed.

What is included

The editor, file explorer, search, and settings
Integrated terminal
Git / Source Control
Debugger (JavaScript debugger built in)
Tasks
Language support: TypeScript/JavaScript, JSON, HTML, CSS, Markdown (with preview), Emmet
Themes, grammars, and snippets
Welcome page and walkthroughs

All AI features: chat, inline chat, agents, MCP, Copilot, speech and voice, AI search
Telemetry and experiments
Settings Sync, edit sessions, and the profiles UI
Notebooks / Jupyter
Testing and Timeline views
Web, server, remote, and tunnel targets (BareMTL is Electron desktop only)
The extension marketplace and the Extensions view. The extension host still runs the bundled built-in extensions only.

Requires the Node.js version in .nvmrc.

npm ci
npm run compile
./scripts/code.sh

Package a build for the current platform, for example Linux x64:

npm run gulp vscode-linux-x64-min

Name		Name	Last commit message	Last commit date
.agents/skills/launch		.agents/skills/launch
.config		.config
.devcontainer		.devcontainer
.eslint-plugin-local		.eslint-plugin-local
.github		.github
.vscode		.vscode
build		build
extensions		extensions
resources		resources
scripts		scripts
src		src
test		test
.editorconfig		.editorconfig
.eslint-allowed-bracket-notation-files		.eslint-allowed-bracket-notation-files
.eslint-allowed-javascript-files		.eslint-allowed-javascript-files
.eslint-ignore		.eslint-ignore
.git-blame-ignore-revs		.git-blame-ignore-revs
.gitattributes		.gitattributes
.gitignore		.gitignore
.lsifrc.json		.lsifrc.json
.mailmap		.mailmap
.mcp.json		.mcp.json
.mention-bot		.mention-bot
.npmrc		.npmrc
.nvmrc		.nvmrc
.vscode-test.js		.vscode-test.js
AGENTS.md		AGENTS.md
CONTRIBUTING.md		CONTRIBUTING.md
LICENSE.txt		LICENSE.txt
README.md		README.md
SECURITY.md		SECURITY.md
ThirdPartyNotices.txt		ThirdPartyNotices.txt
cglicenses.json		cglicenses.json
cgmanifest.json		cgmanifest.json
eslint.config.js		eslint.config.js
gulpfile.mjs		gulpfile.mjs
package-lock.json		package-lock.json
package.json		package.json
product.json		product.json
tsfmt.json		tsfmt.json