· Christian Findlay

Run Mise Tasks From the VS Code Sidebar - CommandTree 0.9.0

mise VS Code extension monorepo

You moved your project to mise for tool versions and tasks. Now every script lives in mise.toml. Great — until you need to run one and you are back to typing mise tasks, scrolling, copying a name, and hoping you spelt it right.

CommandTree 0.9.0 puts every mise task in the VS Code sidebar. One click to run.

Every Mise File, Auto-Discovered

Open any workspace and CommandTree finds your mise tasks automatically. All four config formats are supported:

  • mise.toml
  • .mise.toml
  • mise.yaml
  • .mise.yaml

Both TOML tasks ([tasks.build] sections) and YAML task maps work. Descriptions are pulled through and shown as tooltips, so you know what each task does before you run it.

[tasks.build]
description = "Compile the CLI in release mode"
run = "cargo build --release"

Appears in the tree as build, with the description on hover.

One Click to Run

Click any mise task and CommandTree opens a new terminal in the same directory as the mise.toml file and runs mise run <task>. Tool versions, environment variables, and dependencies all resolve normally — it is exactly the same command you would type yourself. Tasks with parameters get prompted for input before they run.

Mise And Everything Else

This is the part the mise-only extensions can't do. Most real projects are not pure mise. There is a Makefile from before the migration, an npm run lint script in package.json, a couple of shell scripts in scripts/, maybe a Justfile for the deploy step.

CommandTree discovers 22 command types and shows them in one tree:

mise tasks, npm scripts, Makefile targets, Just recipes, Taskfile, shell scripts, Python scripts, PowerShell, Cargo, Gradle, Maven, Ant, Deno, Rake, Composer, Docker Compose services, .NET projects, C# scripts, F# scripts, VS Code tasks, launch configs, and Markdown files.

One extension instead of three. Filter by tag, pin favourites, search by text — it all works across every command type at once.

Hover to See What a Task Does

With GitHub Copilot installed, CommandTree reads the run body of each mise task and generates a plain-language summary on hover. Dangerous operations get a security warning indicator. Read more in AI Summaries on Hover.

Monorepo-Friendly

Got a monorepo with a mise.toml in every package? CommandTree picks them all up. Each task runs in its own package directory, so relative paths and per-package tool versions just work. No configuration, no glob lists.

Get Started

Install CommandTree from the VS Code Marketplace, open a workspace with a mise.toml, and the Mise Tasks category appears in the sidebar. That's it.

code --install-extension nimblesite.commandtree

For the full feature list see the CommandTree docs, and for everything mise tasks can do see the mise tasks documentation.