vtcode-battery-pack

Curated battery pack of VT Code crates for building Rust coding agents with OS-native sandboxing, multi-provider LLM support, and extensible skills.

What's Included

Feature	Crates	Description
config	vtcode-config	Config loader components shared across VT Code
commons	vtcode-commons	Shared traits for paths, telemetry, and error reporting
macros	vtcode-macros	Procedural macros for VT Code
protocols	vtcode-acp	ACP bridge and client implementation for Zed
execution	vtcode-bash-runner, vtcode-exec-events	Shell execution sandbox and execution telemetry
state	vtcode-session-store	Session state, durable loop state, and progress tracking
tools	vtcode-utility-tool-specs, vtcode-indexer	Tool specs and code indexing/search
eval	vtcode-eval	Agent evaluation framework
auth	vtcode-auth	OAuth and credential storage

Quick Start

cargo bp add vtcode-battery-pack

Or pick a subset:

cargo bp add vtcode-battery-pack --features config,commons,execution

Start a new project from the minimal template:

cargo bp new vtcode-battery-pack --template minimal

Presets

• default — execution + state + tools + auth
• full — every crate in the pack

Why not vtcode-core / vtcode-ui?

The currently published vtcode-core and vtcode-ui versions on crates.io have compilation issues with their rmcp dependency. They also depend on internal crates (vtcode-a2a, vtcode-mcp, vtcode-llm, vtcode-skills, vtcode-safety) that are not published separately. These will be added to the battery pack once they are available and stable on crates.io.

Resources

• Battery Pack — core tooling for creating and managing packs
• Rust Book — guide to battery packs in the Rust ecosystem
• Blog Post — announcing battery packs for Rust
• VT Code — the full coding agent application these crates are extracted from

License

Licensed under either of:

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.