Setups/working looks pretty similar to aider [1] that I've been using and liking, Aider is smaller steps than plandex, but plandex went into some kind of loops a couple of times so I stoped using it for now.
In the meantime, when you open a Codespace from Copilot Workspace, you could open that Codespace in VS Code desktop. And use that as a companion editor to the web client (since we bi-directionally sync file changes between them). But totally agreed that a more integrated VS Code experience will be compelling!
That's indeed pretty cool and as you said it's not an either-or. Thanks for providing more background.
Hey, Plandex creator here. I just pushed a release today that includes fixes for exactly this kind of problem - https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex/releases/tag/cli%2Fv0.... -- Plandex now has a much better 'working memory' that helps it not to go into loops, repeat steps it's already done, or give up too early.
I'd love to hear whether it's working better for you now.