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hey I got to play around with it a bit in vscode, and my main takeaway is - the content is generates is good, and the experience of taking a tour/walkthrough is a positive one - but the UI for actually generating and launching tours feels a bit wonky.

I could only get the MCP to work via Claude, not Copilot or Codex - and I couldn't find an easy way to get back to the 'setup' screen where it provides the config, so I had to keep resetting the extension so that that prompt would come back up - removing that friction seems essential, if the initial configuration doesn't work, then getting back to that screen is a necessity

I feel like I'm missing a GUI button to launch a tour/walkthrough - asking the LLM to do it for me feels weird, when the markdown file is sitting right there. I'd much rather just right-click a markdown file, and select "Intraview: Launch Tour" or something.

I'm less of a terminal guy, so this appearing to lack a solid GUI, or integration with the GUI of my IDE, is discouraging for me personally. But the fact that it generates solid info is encouraging, and the process of giving feedback and refining the walkthrough steps also feels (and works) pretty good.

I'd probably wait til there's a little more polish before playing with it again, but I'll keep it in mind! Cool thing!

cyrusradfar a month ago [ - ]

My next release is focused on having a sidebar UI and launcher that'll probably make some of your issues go away. This would allow you to

  - relaunch old tours
  - open/manage feedback 
  - open help which will (fingers crossed) include some videos and getting started

Really appreciate the thoughtful feedback. Thank you!

Following up:

Double clicking on something you said, "I could only get the MCP to work via Claude, not Copilot or Codex" -- did you mean that getting it to actually connect or having the Agent use the MCP properly after it's connected.