COPYRIGHT concerns over UNOFFICIAL codewhale extensions on vscode marketplace

[VerrPower]

Hi Hunter,

I'm a regular user of CodeWhale and really appreciate your work on this project.

I just noticed two unofficial extensions using the name CodeWhale have been published to the VS Code Marketplace:

1. HengQuWorld.brotherwhale-vscode (Publisher: HengQuWorld)
2. HaiTaoJiang.codewhale-vscode (Publisher: HaiTao Jiang)

Both were released on May 26, 2026, exactly 3 days after you renamed the project from DeepSeek-TUI to CodeWhale on May 23, 2026.

Neither publisher had any prior extensions, so their accounts appear to have been created specifically to release these wrap versions. There is currently no official VS Code extension from you or the CodeWhale team.

I noticed on your roadmap that the VS Code extension is listed as your top priority. Since these unofficial releases are already out there under the CodeWhale name, it would mean a lot to many of us if you could move forward with the official release as soon as possible — to help keep the community from getting confused or having the brand diluted by third-party builds.

[Hmbown]

v0.9 stewardship update: I opened #2828 to keep moving the official VS Code extension forward.

The new slice is intentionally narrow and official-extension-only: it renders recent read-only restore points from the local runtime in the Agent View panel, building on the Phase 0 extension scaffold already on codex/v0.9.0-stewardship. It does not publish to the Marketplace yet, and it does not add restore/retry/undo mutation controls.

Thanks @VerrPower for flagging the unofficial-extension confusion; that concern is now preserved in the v0.9 GUI/VS Code credit trail.