What happened to Archivist?

discontinued The registry marked Archivist discontinued on 2026-09-13: its check failed three consecutive times. Last successful sync: 2026-08-20.

Archivist is an AI-powered extension for Visual Studio Code that provides a semantic search feature for any codebase. This tool specializes in quickly searching through the codebase and succinctly summarizing the functionality of matched code snippets. Archivist also automatically updates its index ...

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How this was decided

Not an editorial call. Archivist's check failed three syncs in a row, and the 3-miss rule marks it discontinued automatically. If the vendor page comes back, the registry restores it on its own: warn first, then active. Both directions are recorded as events.

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