wtf is agentic-workflow-designer-vsc-extension?

This project is an extension for Visual Studio Code that lets developers build automated workflows by dragging and dropping shapes on a visual canvas, instead of writing code by hand. Each shape, called a node, represents a step in the workflow, such as starting the process, running an AI agent, checking a condition, waiting for a human to approve something, pausing for a set time, or ending the workflow. The workflows are designed to run using GitHub Copilot's custom agent feature. Each agent node in a workflow points to a written instruction file that tells an AI agent what its job is, like planning a task, writing code, testing it, or reviewing it. When you run a workflow, the extension opens Copilot Chat and starts executing each node in order, showing live colored status updates on the canvas so you can see which steps are running, finished, or failed. Workflows can branch based on conditions, retry steps in a loop, and pause for human approval before continuing. All of this is saved as YAML files, a plain text format, which means workflows can be tracked and shared using version control tools like git, the same way code is. To use it, you need Node.js, npm, a recent version of VS Code, and GitHub Copilot with chat and custom agent support turned on. Installing it involves running a few build commands from the project's source code and then installing the resulting extension package into VS Code manually, since it is not yet listed on the extension marketplace. The project includes example agent files for common roles like planning, implementing, testing, and reviewing, along with sample workflow files to help new users understand the format. The README does not state which open source license the project uses.