I Built a Visual Spec-Driven Development Extension for VS Code That Works With Any LLM

I Built a Visual Spec-Driven Development Extension for VS Code That Works With Any LLM The Problem If you've tried GitHub's Spec Kit, you know the value of spec-driven development: define requirements before coding, let AI generate structured specs, plans, and tasks. It's a great workflow. But there's a gap. Spec Kit works through slash commands in chat. No visual UI, no progress tracking, no approval workflow. You type /speckit.specify, read the output, type /speckit.plan, and so on. It works, but it's not visual. Kiro (Amazon's VS Code fork) offers a visual experience — but locks you into their specific LLM and requires leaving VS Code for a custom fork. I wanted both: a visual workflow inside VS Code that works with any LLM I choose. So I built Caramelo. What Caramelo Does Caramelo is a VS Code extension that gives you a complete visual UI for spec-driven development: 1. Connect Any LLM — Including Your Corporate Proxy Click a preset, enter credentials, done. No CLI tools required.