Tips and Tricks

Quick tips to help you get the most out of VJSP.

• Drag VJSP into the Secondary Sidebar so you can view Explorer, Search, Source Control, and other panels simultaneously.

• When VJSP is in a sidebar separate from the File Explorer, you can drag files directly from the Explorer into the chat window—even multiple files at once. Just hold the Shift key after you start dragging the files.

• If you’re not using MCP, disable it in Settings → MCP Servers to significantly reduce the size of system prompts.

• To maintain the execution effectiveness of Custom Modes, restrict the file types they are allowed to edit.

• If you encounter an input length and max tokens exceed context limit error, recover by deleting messages, rolling back to a historical checkpoint, or temporarily switching to a long-context-window model to process the current message.

• In general, choose your Max Tokens setting for reasoning models thoughtfully. Every token you allocate consumes space that could otherwise store conversation history. Consider using high Max Tokens / Max Thinking Tokens settings only in modes like Architect and Debug, and keep Code mode at 16k max tokens or lower.

• If you want to create a custom mode tailored to a specific type of task—and there’s a real job posting describing that role—you can instruct the Code mode: Create a custom mode based on the job requirements in @[url].

• For even greater development efficiency, create multiple copies of your code repository and run VJSP instances in parallel (conflicts can be resolved using standard Git tools, following the same logic as human-developer conflict resolution).

• When using Debug mode, ask VJSP to "Start a new task in Debug mode with all necessary context required for resolution" so the debugging process uses its own context window without polluting the main task.

• To manage large files and reduce context/resource usage, adjust the File Read Auto-Truncation Threshold setting. This controls how many lines of a file are read at once. Lower values can improve performance when handling very large files but may require more read operations. You can find this setting under Context in VJSP Settings.