Auto Import Plus: a Rust daemon that fixes auto-import in your TypeScript/Python/Java monorepo

The problem it solves

Install

newdlops.vscode-auto-import

cargo build --release --locked

Corporate / offline machines: first activation needs access to static.rust-lang.org and crates.io. If those are blocked, pre-install Rust manually and make cargo available on the PATH before opening VS Code. 1

Windows: you may need Microsoft C++ Build Tools for the native C dependencies used by the tree-sitter bindings.

How suggestions work — four languages, one index

score = prefix_match_weight × 10
      + last_used_recency × 2
      + path_depth_penalty (−0.5 × depth)
      + is_default_export × 1
      + re_export_penalty (−0.3)

// named
import { UserAccount } from './models/user';

// default
import ApiClient from './api/client';

// type-only (when autoImport.typescript.preferTypeImports = "always")
import type { UserId } from './types';

# direct module symbol
from pkg.models import Account

# barrel via __init__.py (when __init__.py has: from .sub import Account)
from pkg import Account

import com.example.service.UserService;

// inner class (autoImport.java.includeInnerClasses must be true)
import com.example.model.Outer.Inner;

Performance benchmark

Useful settings

{
  // Languages to index (default: all four)
  "autoImport.languages": ["typescript", "javascript", "python", "java"],

// Start suggesting after the first character (default: 1)
  "autoImport.minPrefixLength": 1,

// Prefer "import type" where possible
  "autoImport.typescript.preferTypeImports": "auto", // "auto" | "always" | "never"

// Include Java inner classes in the index
  "autoImport.java.includeInnerClasses": false,

// How much disk space the cache may use
  "autoImport.cache.maxDiskMB": 100
}

Known limits

• VS Code only. No JetBrains, no Neovim, no other editors.
• Four languages only. Go, Rust, C#, Ruby, PHP, and C/C++ are not supported.
• Not an LSP replacement. The extension adds import suggestions; it does not provide type checking, hover types, go-to-definition, or signature help. It is designed to coexist with Pylance, the Java Extension Pack, and VS Code's built-in TypeScript server — running at lower priority and deduplicating any symbol that the built-in already suggests. 4
• Single-root workspace only. Multi-root workspaces (VS Code's .code-workspace files) are not supported in the current version.
• Several features are not documented as supported: TypeScript paths aliases from tsconfig.json, dynamic import() expressions, Python import * and namespace packages, Java static import, and Maven/Gradle multi-module project layouts. Whether these work, partially work, or are silently ignored is unknown — the official docs don't address them.
• v0.1.2 and v0.1.3 have no changelog entries. The CHANGELOG documents v0.1.0 and v0.1.1 only; what changed in the two subsequent releases is not recorded. 2
• Zero community signal. No Reddit threads, no dev.to posts, no GitHub issues filed, no blog reviews as of May 21, 2026. 1 This is a one-developer project with bus factor 1.