Same flow I had. We did a few things to make the flow easier, like making it easy for Claude Desktop to open the OpenKnowledge web viewer within its own web view. Also exposing things like vector search, etc.
replyOur goal was you wouldn't need a separate IDE and to work well with the coding agent desktop apps.
But alas -- markdown files on your local machine is indeed the way for being AI friendly.
But there’s no good WYSIWIG markdown editor extension for VS code.
replyWell there's quite a few options. The most popular I think is also open source (Markdown for Humans). Not sure what disqualifies it as "good" to you
replyOur bar was "Notion-grade", i.e. drag and drop blocks, slash commands, select to highlight/bold, etc.
replyI don't think I'd seen an extension that does that. It was a technically very hard problem, rich text editors usually use a lossy intermediary format (e.g. prosemirror).