diff --git a/.vscode/settings.json b/.vscode/settings.json
index f92e9fdb..28fac4fe 100644
--- a/.vscode/settings.json
+++ b/.vscode/settings.json
@@ -10,5 +10,16 @@
   "coverage-gutters.coverageFileNames": [
     "bazel-out/_coverage/_coverage_report.dat"
   ],
-  "coverage-gutters.ignoredPathGlobs": "**/{node_modules,venv,.venv,vendor,bazel-bin,bazel-out,bazel-testlogs}/**"
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+  "coverage-gutters.ignoredPathGlobs": "**/{node_modules,venv,.venv,vendor,bazel-bin,bazel-out,bazel-testlogs}/**",
+  "[python]": {
+    "diffEditor.ignoreTrimWhitespace": false,
+    "gitlens.codeLens.symbolScopes": [
+      "!Module"
+    ],
+    "editor.defaultFormatter": "charliermarsh.ruff",
+    "editor.formatOnType": true,
+    "editor.formatOnSave": false,
+    "editor.wordBasedSuggestions": "off"
+  },
+  "python.defaultInterpreterPath": "yaku-apps-python/3rdparty/.venv/bin/python"
+}
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e468add8..818d3688 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,2 +1,25 @@
 [tool.pyright]
-include = ["yaku-apps-python"]
\ No newline at end of file
+include = ["yaku-apps-python"]
+extraPaths = [
+  "yaku-apps-python/packages/autopilot-utils/src",
+  "yaku-apps-python/packages/autopilot-utils/tests/app_multi_evaluator/src",
+  "yaku-apps-python/packages/autopilot-utils/tests/app_subprocess_steps/src",
+  "yaku-apps-python/packages/autopilot-utils/tests/app_single_evaluator/src",
+  "yaku-apps-python/packages/autopilot-utils/tests/app_multi_command/src",
+  "yaku-apps-python/packages/autopilot-utils/tests/app_chained_multi_evaluator/src",
+  "yaku-apps-python/packages/autopilot-utils/tests/demo_app/src",
+  "yaku-apps-python/packages/autopilot-utils/tests/app_super_simple_evaluator/src",
+  "yaku-apps-python/packages/autopilot-utils/tests/app_single_command/src",
+  "yaku-apps-python/apps/splunk-fetcher/src",
+  "yaku-apps-python/apps/sharepoint-fetcher/src",
+  "yaku-apps-python/apps/papsr/src",
+  "yaku-apps-python/apps/sharepoint/src",
+  "yaku-apps-python/apps/sharepoint-evaluator/src",
+  "yaku-apps-python/apps/pdf-signature-evaluator/src",
+  "yaku-apps-python/apps/filecheck/src",
+  "yaku-apps-python/apps/artifactory-fetcher/src",
+  "yaku-apps-python/apps/excel-tools/src",
+  "yaku-apps-python/apps/security-scanner/src",
+  "yaku-apps-python/apps/pex-tool/src",
+
+]
diff --git a/yaku-apps-python/README.md b/yaku-apps-python/README.md
index 1c8e3572..10bf4434 100644
--- a/yaku-apps-python/README.md
+++ b/yaku-apps-python/README.md
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
   2. or use <https://philuvarov.io/bazel-can-be-ruff/>
   3. or use Aspect rules: <https://github.com/aspect-build/rules_lint>
 * How can we debug with VS Code or other remote debugging tools?
-* Can we somehow ignore the `BUILD` files from pants?
 
 ## Development instructions
 
@@ -59,3 +58,36 @@ You will find the coverage report in <../htmlcov/index.html>.
 ```bash
 bazel build //yaku-apps-python/packages/autopilot-utils:wheel
 ```
+
+## IDE Integration (VS Code)
+
+You need to tell the IDE where all the different Python packages are. This can be done in the `pyproject.toml` in
+the root workspace folder.
+
+Just add the paths received from `find yaku-apps-python -type d -name src` to the `extraPaths` list in the `pyproject.toml`.
+
+## Extra virtual environment for VS Code auto-completion and linting
+
+As VS Code doesn't know about the Python dependencies declared in Bazel for the different packages,
+we can instead create a virtual environment with all the dependencies installed.
+
+Then, we can point VS Code to this virtual environment for auto-completion and linting.
+
+```bash
+cd yaku-apps-python/3rdparty/
+python3 -m venv .venv
+.venv/bin/pip install -r requirements_lock.txt
+```
+
+Then, in VS Code, you can select this virtual environment as the Python interpreter.
+
+If you have `uv` installed, you can do this of course with `uv`:
+
+```bash
+cd yaku-apps-python/3rdparty/
+uv venv create
+uv pip install -r requirements_lock.txt
+```
+
+Note: I got a build error in the pip install step, due to some build issue with pyyaml 6.0.
+Perhaps other (older) versions of pyyaml work better.