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AI coding assistant that understands your entire codebase

Cody is an AI-powered coding assistant developed by Sourcegraph for software developers.

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About Cody by Sourcegraph

Cody is an AI coding assistant that helps developers write, understand, and debug code by leveraging context from their entire codebase. It integrates with popular code editors and provides code completions, explanations, and answers to coding questions.

Cody is an AI-powered coding assistant developed by Sourcegraph that helps software developers write, understand, and maintain code more efficiently. Unlike generic AI coding tools, Cody is designed to understand the context of your entire codebase, allowing it to provide more accurate and relevant assistance. The tool integrates with popular code editors including VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, and Neovim, providing features such as intelligent code completions, code explanations, bug detection, and the ability to answer questions about specific codebases. Cody can generate code snippets, explain complex functions, suggest improvements, and help developers navigate large codebases. Cody is primarily targeted at individual developers and development teams working on software projects of varying sizes. It supports multiple programming languages and can be used across different types of software development workflows. The tool is available in both free and paid tiers, with enterprise features available for larger organizations. As part of Sourcegraph's broader code intelligence platform, Cody differentiates itself in the AI coding assistant market by emphasizing codebase-aware assistance rather than just general code generation. This approach aims to provide more contextually relevant suggestions and reduce the time developers spend understanding and working with existing code.

Features

AI

  • Auto-edit

    Suggests code changes by analyzing cursor movements and typing, proposing contextual modifications based on cursor position and recent changes after at least one character edit.

  • Chat

    Chat directly with AI to ask questions about your code, generate code, and edit code, with context from your open file and repository, plus the ability to add specific files, symbols, remote repositories, or other non-code artifacts via @.

  • Code Completions and Edits

    Provides inline code completions and code edits directly within the editor to help developers write code faster.

  • Debug Code

    Identifies and fixes errors in your code using debugging capabilities and autocomplete suggestions to accelerate the debugging process.

  • Multiple LLM Support

    Supports all the latest LLMs, allowing developers to use the most powerful models available for chat and code assistance.

Automation

  • Prompts

    Automate key tasks in your workflow with premade and customizable prompts that can be built, saved, and shared with your team.

Core

  • Code Search Compatibility

    Works alongside Sourcegraph Code Search, enabling a Cody chat interface accessible directly from search query results, repositories, and files.

  • Cody CLI

    Provides a command-line interface option to run Cody outside of an IDE directly from the terminal.

  • Context from Local and Remote Codebases

    Uses Sourcegraph's advanced Search API to pull context from both local and remote codebases, including APIs, symbols, and usage patterns across the entire codebase.

Integration

  • Code Host Integration

    Integrates with codehosts like GitHub and GitLab to provide repository-level context for AI assistance.

  • IDE Integration

    Connects seamlessly with VS Code, JetBrains, and Visual Studio via dedicated extensions, as well as a web app and CLI option.

Security

  • Context Filters

    Allows ignoring selected repositories from chat and autocomplete results, giving control over what context your codebase uses.

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    Sourcegraph

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