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Sherpa Coder
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VS Code extension letting developers chat with their own custom OpenAI assistants without leaving the editor.
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Coder
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Self-hosted cloud development environments and AI-agent governance, letting enterprises run coding agents on their own infrastructure.
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Pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
Community: $0 (open-source, self-hosted, unlimited workspaces)
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Fast tensor operations
- ✦Differentiable tensors for gradient-based optimization
- ✦Network connectivity
- ✦Integration with Bun and Flashlight
- ✦Support for GPU computation with CUDA (Linux) and CPU computation (macOS)
- ✦in-editor chat with OpenAI assistants
- ✦workspace source-code context sharing
- ✦support for custom, user-defined assistants
- ✦secure management of the user's OpenAI account
- ✦Self-hosted workspaces with desktop and web IDEs
- ✦Coder Agents run coding agents on isolated infrastructure
- ✦AI Governance gateway for LLM usage control
- ✦SSO (OpenID Connect) and role/group sync
- ✦Audit logging and resource quotas
- ✦Multi-organization access controls
- ✦High availability and workspace proxies
Use cases
- →Creating and manipulating datasets
- →Training small machine learning models
- →Implementing advanced training and inference logic
- →Building applications that require tensor computations
- →getting coding help without switching out of VS Code
- →using a personalized OpenAI assistant tuned to a project
- →quick in-editor Q&A while writing code
- →Standardize developer environments
- →Run AI coding agents securely on-prem
- →Enforce governance and compliance
- →Cut VDI costs
- →Speed up developer onboarding
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