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The New GitBook
✓ verifiedFreemium
Documentation platform for publishing accurate, AI-ready docs sites, with Git sync and an MCP server for AI tools.
👁 653K/mo♥ 2.9K
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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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GitLoop
✓ verifiedFree trial
AI codebase assistant that chats with your repos to search, debug, review PRs, and generate docs and unit tests.
👁 11K/mo♥ 2.7K
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✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source AI coding assistant offering autocomplete and chat in IDEs; the company was acquired by Cursor.
👁 775K/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Free trial available
No public pricing
No public pricing
Free trial available
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Publish structured documentation sites
- ✦Git sync for docs-as-code workflows
- ✦AI setup agent to build and import docs
- ✦GitBook MCP server for AI access
- ✦Enterprise controls
- ✦Free tier to start
- ✦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
- ✦Chat with your repositories
- ✦Natural-language codebase search
- ✦Fast code indexing
- ✦AI pull-request and commit review
- ✦Automated documentation generation
- ✦AI unit-test generation
- ✦Open-source AI code assistant
- ✦Customizable autocomplete
- ✦In-editor AI chat
- ✦Community-built coding agent
Use cases
- →Publish product and API documentation
- →Maintain docs-as-code with Git sync
- →Make docs consumable by AI assistants
- →Import existing docs into a hosted site
- →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
- →Onboard new developers to a codebase
- →Resolve bugs faster
- →Generate docs and tests automatically
- →Review pull requests with AI
- →Get AI code completions while coding
- →Ask questions about code in the editor
- →Build on an open-source coding-agent foundation
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