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GitLoop
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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
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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.
Pricing
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Free trial available
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Core features
- ✦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
- ✦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
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Use cases
- →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
- →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
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