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Sherpa Coder
✓ verifiedFree
VS Code extension letting developers chat with their own custom OpenAI assistants without leaving the editor.
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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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Shopify AI Toolkit
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Free official toolkit that wires Claude Code, Cursor and similar AI coding tools into Shopify's docs, schemas and CLI for app building.
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Anima
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI design-to-code tool that converts Figma designs or cloned websites into HTML/React and builds apps with vibe coding.
👁 321K/mo♥ 1.3K
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Free: $0/mo (5 code generations/day, 5 imports)
Enterprise: from $500/mo billed annually (SSO, SLAs)
Core features
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- ✦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
- ✦Open-source AI code assistant
- ✦Customizable autocomplete
- ✦In-editor AI chat
- ✦Community-built coding agent
- ✦One-command plugin install for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code and more
- ✦Bundled Shopify documentation and GraphQL API schemas for agents
- ✦Built-in code validation against Shopify's implementation rules
- ✦Store execute capability so an agent can act on a real Shopify store via CLI
- ✦Optional granular install of individual agent skills
- ✦Local Dev MCP server option requiring no authentication
- ✦Figma-to-code (HTML/React)
- ✦Clone any or private website to code
- ✦AI website and app builder
- ✦Figma agent (Buddy) and design agent
- ✦Anima MCP server and API
- ✦Adobe XD support
Use cases
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- →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
- →Get AI code completions while coding
- →Ask questions about code in the editor
- →Build on an open-source coding-agent foundation
- →Scaffolding and building Shopify apps with an AI coding assistant
- →Validating app code against Shopify's platform rules before shipping
- →Letting an agent manage a Shopify store through natural-language CLI commands
- →Connecting Shopify's developer docs directly into an editor's AI chat
- →Converting Figma designs to code
- →Cloning sites as starting points
- →Building web apps with AI
- →Automating design-to-code in dev workflows
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