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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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CodebaseChat
✓ verifiedFreemium
Connects Git repos to answer plain-English questions about your code with file references and dependency context.
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Google Opal
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Google Labs experiment for building and sharing AI mini-apps from natural-language prompts, no coding required.
2.1M visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Starter: $0 (1 repo, 50 questions/mo)
Pro: $12/mo (10 repos, unlimited questions)
Team: $49/mo (unlimited repos, SSO)
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦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
- ✦Natural-language search across a codebase
- ✦Architecture explanations and dependency graphs
- ✦Bug hunter that traces issues across files
- ✦AI code review before opening a PR
- ✦Automatic documentation generation
- ✦Multi-repo support via OAuth
- ✦Build AI mini-apps from natural-language prompts
- ✦Visual editor for prompt/tool workflows
- ✦Share created apps with others
- ✦No-code AI app prototyping
Use cases
- →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
- →Onboarding new engineers faster
- →Answering questions about a codebase
- →Understanding how components connect
- →Finding and diagnosing bugs
- →Generating documentation from code
- →Prototyping an AI workflow quickly
- →Sharing a custom AI mini-app
- →Automating a task with chained prompts
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