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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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✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source AI coding assistant offering autocomplete and chat in IDEs; the company was acquired by Cursor.
775K visits/mo
Pricing
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Starter: $29 /month
Pro: $59 /month
Elite Supporter: $399 /month
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
- ✦Open-source AI code assistant
- ✦Customizable autocomplete
- ✦In-editor AI chat
- ✦Community-built coding agent
- ✦AI-driven design generation
- ✦Custom design creation
- ✦Support for apps, websites, NFTs, and more
- ✦Future auto code generation
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
- →Get AI code completions while coding
- →Ask questions about code in the editor
- →Build on an open-source coding-agent foundation
- →Generate designs for websites, apps, NFTs, dashboards, and widgets.
- →Create NFT artwork, design, and variations.
- →Convert custom design mockups into code using Next.js + React.
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